VAR is not the problem
The issue is those who are using video assistance and making decisions without any common sense. This is a referee problem.
The incompetence at this level of the game is bad for European Football. The referees always get away with it with no repercussions. The players, the managers & the clubs will pay for their mistakes while these referees just move on to the next match.
Until the referees are held accountable for their decisions this sport is not enjoyable to watch anymore. If they find the job difficult then find someone who is capable of doing the job.
The state of refereeing now is so so bad that I t might not even be wild to speculate that this seems to be a planned execution by the referees association to discredit the use of video assistance, so the game will go back to being played the old way where their decision is the final and they don’t have to refer to a third party.
How difficult can it be to make a decision with the help of VAR ? It has to be such a useful a tool. It makes no sense as to why it’s being implemented so poorly.
I honestly would be in full support of AI to replace these humans who seem completely incapable of using their common sense.
It’s hard to justify talking time to watch this sport when someone’s lack of common sense can completely ruin the competition & fun in football.
Nah its not the officials either its the actual rules of football. Far too many vague rules that can be interpreted differently to other people. Football really needs to get far better terminology in the rules and take away subjective much as possible. Like the joelinton foul last week I think it should go something like this. Did he put hands on opponents? Yes. did he impede or prevent opponent from getting the ball? Yes. Did his action effect the situation? Yes. Did he use too much force? Yes. So from that I can only take that to be a foul so moving forward we know that is a foul and why it’s a foul. Follow this process or similar each time and we will start getting more consistent decisions given. At the moment refs basically just make up there mind as they go along and 1 red will think it’s a foul and the other won’t. Football needs to change to rules so that there is simply no debating things like putting 2 hands on a defenders neck in his 6 yard box. I mean it’s so obvious that it’s a foul yet actual professionals in the world of football somehow think its OK to do this.