A debate is currently occurring about if it would be better to scrap VAR now of risk people turning off the sport due to time delays and bizarre decisions VAR Is making.
I think what gets lost in the VAR debate is the fact that there were conversations about referees every week before VAR existed. Peoples memory seems to be conveniently short but the amount of howlers refs made took up plenty of airtime 5 years ago
Match fixers dream. It will be around forever.
Yeah, it’s extremely hard for me to celebrate a goal because I want to make sure the offside flag stays down
no. if anything it’s increasing viewership with how much people talk about it
Stop putting the beautiful game into disrepute. /s
The real problem is the ref
Unfortunately not because people will always tune in to watch their team play but it will likely boost the viewership of better leagues such as the Bundesliga as people do still want to watch proper, unadulterated, football.
VAR is literally just a video replay of an incident from various angles, they have been around for years and available for TV viewers and is not some shiny new tech that has been rolled out and causing issues.
Officials are looking at these replays of an incident to determine the right call as part of the process, and these incompetent and sometimes seemingly corruption officials can’t seem to get this right consistently yet.
I hate VAR, if we remove it we could sympathize with bad calls due to human error again.
Im sorry, now we have this , we can see the post game is more about lines, camera angles and the fine msrgins of the rules.
Use Var for off the ball issues and move on.
Dome fresh faces in the PGMOL would do wonders.
Why are there no female refs?
Toss it in the heap.
People need to remember what it was like without VAR. With the modern internet, the PL would look way worse. Also those goals that went over the line but weren’t called
You wait 23 years for your club to get promoted back to the PL only to find out it’s all a big bag of wank.
I don’t think so. More controversies generate bigger following. And the football level is so high.
VAR is not the problem, VAR is objectively good, literally enforcing the rules of the game. The problem is it seems refs can decide on a whim whether or not to use it. It should just always be there in the background.
No, this is a popular clueless internet fan thought. Any armchair fan willing to turn away from the game because of var is no loss to the sport anyway.