TVC15 wrote:Embarrassingly poor response to what has been a disaster this season. In my 45 years of following football I can not remember so much negative feeling about the game as we had this year.
It’s not just VAR to blame though - the rules for offside and handball are also to blame. For offside it needs changing for me to either daylight between players or don’t use VAR for offside given we are ruling out some great goals for fractions. Handball rules are in a mess. How can it be fair that a team is awarded a penalty when you might handle the ball accidentally on the edge of the area when someone has wacked a ball at you from 2 yards and your hands don’t happen to be down your side ?!!
Personally I am up for ex players being involved in the VAR rulings - they can be taught the rules if they don’t know them but more importantly it’s about the interpretation of those rules. Or alternatively do not give so much power to the referees - they are making decisions to cover their own and their fellow colleagues backs and Swarbrick / Reilly etc who are in charge are ex referees who are part of this. They are ruining the game and the authorities are facilitating it by giving them this power - we should not be surprised as there is nothing more than most referees love than more power and influence to feed their Clatenburg style egos.
This response to communicate better to the crowds is pathetic after the carnage we have seen this season. If the clubs and managers are behind this response then the relationship between fans and clubs is going to deteriorate even quicker than it has in recent years.
And it’s not just about fans who turn up to the game and how small a percentage of revenue this is for clubs. If VAR carries on like this there will be less fans watching football and subscribing to sky and BT etc
Agree, TVC15.
Offside rule needs amending/clarifying to now fit in with the new technology. If technology is "split second timing" and measurement to decimals of a centimetre, then I suggest:
1) offside only measured by reference to players' feet, both defender's and attacker's;
2) position of those feet exactly at the time the ball is played forward by attacker's team mate;
So, technology firstly establishes exactly the point in time when the ball is played forward - and shows this time with tv picture on big screen; then technology shows where the defender's feet were and the attacker's feet were. If any point on attacker's feet - at this exact time - is nearer goal line than second nearest defender, then it's offside.
If this was the rule we could even take this decision away from lino, just allow the technology to monitor for these situations, just like technology monitors if the ball has crossed the goal line.
I'd also get rid of "there was contact so player is entitled to go down" idea. Let's define what a trip is, what a shirt grab is - which should both be fouls - and what is contact, because it's a contact sport, but contact is not a foul. Maybe we can get the technology to sort out these decisions....
And, let's send all the officials back to "ref school" if they believe that the "severity of the injury" means a yellow card should be a red. Those guys are only a tiny step away from saying that the guy who took the shot which Loris dropped in his goal and injured his arm in the process should have been red carded.
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