Little consolation to Nottingham Forest but at least PGMO has acknowledged the referee was wrong to allow Matheus Cunha’s goal for Manchester United after Bryan Mbeumo clearly handled. He trapped the ball, controlled it.
VAR intervened, encouraged the referee to look at the monitor and consider overturning his wrong decision, but the referee stuck with his decision. VAR was not the problem. VAR recommended the goal be disallowed. Fortunately, there was nothing riding on the game. Otherwise, the game could possibly have been looking at a legal dispute.
@henrywinter How about this as a subtle change that would change the
Emphasis and have an immediate effect.
1 The ref is the ref. We don’t hear from VAR
2 We then ONLY hear from VAR if and when they are 100% sure the ref has made an error. Then VAR calls it. And that’s final
No discussion
@jimig79@adamsummerton Well totally agree about your ineptitude comment.
But it’ll shine a light and that’d hopefully be the start of a long road to recovery
And it’s basically back to refs r reffing and VAR STFU
I don’t like challenges - just more delays and arguing
Still subjective
@oliverswiftx3@adamsummerton I don't think that will ever see the light of day because it will just highlight how inept most refs are. I say completely remove it from it being a tool for them and give the managers 3 var challenges per game.
I really hope there can be a sensible discussion about whether football moves away from VAR
It’s been a number of years now, these aren’t teething troubles anymore, this is an addition to the game that currently takes more away than it gives, with no prospect of that changing.
Yes, there’ll be more things missed, but things like spontaneity & flow contribute hugely to what makes football so great - the trade off, arguably, hasn’t been worth it.
We still get human error, and always will - it just takes a lot longer with VAR
@adamsummerton That is to say no conservation.
No looking at screens
The VAR with all the benefits of slo mos and different angles
Then it’s easy to see who’s made the call
Watch the number of VAR interventions dramatically fall….