As someone who was against VAR from the start, I’m pleased to see someone as high profile as Lineker come out and admit he was wrong about it and has changed his mind. Fingers crossed this continues and we can start to move towards getting rid of it.
Seeing as we have seen successful and fairly painless implementations of VAR (such as World Cup 2018) it seems to me the issue is (as always) more a matter of the quality of the referees.
I agree with you. The inconsistencies also cause a lot of confusion and delay imo. To me at least, it hasn’t made the game worse to watch at all
PL has made impossible for VAR to be successful:
They simply don’t pay them enough so the good talent drops out in the grassroots level.
Then they also have same idiots on the pitch and in the booth instead of seperate ones.
And then they also have so many restrictions on what VAR can and can’t do.
I don’t agree that it was painless at 2018, it was IMO just as annoying, inconsistent and intrusive as anywhere else.
I think most people agree we need to significantly lower VAR usage, but I don’t think it should be gotten rid of completely. American Baseball allows for 1 challenge per team, per game. If the challenge is successful, then they get their challenge back and can challenge again. If not, that’s it for them.
I think something like that is probably the way to go.
I really hope they don’t introduce a challenge system. It might suit some of the American sports, but would be another step in the wrong direction for VAR in football (soccer). It already takes long enough to make a decision at times. Imagine after all that, the decision is challenged.
Yeah, agreed. This whole “challenges” thing they like in America is bullshit. It’s just another distraction, it adds complexity and, like you said, would add even more time in the decision making. Just invest in improving refereeing ffs.
I think challenges work fine in sports that naturally stop anyway - tennis, NFL, etc.
Not football though.
Agree about improving refereeing, that’s a better approach IMO.
I think we will soon get semi automatic offside calls. Which will be good as decisions will take less time to be made.
My issue with VAR is the inconsistency on every other decision. We always knew referees have teams like like more than others, seems like VAR just makes all the favoritism worst
