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Jeff Stelling makes it clear that he is not a fan of VAR in a clip from this weekend’s Soccer Saturday pre-show.
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Que the ‘it’s not VAR it’s the referees’ you just don’t get it can you please shut up. The games dead
So true V.A.R. is destroying football
Killing the joy of a goal is the main problem
I understand why some fans are frustrated with VAR. But they need to realise it's not the technology fault for bad decisions only the people using it. We had bad decisions before VAR. That's why UEFA had extra linesman which didn't work. So I think VAR is good but some changes are definitely needed for it.
I had my hopes up that we'd hear from Chris Kamara
They only care when it is the big teams. Nobody cared about Wolves' dissallowed goal.
“It’s the refs not the technology” said by those who’ve never been in a ground and waited 5mins for a single decision to be made, with no idea what’s actually going on. VAR & the modern offside rule, two ends of the same shitty stick.
Overhead cameras fed to a computer…no human input ..light flashes green after goal for offside decisions
VAR sometimes makes the game nice because od the tension in VAR review
You can't celebrate a goal, get it to feck
Saying we should get rid of VAR altogether because it has a few issues is so ridiculously closed minded. The fact is, VAR has overturned far more decisions correctly than incorrectly and so has had an overall positive impact. The vast majority of perceived problems with it are actually down to rule interpretation, which has nothing to do with VAR at all. Admittedly though, the offside measurement does need to be changed to give more benefit to the attackers. I think this would best be done by introducing some level of tolerance, though Arsene Wenger's proposal, which says a players is onside if any part of their body they can play the ball with is onside, may also work. Either way, this would then take into account whether a significant advantage was gained, as opposed to ruling players offside if their toe is sticking out.
I have not watched a live game of football since Iran V portual in the world cup group stage
VAR , ruined football as a watch
Goal line tech ruined a game made it all buisness
Var is ruining the game.
Honestly var is here to help but clearly the people using it need the most help
Kris Boyd is a phenomenal pundit
Can u just sew them
honestly just scrap var apart from important fixtures eg UCL knockouts/ Fa Cup semis finals and in the world cup. can’t have another chelsea vs uefalona. but certainly can’t have son crying like a baby 24/7. there’s has to be a middle ground
VAR, ruining football since 2018.
It was brought in for clear and obvious errors. The jota 1 is NOT clear and obvious. Its not var its the incompetent inept officials who are making the final decisions. Its literally destroying the game we all love. Something has to change.
Well at least he’s not being overdramatic about it
Nobody prefers the EFL Jeff it's garbage.
Something needs to change because I'm not enjoying watching football at all at the moment (and that's not solely because Arsenal are so rubbish to watch). VAR was supposed to correct clear and obvious errors – I don't understand how borderline offside decisions can fall into that category, or why the benefit of the doubt isn't given to the attacking side in such situations. It's fundamentally changing the game for the worse. Strikers have always been encouraged to play on the shoulder of the last defender and to anticipate opportunities, but now they are being penalised for being a split-second quicker than the defender and perfectly good goals are being ruled out. Look at the goal Wolves scored against Fulham last week, nobody appealed for offside, nobody saw an issue, but an excellent goal was denied because of some ridiculous lines being drawn on the screen suggesting one arm was in front of another. Whenever a referee is invited to look at the monitor it plants a seed of doubt in their mind and they begin to look for an issue that nobody spotted in the first place. VAR should solely be used for egregious incidents the referee and assistants haven't seen – off-the-ball fouls, etc. – and for everything else we should trust their judgement. Human error is part of the game; we accept it when players make occasional mistakes, why not give officials the same latitude?
if all the footballers went on strike until they removed VAR , the vast majority of fans would back them .
4 goals this weekend wrongly ruled out.
Wolves
liverpool
Man utd
west brom
It's not VAR, the cheating players have killed the beautiful game. Get that through your thick heads people.
The diving, constant delaying and dirty fouls has been ruining the game for 100 years, still alive, I think it will survive VAR which in fact addresses at least 2 of the biggest problems in the game
BTW the loudest guys, are the same ones who complain after every bad REF decision…
Only problem with VAR is the people who use it, or don't use it. And yes you can talk about the offside, but in terms of changing the rule, not removing VAR, I mean come on, does everybody has a memory of a gold fish? However many promising actions are stopped because REF don't have benefit of VAR having their back so they just wave it OFF…? How many goals are scored from clear offside positions, I'm not saying 1cm I'm saying 1m+…ref can single handedly win or lose you the game, and there's nothing he can do about because it is just so hard to judge, you can be having the best game of your life, you still loose with no fault of your own. Is that what we want?
Everyone wanted var and now it’s here they all moaning about it
people have memory of a goldfish? how come nobody remembers how many goals or possible chances were waved offside even though they were on side…
VAR is necessary. It's the incompetent officials who make the decisions that make it the problem.
Certain things like marginal offside are a huge positive, diving is still a huge negative ie Son v Man Utd, Fernandes v Aston Villa last season, Pogba v Aston Villa, Kane v Aston Villa and follow through tackles are actually pathetic now.
The technology is needed, but the officials need to look back at the rules and really understand the laws again
I hate VAR because it’s inconsistent
Sky must be losing millions of money. VAR ruins entertainment and sky sports needs entertainment let's see if money talks……..
It's the officials in charge who are ruining it
A doctor mistakenly kills a patient during a surgery. Surgery should be banned! What a ridiculous conclusion.
How do bad calls become more palatable just because it's a human ref who made it.? A human ref who we now know is EXTREMELY fallible. The rules and their implementation are the problem here, overly-wrought, out-of-touch, spirit-killing rules that are being unevenly applied.
Offside, handball, minor comings-together have all be butchered to the point where it's like we're watching a different sport. That doesn't change by doing a 180 and going back to regular old refs who we know for a fact are useless, their uselessness being one of reasons we decided we needed VAR in the first place. Love Jeff, hate his take here.
It hasnt. It killed the diving for sure. Also, 99.9% off side goals are disallowed. VAR is fine. Again the human error is making VAR looks wrong. I need fair results. VAR makes that happening.
The thing is, if Son had clipped Mctominay in the face, just before playing it to Kane to score, the Man United players would be behaving the same way and Ole wouldn't be saying any comments about his son getting food.
It's not VAR ruining the game for me, it's the dishonesty, the diving, the rolling around, I just wish referees showed a bit of common sense, I want to see a contact sport, I don't want to see grown men rolling around in agony over nothing.
Football wasn't so terrible before VAR that it was better to kill the joy of celebrating…
Rugby use it perfectly fine, as a tool at the referees disposal. Not as judge Jury and executioner
I'm sick of watching them roll around at the slightest push. Just watched a women's boxing match smashed the crap out of each other. Both stood up.
Without VAR there are way more wrong calls and the stats back it up. Stelling is a dinosaur and completely clueless! The problem are the terrible Englisch referees. VAR isnt a problem in the Bundesliga anymore for example..
Watching football religiously since the mid 80’s and I have never been so disgruntled with our beautiful game as I am right now. Var is being used in a totally awful way that’s took all the natural emotion out of the game. Keep the goal line tech and any off the ball incidents. That’s all it needs to be used for.
Not gonne lie, I turned on the tv minutes before united scored. After seeing it taken away and repettive stops mid game, I changed the channel.
It's fine in the Bundesliga
Goal line tech is the only thing worth keeping
Hang on, VAR's checking for a possible offside. Are now words embedded into footballing folklore.
The concept of rewatching things to make sure the right decisions are being made is a good idea…the problem is refs are looking and making the wrong decisions. Either the rules need to change or refs need to improve, Var should be making the game more fair not more unfair
Var should just be smarter
I don’t see how the ref doesn’t have any sense to say that it was not a McTominay foul