Originally Posted by Sir C
Seeing people discuss this nonsense as though it were actually football is possibly the most distressing aspect of it. I mean there's being football starved and then there's descending into outright perversion.
Never mind that, it's a glimpse into the VAR future. And it doesn't look great.
To be honest, VAR as it's set up at the moment seems to me to be nothing but an exercise in confirmation bias. The whole point ought surely to be to put a new set of eyes on an incident to achieve a dispassionate outcome, not to leave all the power in the hands of the on-field referee, whose view will inevitably be skewed by his (by definition) already flawed view of the incident.
The ability to appeal decisions should be given to managers or team captains (as with cricket) and limited to a number of appeals that are then lost if proved incorrect. Equally, the decision should be given to a specific video referee who can then overrule the on-field ref. This system is an appalling mess.
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