iaatpies
Well-Known Member
Match going fans hate it. Most, but not all, fans who can't attend matches hate it.
Is it to be part of the switch to pleasing worldwide armchair audience? Is it football as a Saturday night entertainment show?
It's already, within a year, nothing to do with checking clear and obvious errors. It's also utterly random : see Villa penalty claim at Emirates.
I haven't even touched on the farce of goals and emotions undone by millimetres, reviewed 10-15 times.
What is it supposed to be doing to improve football?
VAR is designed to appease the playstation generation who can't deal with the fact that football isnt as certain as the computer game they play in their bedroom and that sometimes there can be controversy in games.
Referees get things wrong. Strikers take advantage of marginal offside decisions. Sometimes a penalty decision, either given or refused, is hotly disputed. It's part of football and removing all of it and making the game controlled to the nth degree is draining the eternal soul of the game.