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VAR and Referees. Stupid decisions (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by HakuChikara83@alien.top to c/talk@soccer.forum

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Football is finished! I love watching football, it’s my passion (as well as playing but age means I can’t as much nowadays). I watch about 7/8 games at the weekend, mostly premier league but also LaLiga, Serie A and Bundesliga. Then during the week I watch the European cup and Europa league. But the refs and the ridiculous rules are ruining the game. Last night in the Fulham game and tonight watching Newcastle vs PSG the refs and VAR have given the stupidest penalty decisions. I’m really starting to lose my love for the game. I don’t care who won or drew the game but the integrity of the game has gone. I hate it and it’s just been getting worse season after season. This is probably more of a rant but I just feel let down by the game I love to watch

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[–] TouristTricky@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve been saying before it was even implemented that VAR is a classic “solution in search of a problem”.

OK, refs occasionally got things wrong. We lived with it. It gave us something to discuss and argue with one another.

Football has always been a wonderful human endeavor and humans are fallible.

Who in their right mind would trade the flow of the game, the celebration of a goal, for perfection in offsides or foul calls?

And of course we haven’t got perfection. There’s never perfection. Perfection is unattainable.

VAR must go.

[–] EliachTCQ@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You got short memory mate. Before var the discussions after bad ref calls were fucking endless. Nobody celebrated humans being fallible lol

[–] Organic_Chemist9678@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It was nothing like the bullshit we get now. Moaning about VAR puts me off the game more than the shit VAR decisions.

[–] TouristTricky@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t imagine anyone prefers this mess to the one we had before VAR.

We can’t celebrate goals properly. The flow of the game is constantly interrupted. The determination of calls based on millimeters and body parts is endless.

What did we get in return?

The arguments about bad calls by humans is now replaced by arguments about bad calls by humans and technology.

I’ll take the game I grew up on rather than this shambles.

[–] EliachTCQ@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I prefer correct calls being made 100% of the time. This is not the case now, but going forward VAR is the only way to do that, it just needs to be better.

[–] Honigbrottr@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol no. There were too many important games decided by human error. As a Bayern fan there come 2 examples to mind: Bayern vs Madrid 2017 and Bayern vs Dortmund 2014 cup final

Both of these were heavily influenced by massive mistakes from the referee. VAR does to many mistakes and that should be fixed. Football should be a fair game following the rules. Specially because goals are so important there cant be mistakes to either give or give not a goal.

[–] TouristTricky@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Human error is just that, human. Now we have human error amplified by technology. As I responded to someone else, I much prefer the brilliant game I grew up with to this Frankenstein monster.

Over time, bad calls even out. That’s just the laws of probability. I’m sure there are legions of other Bundesliga fans who feel hard done by calls that went in Bayern’s favor, right?

This mess hasn’t really improved anything but has cost us so much.