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I am not quite sure what you are saying. When you say 'if you have to draw a line on a screen', are you saying that the system shouldn't be drawing lines on screens, because if you are I agree with you, but this system does and that's why I say that the system is useless/not fit for purpose.
I am not arguing that some kind of video review is necessarily bad. I'm saying that this VAR system is bad. And if you defend VAR, you defend this system, not some imaginary good one that they didn't introduce.
So what needs to change is not simply 'the way it is implemented'. They need to ditch this failed system and (maybe) start again.
And if they did start again, how about this for a set of principles to adhere to...
1. Level is onside. And 'level' is not an exact science but every linesman in the world who works without VAR has to judge it, and can. Any system needs to respect that 'level is onside' rule. This one doesn't.
2. The system should be there to rule our errors that the onfield officials could reasonably/possibly have avoided. E.g. Out of sight handball goals, or punches to the kidney behind their backs. It should not be allowed to view things in a way, and at a level of accuracy that no onfield could possibly see. So no slow-mos, no zoom ins and no f*cking lines!
3. Given that it is only meant to be spotting howlers, these should not be difficult to see, and if they are difficult to spot then they're not howlers. Give them 1 minute to be sure that it's a howler and if they are not sure within 1 minute then that's it, no review.
It won't be perfect, but it will hopefully intervene about 10% of the time that it does now and it will do only what it is meant to do. And maybe we can go back to celebrating most goals in real time.
But before any of this can happen, they need to ditch the pig's ear that they are trying and failing to make a silk purse out of, because this system is not fixable.
It's the fact that a 'review' system which is intended to reduce errors actually makes its own errors (often worse ones) that really gets me. How can they not see how f*cking ridiculous that is.
That and the fact that 'level' is no longer onside.
And, of course, that it takes the edge off every single goal celebration.
The administrators are corrupt. They would rather continue with a system that is completely broken than cancel the contract, which would no doubt cost them.
Not to mention the ‘jobs for the boys’. Very many more jobs for the officials when VAR is being used that just the 4 per match otherwise.
I have been posting on here about how utterly sh*t VAR is from day one.
I wonder does anyone still support it?
The FA or PL are not going to pull the plug. It’s getting to the stage where the govt need to take the decision out of their hands.
It’s like the civil aviation authority letting faulty planes continue to fly.
The whole thing is now a complete shambles and everyone involved, particularly those who allow it to continue to ruin football matches week after week, is a disgrace. They don’t deserve to have the stewardship of football - they clearly don’t give two f*cks about the game or the fans. Either that or their all completely corrupt.
I wasn't really making a point about City. I was just my shorthand for RM's style.
I guess the point is that we're trying to play to a style that is a massive stretch for us, rather than actually playing to our strengths. And that makes mistakes far more likely.
Playing with the hand that you're dealt is a pretty good guide to most things in life.
We've lost so many points this season because of avoidable mistakes - yesterday, big time.
And you hear people say that there is nothing RM can do about individual errors on the pitch.
But RM is trying to get a team of limited quality to play like Man City.
Amazingly, they do still seem to be trying to do this - some effort after getting so little reward so far this season. They'd be forgiven for being demoralised but I don't see that.
But I do see players trying so hard to be better than they are. They are all playing on their limits and trying to do things that perhaps naturally they wouldn't be doing.
And when do we make mistakes? When we're pushing it. When we're tired, or trying to do things to quickly, or when we're trying to do something that we're just not quite good enough to do.
These mistakes are the inevitable result of a squad that is overreaching. And that's on RM.
I think Musk is crackpot but I've been sticking with X simply out of inertia.
But this week I have tick 'not interested in this' about 10 times to the same ad (I'm not ready for a care home in Yeovil) so it looks like Bluesky is the place for me.
He’s been pretty consistent tbh taking them from L2 to one pen away from the PL and the worst ever VAR decision from the greatest ever FA Cup shock and a place in the final.
This is a great idea and realistically the only way to fix VAR.
I worry though that VARDV might also make mistakes.
To be on the safe side, they should prob introduce VARDVDV at the same time.
I mean, on reflection, really it might be best to do away with the actual players and the ball completely and just bring in VARdecides-result (VARDR) and then you’d only need Garth Crooks to run it, the season could be sorted in late August and we’d all save ourselves a lot of money and stress.
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