I am so relieved...

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VAR will not be in use for our games.

Linespeople and referees will make mistakes, I'll shout at them. Mostly they will be right after all.

But I dont need VAR in the football I watch.

GLT fine, VAR, not.

[trevor1946]

Sorry ian not with you on this one,like tennis and cricket it can enhance the game and make decisions 90% better,but it should be on the big screen and the 4th official having his own screen and making a final decision it has to be part of the game.with the fans involved, Not a game stopper with everyone in the dark.
Referees are making to many mistakes and replays on televised games make them look inadequate.I haven't got over the blatant offside and handball against Portsmouth
shocking decision.He and the linesman would never ref a professional game again if i was in charge,it just shows what effect it has on clubs players and fans.
And for me the total cock up of simple replay is to maintain errors in the game, football today represents vast amounts of money hanging on results.
And a simple replay is all we ask for

[NobodyGood]

We don't have a big screen 😁

[bennyboy]

If we are looking at the womens world cup then that has been farcical, a joke in fact. It's as if the line officials have been told not to make the tight decisions and leave it to VAR, after all there are around 4 of them looking at the screens. All the decisions have it seems is delay the game immensely, I think it was stated yesterday the game between England and Cameroon added 15 mins with all the nonsense going off.
Having said all this it's been refreshing to watch womens football for.....
No faking injury, no diving, no kicking the ball away, no time wasting, no arguing with the refs (Cameroon an exception) just getting on with the game, VAR has been a hindrance not a help.

[insideleft]

VAR all the way for me.
Football has a lot to learn from rugby and cricket.
The most furious I have ever been at a football game was the play off game against Cambridge Utd 2007-2008 in The Conference. Possibly the best Albion side I’ve seen. Poor refereeing cost us promotion to the Football League that season and I believe cost the referee his career.
VAR for me. I’m not watching the ladies games but gather there have been problems?

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In the Scotland game there was a (marginal) foul in the penalty area that the referee did not give. VAR intervened a penalty was given and scored after a VAR instructed retake.

There was no injury. The time elapsed between the initial foul and the penalty being scored, 7 mins 25 seconds.

[bennyboy]

Having said what I have about the womens world cup the refereeing has been poor in some matches and coupled with VAR it's not worked very well at all.
The mens game has better referees and at least most top refs have had to deal with VAR, so hopefully it will be a better viewing experience for those leagues/matches which have it.

[otep]

I was quite partial to VAR when it was first introduced. I liked the fact that it added a layer of intrigue and suspense and crucially, it would get some important decisions right and justice would be done.

There was a moment recently watching a Women's World Cup game when I started to get annoyed by it. It had become tedious. It was taking far too long. Furthermore, surprisingly some of the decisions still didn't seem correct after much time was invested in a review. The thought crossed my mind that this could potentially ruin the game.

I hope that you are right BennyBoy when you suggest that the referees at the Women's World plus VAR is a poor combination.

VAR could be a bit better if some of the football rules that underpin it were changed. Handball in the penalty area is just one example.

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I’m a big fan of VAR. Football is often boring and VAR makes it interesting.

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Jun 24, 2019 10:24:30 GMT ianmcgibbon said:

In the Scotland game there was a (marginal) foul in the penalty area that the referee did not give. VAR intervened a penalty was given and scored after a VAR instructed retake.

There was no injury. The time elapsed between the initial foul and the penalty being scored, 7 mins 25 seconds.

sports entertainment. That is what it is. Watch lower league football if you want it “real”.

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Jun 24, 2019 18:31:17 GMT otep said:

I was quite partial to VAR when it was first introduced. I liked the fact that it added a layer of intrigue and suspense and crucially, it would get some important decisions right and justice would be done.

There was a moment recently watching a Women's World Cup game when I started to get annoyed by it. It had become tedious. It was taking far too long. Furthermore, surprisingly some of the decisions still didn't seem correct after much time was invested in a review. The thought crossed my mind that this could potentially ruin the game.

I hope that you are right BennyBoy when you suggest that the referees at the Women's World plus VAR is a poor combination.

VAR could be a bit better if some of the football rules that underpin it were changed. Handball in the penalty area is just one example.

The change to the handball law was made prior to this world cup. That law change we will have to put up with.

The change to the goal kick law is welcome though.