Officiating

[ziggys_human]

i genuinely feel it has never been worse and VAR has long enough had its chance to iron out its flaws. didn't like it to begin with and its only served to prove itself a nonsense. its premise was to overturn obvious errors, but it rarely does anything of the sort...quite the opposite. let's take football back to where it should always be. the good old days where 'the referee's a w#*ker'.
bookings, sendings off, offsides, foul corners (never noticed), handballs, the list is endless of VAR howlers. the technology is only as hopeless as those overseeing it. it's now become ineptitude by committee. not to mention ruining the joy of the moment.

football is the people's game, but were we ever consulted?

 

[Wise old Bee]

It can be tiresome because as soon as a goal goes in I automatically look at the ref to see if he has his hand cupping his ear. There may have been some errors but that is a small price to pay when you consider the poor decision making pre-VAR. I would extend it to take timekeeping out of the hands of refs and have a clock which stops when play does.

 

[SmiffyBee]

i genuinely feel it has never been worse and VAR has long enough had its chance to iron out its flaws. didn't like it to begin with and its only served to prove itself a nonsense. its premise was to overturn obvious errors, but it rarely does anything of the sort...quite the opposite. let's take football back to where it should always be. the good old days where 'the referee's a w#*ker'.
bookings, sendings off, offsides, foul corners (never noticed), handballs, the list is endless of VAR howlers. the technology is only as hopeless as those overseeing it. it's now become ineptitude by committee. not to mention ruining the joy of the moment.

football is the people's game, but were we ever consulted?

VAR is only here because fans and managers and to an extent players at the top level were complaining about refs.

So now we have big refereeing decisions checked and still the same fans, managers and to an extent players are moaning.

The refs and the laws haven't really changed....I wonder what the real issue is ? ?