VAR is not the problem
The issue is those who are using video assistance and making decisions without any common sense. This is a referee problem.
The incompetence at this level of the game is bad for European Football. The referees always get away with it with no repercussions. The players, the managers & the clubs will pay for their mistakes while these referees just move on to the next match.
Until the referees are held accountable for their decisions this sport is not enjoyable to watch anymore. If they find the job difficult then find someone who is capable of doing the job.
The state of refereeing now is so so bad that I t might not even be wild to speculate that this seems to be a planned execution by the referees association to discredit the use of video assistance, so the game will go back to being played the old way where their decision is the final and they don’t have to refer to a third party.
How difficult can it be to make a decision with the help of VAR ? It has to be such a useful a tool. It makes no sense as to why it’s being implemented so poorly.
I honestly would be in full support of AI to replace these humans who seem completely incapable of using their common sense.
It’s hard to justify talking time to watch this sport when someone’s lack of common sense can completely ruin the competition & fun in football.
I believe the problem with VAR is that it STILL places the ultimate decision on the shoulders of one person and one person, under serious pressure will regularly make mistakes.
I actually think you would be better off having eleven lower league referees all being fed footage in confined booths where they are given ten seconds to make a call on what they are seeing. It takes the pressure off because it comes down to a vote, it speeds the process because they have only a short time to make a call and I guarantee eleven lower league refs will vote out the correct decision far more regularly than one ‘elite’ ref who’s permanently shitting himself.
It’s pretty simple stats and a bit of behavioural science in the end. I’m not sure why they have all this tech and still place all the decision making on one critical point of failure.
If the majority in an eleven man panel can’t make the right call it was probably too close to really matter that much.