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.
The thing they all would be independent. Thats how it is done in other sports. You don’t have refs talking to each other and they all arrive to a decision independently. That way you negate any biases. The only person that should be talking on field ref is the person who is an intermediatory between var and ref.
Well its either that, or you don’t have the on field ref making the decisions. Then it becomes var being the ref. On field ref is just there to enforce what var says. If it still is decision of on field ref, it can produce competent refs. They would have 4 independent refs on var as assistants. Going against 4 independent refs if they all said it is a red is prob going to need some justification. In case of rashfords foul, if all 4 independent refs its a red, you can’t really argue with that. They want to get rid of these types of fouls even if they are intentional. On field ref if he did not see in live, can still see what var saw and why they think it is a red. I think in reality, if there were 4 refs, 2 refs would have said it is a yellow while 2 would say its a red in case of rashfords. Then it becomes the on field refs decision to decide.
Cricket has become pretty objective once var was introduced. Its just easier in cricket because there clear objective rules. No so much the case in soccer.