Very true… thats why I prefer old linos making the decision.

But to be fair… and to add context to all of the above… I’m hugely bias. I hate VAR and want rid of it. So take all my comments with a pinch of salt.

Doesn’t work.

Points 1 and 2… This would result in more wasted time, not less. You’d have basically at least 6 reviews per game, as towards the end why wouldn’t a manager just appeal on the off chance something is spotted. These won’t be quick, first the controller needs to decide what to show, then the ref needs to watch all these replays to come to a decision. before making his way back to the field… 6 times…

Point 3… This will drive people mad. A wrong decision will stand/be given as the ref couldn’t decide within 2 minutes. All people will say is it was obvious, just the ref wasn’t good enough to make his mind up quickly enough. This will add huge pressure on refs to come to quick decisions.

Point 4… the best one and better than the current system. I would still hate this as we shouldn’t be giving offsides for a kneecap being 2 inches offside. Level should mean level within reason.

In the long term?.. football is a lot less enjoyable now. Inevitable that the popularity will start to be effected.

In the long term?.. football is a lot less enjoyable now. Inevitable that the popularity will start to be effected.

I like the idea of this. We’ve all seen fouls that aren’t quite reds but a yellow just doesn’t seem enough.

But realistically this is a complicated solution to a tiny issue (those fouls happen maybe once every 5 games?).

Instead, the biggest impact will be people arguing why that foul was an orange but this foul only a yellow etc etc.

We need to be making rules simpler, this isn’t the way forward.

Why??.. I’ve never understood why people get upset about this, commentators always saying “we don’t want to see that”.

I have no idea why this is any different from, say, someone putting their hand in the air to claim a throw in when the balls hit an opposition player on the way out.

You’re just asking the ref to implement a fair consequence of an action.

I agree the genie is out the bottle… but we will never make VAR work. Its impossible.

No matter what happens people will want to change it. The current focus seems to be on limiting the time taken to make a decision i.e. if you can’t decide in 1 minute then its not clear and obvious.

But if we made that change then it would be about 2 weeks until a managers out there saying “It was an obvious decision, they should be able to see it in 1 minute, they’re just incompetent”. We’d end up putting more pressure on the refs leading to more incidents like the Liverpool v Spurs goal and we’d end up discussing removing the time cap rule to improve decisions.

We’re forever in a circle now of how we get VAR right, its not just part of football now, it’s the biggest part… and I’m sick of it.

Footballs always kind of had the unofficial rule that if you don’t go down you’re almost asking for the advantage. Its rubbish, but its also a slight difference between a dive and going down, there has to be contact for the 2nd.

Now with VAR its significantly worse. You not only need to go down, you then need to scream and shout. The best example of this for me was the Man City penalty v Man United. Rodri gets an arm across the chest, goes down, then screams at the ref like he was just punched in the face. This is the way to guarantee a review on a challenge that is so often just seen as part of football.

I half agree with this. I think the limitation of stats is often that they need to be considered alongside other relevent stats, or sometimes of course there is context that stats cant capture.

In terms of Bruno his creativity stats are completely justified. I believe he is one of the most imaginative midfielders the premier league has ever seen and has the technique to capitalise on this. However, this comes at the cost of huge risk. His pass accruacy is usually around 75% which is really low and makes it much harder for United to control a game. Compare that to the likes of KDB (pass accuracy of over 80%) who may not create as much but helps his team win by choosing the right times to go for the killer ball.

In this aspect that additional stat is what is needed to add the relevant context.