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1 year agoVAR was meant to correct clear and obvious errors. If you need to draw lines on the pitch and study 30 different images to decide that the players dick is in an off side position this is not a clear and obvious anything. Looking at 30 reviews of a tackle because you can’t make a decision as to whether the defender touched the ball before he touched the player…and then asking the referee to look at a slow motion view does not confirm an error was made in real time. Even the VAR teams get stuff wrong!! VAR will cost a manager his job and Howard Webb and all his cronies will wash their hands of any responsibility.
We all know that VAR is fallible. So when half a dozen “suspect” VAR decisions cost some poor manager his job will Howard and his chums stump up the cash to feed his family? The other point to consider is the cost…in the good old days we paid for ref and 2 linesmen. Then we had those 3 plus a guy to hold up signs…now we have those 4 plus an unknown number of other officials getting paid for ruining the game.