VAR sytem

A few points on this post.

1. Your comments are comical

2. No such thing as a defensive handball. I am clearly using that term to distinguish between an attacker handling the ball and a defender handling the ball, i.e. a defensive handball. Jaysus.

3. Terry Phelan   

4. According to what you have said before, there most definitely will be thousands of penalties in every game next season. As every single defensive handball (there it is again) in the box will result in a penalty, will it not?

5. Did you watch the Copa America game? It took 6 or 7 minutes to decide on a decision that should have been made within 30 seconds to 1 minute maximum. It was a really easy decision, the only question was where the foul took place. The situation was a complete farce and it was horrendous to watch.

6. The Womens World Cup - where to start  In what has been a pretty good tournament especially the standard of the top 10 or so teams (I've followed the last few Womens world cups also and it is improving vastly at the top end) - The VAR has done it's utmost to ruin the tournament. It's implementation has been an abomination.

7. Collina  is shocked to discover that other competitions won't align their rules  You realise you actually prove my points when you say things like this. It's actually depressing that I'm arguing this exact point for ages (that VAR is not aligned, that VAR is not run smoothly) and yet here you are with Collinas shock and pearls of wisdom. F*cking hell.

I see the percentage is down from 99.3 to 98.18 percent now 

Handball is handball is handball - do you know anything about the handball laws in football?

 

Most coaches are in favour. But you'll always have the oddballs like the  Wagners and Pochettinos who cry about the lack of emotion involved. We're getting the right decisions, that is all people in favour of technology have called for. It might mean slightly more restrained celebrations sometimes, as all goals are provisional until play restarts, but nobody can say anymore that you only scored/won because the referee made a mistake. 3 EPL coaches lost their jobs last season, just days after major refereeing errors in their games, one of which was a goal punched into the net, and allowed to stand. It was a horrendous error, but there was no VAR available to put it right. It won't happen next season.

Fans are much more divided. They all love it when a decision is in their favour, and hate it when it goes against them. Some start booing because it's too slow for them, and they might miss their last bus home. Or their last pint of the devils buttermilk. Or both. But sometimes, it has to be slow. There may be €100mn, or a 3 match ban, or a next round place at stake. It may be the difference between a coach keeping his job or getting fired. So the final decision must be correct, and if it takes a bit more time to make it, so be it. People like me can live with a bit more time taken as necessary.

In fairness, I didn’t say that alls well with players. The culture is too engrained. But it will help over time, especially as people become aware of how futile it is to argue with a video replay.

No. Planning is just misinformed.

VAR has been running in plenty of leagues and competitions for 2-3 years now. The problem isn't the system. It's the implementation of the system. It leads to huge delays of play which are the death of the game imo. It also leads to total confusion amongst players, management and fans. This is why players are continuously surrounding referees about VAR calls..