VAR sytem

But there can be delays for a whole host of reasons.

A very famous delay happened in the 1993 game between Man U and Sheffield Wednesday, where the referee was injured and had to be replaced. Delays happen for player injury, disputed penalties, timewasting tactics etc. Delay isn’t a new phenomenon.

It's pretty clear from my posts that I am watching the tournaments. And in all of them bar Cameroon v England, most players have accepted the decision of the VAR. All the ref says is "we're checking", and it's like an anaesthetic to players. Players don't even so much as draw the VAR signal anymore, as they used to. They just vanish and let the officials do what they have to do. 

You keep telling us in this thread all sorts of Nostradamus forecasts about the "death" of football. The whole world wants football. It will never die. 

And yet you can't give any examples of same...

I don't want games to take "20 minutes" longer, I said I want the correct decision, and it takes as long as it takes. Bugger the clock, I don't want players and fans walking out of a stadium feeling cheated, just to save a bit of time. If you don't like it, you can always stick to watching rugby. You seem to know much more about what happens in that sport than I do.

How do you think cricket fans find the patience to watch matches that last up to 5 days?

Meanwhile, there has not been a single case of a penalty "won" by simulation at any of this year's, or indeed last year's tournaments with VAR. While incidents of dark arts football in the penalty area at set pieces have been cut drastically, and will be cut further, now that forwards are banned from walls at free kicks.

That's what VAR does. Helping to cut the crap out of our sport. Well worth the extra minute or two taken to see it happen. 

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Your assertion that this isn't happening is utter bullsh*t

I think people are beginning to realise that it was more fun to have a few random wrong decisions to moan about.

It's ruining games for you, yet you're still watching them. What ruins the game for me are wrong decisions allowed to stand, whether it's for me, against me, or as a neutral. I've watched and attended enough games over the years, wondering why can't we use video technology as other sports do. So by comparison, "6 minutes" is no time. I'll wait. We must have justice on a football pitch at all times, not injustice to save a minute or two.

You keep telling me I'm not watching games. It's as much nonsense as telling us all about the impending "death" of football. I'm just not running round watching VAR checks/decisions with a stopwatch in my hand. If VAR was getting decisions regularly wrong, you could ask questions about why it's used. But the 98-99% accuracy rate justifies why we have it. So we're not going back to rampant cheating and/or rank incompetence again.