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[Football] VAR improvement plans
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Super Steve Earle
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Apparently refs will be miked up so the fans will know why and how decisions have been made. Imagine the utter frustration for fans of hearing in real time why the ref/VAR are making the wrong decisions and having to boil in futile exasperation as they make the opposite judgement to what every fan and pundit has seen with their own eyes whilst being able to do nothing about it.
Gabbafella
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- Aug 22, 2012
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Howard Webb can suck my fat one.
Nothing will change.
Nothing will change.
AmexRuislip
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Shame it wasn't already in play when that lino elbowed that whinging Robertson
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 16,055
Get rid of it?
I like Webb, however when he apologised for one decision at Spurs that is a joke. We had three stonewall penalties and a not and clear obvious handball goal disallowed. Until they release a full report on the games it will not hold credence.
They still haven't got it. We only want howlers corrected - all that guff about a millimetre off-side? - not interested ! If it's a millimetre either way, it's not a howler whichever way it's given. Off the ball events missed because the ref hasn't got eyes in the back of his head - yes! Things the ref hasn't seen - yes! Diabollical mistakes that everybody in the stands and everybody watching on TV can see - yes! Other trivialities - keep your nose out of it, VAR!
To be fair, isn't that what Webb basically said on that video?
Clearly got some way to go still. This might be unpopular on here given recent events, but I think he's trying to move VAR and refereeing in the right direction. I like the idea of refs being miked up.
It won't stop them looking for a fingernail off-side to disallow a goal though, will it.
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Some of the officials are useless (incompetent or corrupt). He has to address that.
All they need to do is watch the full Spurs game, with the comms between ref and VAR, then discuss wtf is wrong with it all. In one game the whole issue with VAR is apparent.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
- 12,132
Stuart Atwell being given the other semi-final, 2 weeks after the shambles at White Hart Lane, tells me everything I need to know, about how PGMOL is being run.
It's a mates club. They look after their own.
I don't hold out any hope of improvements.
It's a mates club. They look after their own.
I don't hold out any hope of improvements.
If they want to affect real change then they should make the refs accountable for the key decisions. Pay them properly, but make them do press conferences and answer for the calls they make. Then SACK OR RELEGATE THE SHIT REFS.
The spurs f*** ups still boil my piss so much that it is easy to overlook the two points at Palace they cost us with their incompetence.
The spurs f*** ups still boil my piss so much that it is easy to overlook the two points at Palace they cost us with their incompetence.
Was Atwell that much to blame ? VAR let him down more then he did himself IMO.
Plus Webb has already got rid of some serial mistake makers so not sure that is ‘looking after their own’
Even if it does, we’re still owed at least 5 points from VAR errors. That could cost us Europe and has probably cost us the shot at a Champions League spot. Sickening when you think about it.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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Atwell was staring directly at the Mitoma penalty and waved it away, as he did on several other occasions.
He set a very high bar for giving decisions for us, but a lower one for Spurs.
It was the worst performance by a referee I have ever seen.
Filthy beast
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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Webb knows he can't get rid of too many at once.
He didn't need to get rid of Atwell necessarily, but to reward him with an FA cup semi-final?
Do you really think that is an appropriate decision, in the circumstances?
It was also the worst VAR performance I have ever seen, even worse than the ‘wrong line’ incident a Selhurst. If VAR had worked properly, we’d at least have got a draw as a competent operator would not have the found clear and obvious evidence to rule out Welbeck’s deflected goal. Even if Atwell was not interested in giving us a penalty that day.