[Football] World Cup - Day Four

[The Wizard]

The last penalty VAR how was that not a penalty?

I think what we’ve learnt from this tournament so far is it’s not just UK VAR officials that are totally incompetent.

It’s blatant, that kind of thing literally changed the course of the game and potentially Canadas World Cup.

 

[The Wizard]

Martinez has his favourites.

 

[Poojah]

I think what we’ve learnt from this tournament so far is it’s not just UK VAR officials that are totally incompetent.

It’s blatant, that kind of thing literally changed the course of the game and potentially Canadas World Cup.

It’s a shame really, as I remember thinking that at its inaugural rollout at the 2018 World Cup it worked really well (despite my reservations), only for us to make a hash of it when we imported it to the Premier League.

In my opinion, if it can’t consistently get decisions like that right then it should be used very sparingly, only in the most blatant of circumstances - hand of God, ghost goal type scenarios. The idea that VAR would make officiating infallible was a pipe dream - in its current form it is merely creating new problems.

 

[The Wizard]

It’s a shame really, as I remember thinking that at its inaugural rollout at the 2018 World Cup it worked really well (despite my reservations), only for us to make a hash of it when we imported it to the Premier League.

In my opinion, if it can’t consistently get decisions like that right then it should be used very sparingly, only in the most blatant of circumstances - hand of God, ghost goal type scenarios. The idea that VAR would make officiating infallible was a pipe dream - in its current form it is merely creating new problems.

Yep, and it’s the same old issue that certain VAR officials will see things differently to other VAR officials - as usual, football is a game of opinions and one team of referees from Africa might have slightly different tolerances to those from South America, there’s so many variables

Two different people can look at the same incident 20 times and still disagree, that’s football, and to be honest I used to find it much more tolerable just dealing with one individual on the pitch making an error than I do this farcical VAR officiating.

 

[The Wizard]

Watching Canada they actually remind me a lot of us, not just the wasting chances but the actual set up, they commit a lot of players to the press and leave defenders 1v1 vs attackers for long balls… very impressive setup to see an international team try

 

[Paskman]

I assume with this ref we won't get much injury time

 

[LamieRobertson]

Ridiculous yellow awarded to Onana

 

[jcdenton08]

Here comes the Trossmeister

 

[hart's shirt]

Here comes Leo...

 

[Bedsex]

Leo coming on, I’m going to be conflicted now. Canada definitely deserve something from this

 

[LamieRobertson]

The Tross about to come on

 

[SK1NT]

Just put a fiver on our man for the next goal.

 

[The Wizard]

Canada shooting

 

[zefarelly]

I'd like to see Trossard do well, but equally, Canada deserve at least a point from this game.

 

[banjo]

Should have started. Belgium look shite.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Batshuayi was greedy there, as Trossard was free.

 

[A1X]

Have we ever had a World Cup goal scored by a player at Brighton at the time? Struggling to think of one.

 

[zefarelly]

Who is Batshiteye? he's crap!

 

[GT49er]

Have we ever had a World Cup goal scored by a player at Brighton at the time? Struggling to think of one.

Pretty sure no.

 

[dazzer6666]

…..another one of our exes (just) gets on