Watched two matches: Chelsea Vs Brighton & City Vs Tottenham and both games had huge referee-ing errors at the end…How did Brighton not get a corner kick when the ball clearly hits a Chelsea player and goes out the line…And why did the referee stop Silva’s 1v1 chance against Tottenham to award a foul in favour of city…I am neither a brighton nor a city fan but both these decisions angered me so bad…And these smug referees just walk out with their satisfied punchable faces playing with the feelings of the fans and sanctity of our league…This is probably one of the most exciting seasons in recent times and yet we can’t enjoy it to the fullest coz of these incompetent referees…PL should just fire all English referees and import referees from other countries…

  • No-Clue1153@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It’s a timely reminder to people calling for VAR to be scrapped that the alternative is actually giving these people more power to screw up matches.

    • dhalsimulant@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The shit calls are still happening, VAR changes nothing except ruining goal celebrations and making everyone in the stadium stand and wait for three minutes anytime something happens.

      VAR should be completely scrapped because it does nothing. Just in the week VAR spent ages getting a handball call wrong for a penalty in the CL - a timely reminder that VAR is still a ref watching an incident and making a judgement call.

      • No-Clue1153@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        VAR changes nothing

        This post you’re on literally disproves that. You see the penalty Brighton would have been awarded without VAR, how can that be worse than waiting a few seconds for a check to be done?

        • dhalsimulant@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          You’re misunderstanding - VAR is still just a ref who will sometimes make bad calls. It changes nothing other than adding time to the game. It’s just a ref in a different room with exactly the same potential for bad decision making. It was only a few weeks ago that Mike Dean said he didn’t give a VAR call that he knew the ref had missed because he didn’t want to make it difficult for his mate.

          VAR will sometimes get it right, in the same way that an on-field ref will, so what’s the point? VAR achieves nothing but slowing the game down and ruining goal celebrations.