Todays Games

That's the point, clear and obvious would not require the slide-rule lunacy we're seeing in almost every decision. If it's to close to call with the naked eye it should be 'play on'...

 

What i don't understand with VAR and the offside rule is - an outfield player should be judged on where their feet are rather than arms because if the ball hits the arms of an outfield player, its handball.

 

Ashley young at old Trafford that led to Derry being sent off as an example.....

An obvious error obviously!!!!

Where the officials clearly made a wrong decision.....it ain't rocket science....cut out the subjective decisions....

 

At last even those who oversee things admit that it's being to forensic in premier league compared to other leagues....

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/50944416

 

derby...sorry wayne rooney's derby 1 up at home to Charlton but down to 10 men

 

A bit of overdue common sense.

 

So don't use it for offside?

 

That would be better than the pig's ear they currently make of it...

 

Agreed.

 

How the Premier League table would look if VAR wasn't being used this season - Gameweek 20

• By Rob Hoskin
  
• 10:35 30/12/19

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VAR hit a new low during gameweeks 19 and 20 in the Premier League.

In truth, it was a complete and utter sh*tshow.

There were a whole host of overturned decisions with numerous goals being chalked off due to a stray armpit. Is this really what VAR was brought in for?


Harry Kane, Dan Burn, Max Meyer, Teemu Pukki, Pedro Neto and Lys Mousset were all denied goals for very minimal offsides.

It's led to a petition from football fans asking for the removal of VAR for the rest of the Premier League season.

As you probably know by now, here at GIVEMESPORT, we try to ignore VAR completely.

Each week, we work out how the Premier League table would look without VAR. To do so, we identify all the overturned VAR decisions from the previous gameweek and speculate how it has affected that match in question.

Of course, it's arbitrary but it's the most accurate way of working out how VAR has changed things in the Premier League this season.

In this article, we look at gameweeks 19 AND 20.

And this is what it's done to the table:

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VAR strikes again, the thickness of shoe leather or whatever boots are made off these days...…

 

If you use it for offside there has to be a line.

 

Smith has made 1 and scored 1 for Wall. Wish we had him and not Wells.

 

Just watching Millwall v Luton,Matt Smith is giving as good a performance of centre forward play not seen at Loftus Road since last season

 

It is supposed to be a clear and obvious mistake, if you have to use a line and forensically examine it to the width of a toenail then that is not clear and obvious and you have to question the technology when it is at an angle to the camera. This system is flawed...

 

Don't use it for offside then.

 

I find it extraordinary that the authorities continue to use VAR in this way. Can they not see how far out of tune they are with the football-supporting public?

 

That's about the only thing clear and obvious...

 

Wells has given us the right reply today

 

Lol