Beyond the pauses, my biggest concern is that there will be a spike in the number of penalties. Let's face it: there's a lot of penalty-worthy contact that goes on and goes uncalled, and I suspect a lot of that is an understanding that calling everything would be detrimental to the game. Without the ability to turn a blind eye to the smaller shirt-pulls and the like, games could end up being very penalty-reliant.
Not in the slightest, I hate the term' contact gave him the right to go down'. But in this instance I thought the defender was daft to pull the defender back. Without VAR it's the kind of thing he gets away with, but when you know VAR is an option you have to be clever than that.
Please god nooooo to the last part!!! I have to mute that ****ing Paddy power "gold" advert as it is, as someone has said before the whole advert makes my blood boil to unhealthy levels.
This match might not be a fair evaluation of VAR's impact on an average match, however, because this match is all manner of weird.
Fair enough mate sorry if I misunderstood and should clarify I haven't seen this particular incident. I just think that the way people justify a dive/pen with 'there was contact' is damaging the game beyond legitimising diving and I can see stupid penalties given regularly now.
I agree this could be a worry. It already happens in tennis and cricket, so often a final point of a tennis match is reviewed 'because he might as well', and in cricket almost any LBW is reviewed. For me the cricket issue is that it should be 1 review per innings, not 2, so that you can only appeal if you are sure it was a wrong decision, not just that you hope it might be.
All I will say on VAR is you will see players trying not to get away with as much as they do. Livermore will certainly think twice next time.
Disagree. He's a good link to their attack, but he's woefully miscast. Like Arsenal (for years) they desperately need a Wanyama or Kante.
