I don’t to be honest. So perhaps there’s some truth in that, but I find it hard to ever envision being really happy with VAR. I’m sure it will
I don’t see how this is a point in VAR’s favour. You get used to writing with your left hand if you lose your right arm in an accident. Doesn’t mean it improved your life.
I'm sorry but the idea that you have to keep your hands behind your back because a pen will be given against you if your hands is in a natural running position is destroying the game. The same would be said with giving a goal offside for a toenail. If this is the way we are going with football we might as well wrap it up now.
Poor choice of words, maybe. If you get used to it but still hate it then yes. But you have to acknowledge, the majority of people react quite poorly to change, and it’s not necessarily because the change itself was the problem. Again, the above sentence can be true, and yet still not apply in this specific case, so there’s no right or wrong. I guess I err on the side of viewing the current problems as primarily a rules issue (in the case of handballs) or a speed issue (in the case of offsides). If I’m right then both of these can be fixed, allowing us to keep the accuracy of VAR without changing the fan experience too much. I’m possibly being hopelessly optimistic, I’m aware!
I agree with the handball thing- but I’d argue it should result in a rule change rather than scrapping VAR and having obvious fouls, violent conduct, and offsides consistently missed by the officials. Because that is what we’d be going back to.
No. You just live in a World where you forgot which emotions football and honest/dishonest football feels. Football should reflect life, not be a PC polished version of life. It should be in the moment.
If this is where you're coming from, we're miles apart on this subject.
Shocking. Crazy. It is not even worth talking about. Just shocking.
Kroos should have received a yellow when he injured Pedri. He is experienced enough to finish the game with a yellow from that point on but he did get away with multiple yellow card momemts.
The only reason it wasn't given was an offside right beforehand. Otherwise it was one of the most obvious handballs of the tournament so far. I wouldn't complain if that was given against us in the league.
10/10 times it’s a penalty with the standards set by UEFA for CL and the Euros. It’s bonkers that VAR didn’t recommend Taylor to watch it on the screen
Any idea who was at VAR. I was shocked they had made a decision within seconds, as if it was already decided
exactly. Penalty clear as daylight. Surely this was one of the worst mistakes in big games since implementation of VAR
Stuart Attwell
They didn’t even check it for offside?
Never a pen because of offside in the buildup, crazy how people ignore it
Maybe Offside and maybe Fullkrug had a hand on it before. Not sure it would have been given anyway
Yeah Germany being robbed will become gospel despite the obvious, albeit only shown once, offside
Since when was it established that there was an offside in the build up
Oh FFS. Mates FC.
since the invention of replay
I've seen it as well and it's clearcut for me, it's really wild how they only showed it once, briefly, and never talked about it again
No lines have been drawn up to conclude, and the angles from all the replays are inconclusive in terms of the parts of his body that he can score with, it just looks tight.
no lines have been drawn up as the ref didn't deem it necessary and didn't whistle the handball in the first place, but it doesn't mean it was not offside. for me it was quite clear and if the handball was any tighter I think we'd see the replay and there would be no doubt.
I think that's because Taylor didn't think the handball of Cucu was worth checking for a pen, so he disregarded that. But for me, watching it live and seeing the replays now, Krug was clearly off.
Only reasonable explanation, yeah, but would've saved everyone a lot of blood pressure to just show some lines there
The supposed offside has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
That is clearly off.
”clearly off”
Mental.
How is he clearly off ? The only part of his body that seems to be offside is his hand, which he can’t score with anyway. It’s an extremely tight situation
Does it matter why the penalty wasn't given if there's a valid, yet not considered, reason it wasn't given?
