New Years Day fixtures and beyond

[binomial]

If the on field ref went to review it on the screen, then I must have missed it

He didn't go to review it because he wasn't told to but the VAR reviews it for themselves.

 

[StevieM]

They’ll wait till we are on a long unbeaten run for him to jinx it.

Do we have any dead rubbers coming up soon?

 

[dantes]

They’ll wait till we are on a long unbeaten run for him to jinx it.

My eye has only just stopped twitching from that.

 

[Tinto]

He didn't go to review it because he wasn't told to but the VAR reviews it for themselves.

I know that but if VAR told him to review City’s pen then there’s no reason they shouldn’t have told him to review Arsenal’s potential pen.

Both should have been reviewed by the on field ref or neither should have been.

 

[binomial]

Well fuck.


Fuck 2022.

 

[darkstarexodus]

I’m waiting for shitty to win it in the 92nd minute.

And there we go.

 

[Markeh]

Fuck sake

 

[binomial]

I know that but if VAR told him to review City’s pen then there’s no reason they shouldn’t have told him to review Arsenal’s potential pen.

Both should have been reviewed by the on field ref or neither should have been.

Well that's a different argument altogether, do we get onfield refs to review EVERYTHING then?

 

[Tinto]

I’m waiting for shitty to win it in the 92nd minute.

You were dead right on that

 

[darkstarexodus]

Even when I hold out no hope, its still the hope that kills.

 

[Markeh]

Who’s that Arsenal dick flapping his arms around after being caught under the ball and heading it into a terrible area

 

[Tinto]

Well that's a different argument altogether, do we get onfield refs to review EVERYTHING then?

No, VAR just need to be consistent. They didn’t ask the ref to review the first one and so they shouldn’t ask the ref to review the second one

 

[Hansern]

City are really getting every call these days. Awful

 

[Mystic]

They didn't deserve anything from that game.

 

[The Nomad]

ManchestVAR City strike another dagger.

 

[Halmeister]

Another boring league wrapped up by Christmas. Well done PGMOL

 

[rubans]

PL has been boring for years anyway with a boring City side.
Good thing we didn’t waste any money this year on buying a midfielder or a striker, better off saving all the money for 2024 when Klopp leaves.

 

[MomoWASright]

Another boring league wrapped up by Christmas. Well done PGMOL

PIGMOL

 

[binomial]

Here he is. Mr Peter 'subjective' Walton the fucking cunt.

 

[Tinto]

We should do away with VAR and implement a system like the player challenge system in tennis.

Let the managers make the decision to ask the ref to review incidents on screen and the managers can only do this three times per match

 

[peekay]

We should do away with VAR and implement a system like the player challenge system in tennis.

Let the managers make the decision to ask the ref to review incidents on screen and the managers can only do this three times per match

Or something like cricket where the third umpire explains their decision.

 

[Farkmaster]

Is this the meltdown thread?

 

[Frogfish]

We should do away with VAR and implement a system like the player challenge system in tennis.

Let the managers make the decision to ask the ref to review incidents on screen and the managers can only do this three times per match

3 is probably too much. 2 but if successful you don't lose the appeal (as in cricket).

 

[King Binny]

 

[SummerOnions]

Is this the meltdown thread?

Are we the cunts we accuse bluemoon of being?

 

[The Nomad]

We should do away with VAR and implement a system like the player challenge system in tennis.

Let the managers make the decision to ask the ref to review incidents on screen and the managers can only do this three times per match

I said in another thread. There needs to be a team of 3 on subjective decisions. Current referees alone have each others backs too much.

For all matter of fact decisions. Keep with the current pool of referees.

For subjective decisions, the team of 3 made up from

- a current referee
- a former referee
- a former professional player

Have a timer of 45 seconds from first available replay to the team.

If 1 out of 3 say warrants the referee to overturn. Then stick with the onfield decision.

If 2 out of 3 say warrants the referee to overturn, then the referee is called to a pitch side monitor to have a second look. The referee should be entitled to decline the advice though if he feels he had a better angle than the replay available.

If 3 out of 3 say warrants the referee to overturn, then this is clearly an obvious error. It shouldn't be referred to a pitch side monitor, it should be directly communicated to the referee and the stadium of the decision.

This would bring some sort of consistency to VAR.

 

[Halmeister]

They definitely need a former player on some sort of decision making panel. I just assumed referees would be normal fellas that know the game to a decent standard, but they're obviously fucking mongs that can't even kick a ball. So they need someone there to impart a bit of common sense.

 

[tombrown]

Watford should have had a pen. Once again no intervention from VAR - presumably because they can see why the ref got it wrong. What is the point?

 

[binomial]

Cue a last min Spurs goal.

 

[tombrown]

Yup