"If you notice the referee, he's having a bad game." But what happens when technology, in the form of VAR, takes center stage and turns every joyous moment into a soulless, bureaucratic exercise?
Great post. Coming around to the idea that VAR should only be used in special circumstances to save us from the most egregious mistakes. It saps the life out of the game otherwise.
Precisely. It creates incidents out of nothing and still manages to get the things it's supposed to be deciding on wrong almost as much as it did previously. And those are its good points! Honestly, I'd take egregious every day of the week over nitpicking through everything in a build up. I'm in favor of anything that can make an instantaneous decision such as ball technology to check if it's a goal. When they can do something similar for offsides, great. Until then, someone with a flag will have to do. :)
Great post. Coming around to the idea that VAR should only be used in special circumstances to save us from the most egregious mistakes. It saps the life out of the game otherwise.
Precisely. It creates incidents out of nothing and still manages to get the things it's supposed to be deciding on wrong almost as much as it did previously. And those are its good points! Honestly, I'd take egregious every day of the week over nitpicking through everything in a build up. I'm in favor of anything that can make an instantaneous decision such as ball technology to check if it's a goal. When they can do something similar for offsides, great. Until then, someone with a flag will have to do. :)