This Sunday, in what promises to be a scintillating FA Cup tie against the Premier League side, Chelsea, the Hatters will experience a rare encounter with VAR.
Although not used in the EFL, VAR is used when an FA Cup tie takes place at a Premier League ground.
Now, expressing my own view and as someone who must shield from COVID-19, I admit I have watched more than my fair share of live, televised Premier League football, I must admit I am not a fan of VAR.
Whilst I can see the logic of wanting to get decisions right, I find it hugely frustrating with VAR impacting upon the flow of the game.
On to many occasions play is held up for far too long while decisions are debated, at length, by the VAR official.
Offsides seem to be the worst when it comes to interrupting the flow with the VAR officials using all sort of angles to finally come to a decision with many a case being decided by a matter of an inch with a toenail being the only difference between offside and onside and with different coloured lines appearing to criss-cross the screen to provide visual proof.
Ahead of the game, I am hoping there are no incidents that warrant the use of VAR, I want the game to flow like it should do, I want the referee to make the decisions and I want to live or die by what the referee this Sunday, David Coote, decides as opposed to the VAR official, Peter Bankes.
I have always believed good and bad decisions even themselves out over the course of a season.
But what are your views on VAR?
Are you for or against it?
Please feel free to have your say in the comment facility beneath this article.
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Hi mh, like you I’ve seen a lot of games on TV an when var is used in 80 %of cases the decision is usually bollocks to be Frank. Handball don’t make me laugh, offside by a toenail come on!!! Penalty oh behave. We may have moaned about refs in the past. But for God’s sake give em back control an stop this nonsense. As you say time wasted is unbelievable.
so I’m not alone in thinking the it is a load of cows poo 🙂
Its crap…..leave the game alone. All the changes come from pratt’s who have never played the game….
VAR should follow the lead that cricket has taken. Let the officials officiate the game and only use VAR for a clear and obvious error. An inch offside isn’t a clear and obvious error.
The on-field captain could have 1 or 2 chances to go for VAR. If it’s a marginal decision, then the review is retained. If it was clearly a bad decision to go for VAR, then the review is lost
As an example: If a goal is scored and the linesperson signals onside but the defence claim offside, then the captain has a chance to review it. If it proves that it was the so called ‘toenail’, then the goal stands because it isn’t a clear and obvious error, but the review is retained. If it proves the attacker was well on side, then the review is lost.
Alternatively, if the goal is flagged offside and the attacking team claim a VAR, that proves that the player was level or just onside, then the goal is chalked off. If it proved that he was well onside, then the goal is awarded and the review retained.
All this can also be used for handballs and bad tackles also.
Summing up. let the officials run the game and the players take responsibility for their use of VAR.
Hi appy hatter, the only problem is that would waste even more time than it does now. So as Alan said. Just scrap it. An let’s all get back to questioning the refs parentage. An debating it among ourselves
Good points, but just scrap it…..