Luton To Encounter The Dreaded VAR
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.
COYH’s
Only One Ticket Which Would It Be?
Previous article by Mad Hatter
Luton Town Support Asked To Make A Choice