Do you think VAR is helping to correct the mistakes of referees in matches?

[Justin11]

Video assistance revenue ( VAR) was introduced to football recently just after the 2018 WC, to help guide referees to avoid costly mistakes, bad officiating calls in the field of play. 

Ever since it arrived, it has seen mixed opinions from football fans allover the world. 

Do you think the VAR is doing amazingly to correct awful officiating calls or it's slowing down the tempo of the game? 

Share your opinion!

Edited July 11, 2022 by Justin11

[Clasher]

Well, honestly VAR has been amazing and there has been a lot of fouls and mistakes that would have been ignored in the past and goals awarded wrongly but now every thing is scrutinized thoroughly so that a correct judgement could be passed without prejudice or favoring the wrong team.

[Justin11]

2 hours ago, Clasher said:

Well, honestly VAR has been amazing and there has been a lot of fouls and mistakes that would have been ignored in the past and goals awarded wrongly but now every thing is scrutinized thoroughly so that a correct judgement could be passed without prejudice or favoring the wrong team.

But have you taken your time to listen to what others are saying against the VAR? Their are goals that doesn't supposed to be counted, yet VAR counts it as good goal. And their are harsh calls too which VAR takes that doesn't warrant it. Like, calling someone who was initially shown a yellow card and hand red card instead. Some aren't worth the red card, and some goals in which VAR rules out and in, don't deserve to be there. VAR should be checkmated and improved. 

[Clasher]

11 hours ago, Justin11 said:

But have you taken your time to listen to what others are saying against the VAR? Their are goals that doesn't supposed to be counted, yet VAR counts it as good goal. And their are harsh calls too which VAR takes that doesn't warrant it. Like, calling someone who was initially shown a yellow card and hand red card instead. Some aren't worth the red card, and some goals in which VAR rules out and in, don't deserve to be there. VAR should be checkmated and improved. 

I know VAR isn't a hundred percent efficient but you wouldn't compare this time to when the referee had the final say and could decide to favour one team over the other and because there wasn't any other way to check for this fouls and misinterpretation of actions, some players or teams which weren't meant to lose or fouled would end up getting an unmerited yellow card or worst still a red card.

There are still more to be done but this times when VAR is used are actually much more better than the previous eras in my opinion.

[Justin11]

2 hours ago, Clasher said:

I know VAR isn't a hundred percent efficient but you wouldn't compare this time to when the referee had the final say and could decide to favour one team over the other and because there wasn't any other way to check for this fouls and misinterpretation of actions, some players or teams which weren't meant to lose or fouled would end up getting an unmerited yellow card or worst still a red card.

There are still more to be done but this times when VAR is used are actually much more better than the previous eras in my opinion.

Correct, their is no way it can be compared as to when referees were in total command of officiating. Now the assistant referee is helping to limit the errors of officiating in the field of play, that's why the European football governing body never considered scrapping upon some fans displeasure. 

[killamch89]

VAR for the most part has been pretty amazing but English referees are just very bad at their job. Honestly, without a doubt, English refs are the worst in Europe and that's why they don't get invited to any major event.

[Justin11]

1 hour ago, killamch89 said:

VAR for the most part has been pretty amazing but English referees are just very bad at their job. Honestly, without a doubt, English refs are the worst in Europe and that's why they don't get invited to any major event.

Lol, what about Howard web? He was one of the most successful English referees ever, he officiated lots of UCL matches before bowing to retirement finally. No doubt, some English referees are just living by hype, they aren't all that exceptional only few, that's why the VAR is around to correct them. 

[killamch89]

15 minutes ago, Justin11 said:

Lol, what about Howard web? He was one of the most successful English referees ever, he officiated lots of UCL matches before bowing to retirement finally. No doubt, some English referees are just living by hype, they aren't all that exceptional only few, that's why the VAR is around to correct them. 

At the last World Cup, no English Refs were invited for the very reason that the standards of refereeing is very poor. It's why English Refs hardly get to officiate matches in European competitions in the Champions League and Europa League.

[Justin11]

Just now, killamch89 said:

At the last World Cup, no English Refs were invited for the very reason that the standards of refereeing is very poor. It's why English Refs hardly get to officiate matches in European competitions in the Champions League and Europa League.

That's awful, they just have to work extremely hard to correct such kind of bad look and poor record when it comes to matching with other European referees in other countries. 

[killamch89]

5 minutes ago, Justin11 said:

That's awful, they just have to work extremely hard to correct such kind of bad look and poor record when it comes to matching with other European referees in other countries. 

The problem is that the English refs aren't being held accountable by their association as strictly as the others so it's no surprise that the refs are this bad. I mean, do you see some of the fouls that players get away with in the Premier League. Take for instance this:

In any other league, that's an instant red card but in the Premier League, some players can get away with these kinds of tackles.

[Clasher]

22 hours ago, Justin11 said:

Correct, their is no way it can be compared as to when referees were in total command of officiating. Now the assistant referee is helping to limit the errors of officiating in the field of play, that's why the European football governing body never considered scrapping upon some fans displeasure. 

Before now they were some honest referees officiating games but quite a good number of them were usually driven by emotions, player favoritism or even corrupt to some extent. I know some of them still are despite the use of VAR but it is quite impossible to wrongly foul a player without it been properly scrutinized and the referee brought back to order.

[killamch89]

7 hours ago, Clasher said:

Before now they were some honest referees officiating games but quite a good number of them were usually driven by emotions, player favoritism or even corrupt to some extent. I know some of them still are despite the use of VAR but it is quite impossible to wrongly foul a player without it been properly scrutinized and the referee brought back to order.

The English Premier League is a huge culprit of that because refs always tend to give clubs like Man United all the calls and a whole lot of penalties which they didn't even deserve.

[Clasher]

1 hour ago, killamch89 said:

The English Premier League is a huge culprit of that because refs always tend to give clubs like Man United all the calls and a whole lot of penalties which they didn't even deserve.

You are actually not very far from the truth, when man United is playing other premier league clubs they are usually the ones who get more penalties blown in their favour.

[Justin11]

On 7/14/2022 at 1:20 PM, Clasher said:

Before now they were some honest referees officiating games but quite a good number of them were usually driven by emotions, player favoritism or even corrupt to some extent. I know some of them still are despite the use of VAR but it is quite impossible to wrongly foul a player without it been properly scrutinized and the referee brought back to order.

According to what @killamch89said, premier league referees do favour some teams over another. I can remember clearly what happened in 2012/2013 season, when the referee gifted man united an undeserving penalty just for them to win 3-2 at old trafford against Chelsea. 

[Clasher]

1 hour ago, Justin11 said:

I can remember clearly what happened in 2012/2013 season, when the referee gifted man united an undeserving penalty just for them to win 3-2 at old trafford against Chelsea. 

Incidents like this is what has made VAR a much needed addition to football so as to curb and scrutinize the activities of both players and the referees alike because both parties has a really crucial part to play in the game.