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RE: E' buono, ma l'annullo lo stesso - It's good, but I'll still cancel it! [Multilanguage]
VAR's use in England has reached the point where it serves no benefit. Every weekend, its sole purpose is to demonstrate how shit all of our referees are. Without VAR, they could say "I didn't see it". With VAR, they write letters every Monday morning to apologise for their incompetence.
I saw what happened in Tottenham-Liverpool, surreal, but we have a sensational one every week as well. Sometimes VAR sees but can't intervene due to "protocol," sometimes it doesn't have the images (with 50 cameras filming every game), and sometimes, like the Kean case, it borders on the ridiculous. It is a useful tool, but its use should be limited to macroscopic cases, for example I would not allow VAR to correct decisions made by referees on fouls and contacts unless something was not seen at all. Otherwise, we might as well eliminate referees altogether and entrust matches to AIs.
That would be interesting 🤔
I've probably said it before but I wonder what a football match would be like if every time somebody appealed for something, no matter how ridiculous the appeal was, what would happen. Guy boots the ball off the pitch and claims it's his throw, he gets the throw. Guy throws himself down theatrically in the area and claims that he was elbowed - he gets a penalty and the other guy gets sent off. It would be carnage.