KujaIX
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In my view, the referee lost control around the point of our goal, which was not his fault. After that it became a bruising slog and in our disallowed goal he did actually make the right decision, the wrong decision was made by the VAR team in not giving us a penalty shortly after.
The thing is, with VAR, you remove accountability from the official on the field of play to a generic group of referees out of sight and out of accountability. They decide whether a decision goes to VAR or not - so you can't blame the ref for our disallowed goal and not given penalty.
You simply cannot have rules which are subjective - and I know a contact sport has to have some subjectivity but get real - officiated by one person, who is then overseen by another who makes the call (and during that, takes into account whether the original ref is likely to have made a mistake). It is the opposite of accountability and transparency.
Do you know what was the greatest implementation of VAR I've seen - it was the first year Italy had it.
Every handball in the box was a penalty - ergo, as objective as it can be. And with every close offside the referee went and viewed the monitor and decided himself.
Now, how many poor decisions happened that season? I cannot remember one.
The thing is, with VAR, you remove accountability from the official on the field of play to a generic group of referees out of sight and out of accountability. They decide whether a decision goes to VAR or not - so you can't blame the ref for our disallowed goal and not given penalty.
You simply cannot have rules which are subjective - and I know a contact sport has to have some subjectivity but get real - officiated by one person, who is then overseen by another who makes the call (and during that, takes into account whether the original ref is likely to have made a mistake). It is the opposite of accountability and transparency.
Do you know what was the greatest implementation of VAR I've seen - it was the first year Italy had it.
Every handball in the box was a penalty - ergo, as objective as it can be. And with every close offside the referee went and viewed the monitor and decided himself.
Now, how many poor decisions happened that season? I cannot remember one.
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