To be fair, Stelling and McCoist were very strong this morning that Yoro’s goal should not have stood, ie a blatant foul that was all the more puzzling given the Yanited penalty that seemed to be plucked out of thin air.
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Yeah to push this “clampdown” out of thin air in the same game and then ignore it a half later which benefited one team will tell you that it’s not a clampdown.
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Dale Johnson: “VAR is reluctant to get involved for pushing on goals” said in the same piece about how this season they want a tougher approach to holding in the box.
So holding and preventing someone potentially scoring is a good use of VAR, but intervening on someone actually scoring after benefiting from a push is too far and too intrusive. There are probably a reasonable set of arguments for why one was a foul and the other not because no two incidents are the same and you can always draw distinctions that might reasonable lead to different decisions about them. But to these people not hear themselves? This is an insane way to justify the way the officials viewed these incidents.
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VAR should get involved in both or nethier. I do feel it’s set up to get completely trashed so they will in the end get rid of it all including offsides that evidently they probably dislike because it makes them look shit.
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It feels like they have backed themselves into a strange position of not wanting to impact too much goals that have already been scored because of fan backlash to it ruining the game despite that being principally what it was brought in to address (Henry’s handball against Ireland in the WC play off was a big factor in finally moving forward with it).
It feels like the authorities are trying to be responsive on the micro level without keeping what they were brought in to do as the north star in every process development decision and so we end up with an incoherent collection of ideas.
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And they seem overly concerned on offsides as it’s all Wenger can talk about with his silly idea which effectively undermines the laws of the game in my view.
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The commentary in game thought it was a push but a soft one, had no conviction in condemning VAR
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fitting that bruno shot it into clear air
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NASA confirmed it’s in orbit….
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Is the situation truly that awful in Newcastle ? I didn’t realise that we sucker punched them quite that hard…
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After a weekend I’ve seen a bit what is the point in these announcements refs make regarding VAR and some sound utterly werid.
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It’s meant to improve communication to the matchday crowd, so they know what went on behind the scenes.
Seems fucking obvious to be honest, wasn’t the issue was they just had some stoppages and due to the lack of video communication no one knew in the early days. Now most grounds will have that come up on the screens, I think that’s part of the reason we changed our score board.
After all the issue was “why has the game stopped for 15 minutes” that wouldn’t be solved by the ref making an announcement at the end of the process, also if he doesn’t change his mind he doesn’t do like Baseball or Cricket and announce it stands he just waves his hands.
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Yeah there are cases where in the crowd you dont even know why the game has been stopped and so an explanation of what they were looking at once the review is done is helpful. Especially when it results in a red card, penalty, or goal being disallowed. 99% of the time the announcement will say nothing of value to tv viewers who already know what the review was about. But it has even less value when an out of shape guy is blowing into his microphone in a way that makes the audio choppy like last night.
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I always felt the issue was there was no comms, this was pre to the decisions appearing on the video screens. If they are going to do this do it for all video decisions not just half as it’s just going confuse more.
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3 teams with 6 points after 2 games. At least one of them will drop points at the weekend.
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Potter is inbig trouble WH lost to Wolves today.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1n0lu0q/opta_liverpool_have_scored_the_most_added_time/
Mentality Monsters.
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He made a massive mistake leaving Brighton for Chelsea.
Whilst still having issues at Brighton, they were also at a level the board knew they could overlook his faults as he was doing a better than expected job with them. Chelsea was a job with massive expectations and demands and a squad with big egos that he never stood a chance at and has put a spotlight on his faults which can’t be overlooked now.
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His accountant begs to differ.
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