Have watched a couple of games in the Confederations Cup where they've been trialling the new VARs. It is absolutely shocking. I know there are teething problems etc but it's going to turn into a farce unless they fix it.

The main problem is that a team will now appeal anything when they've conceded a goal. They'll berate the referee and tell him to check upstairs because of some cooked up reason it shouldn't be a goal. It takes away from that moment as a fan where it's pure happiness that your team has scored a goal, you have to wait to find out. I've always thought this a bit of a problem with the review system in cricket, that moment we all watch sport for is the sudden adrenaline rush you get when your team scores/takes a wicket. Now every decision is going to be question and it's going to lead to a massive sanitisation of the game. Plus, isn't the controversy part of what we love about football?

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

I thought that making up arrangements that were actually worse than the s*** we've already got would be quite a challenge but they've succeeded in that in style.

What they seem to have done is to increase the number of t***s. Previously, football was officiated by a t**t, with two assistant t***s (linesman) and a fourth official who oversees substitutions and Clattenburg time. Now we have two more t***s whose job seems to be to let players argue with the other t***s' decisions and change them if they make enough noise. Rooney must be ecstatic.

I can only assume that someone's got an agenda for producing "evidence" that video technology doesn't help in order to get the idea kyboshed.

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Another ballsup in extra time in the Confederations Cup, Chile v Portugal. Challenge by Fonte should've been a penalty but the ref didn't see it or review it. If he thought it wasn't a penalty he should have booked the Chilean forward, but didn't.

Shambles.

Portugal out on penalty kicks, BTW. My heart bleeds.

Edited by chateauferret (28 Jun 2017 9.39pm)

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Referees continually balls up the offside rule, the simulation rules and even, in specific cases, the advantage rule.

The VAR rule has the same, intrinsic issue of being a rule that has to be adjudicated by w***ers in black, with added complication of technology. Give them time, they'll still f*** it up at a frequency that will be head-scratching, but they'll get the time-wastage down.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Confederations cup topped off with blatant stone wall red card not given despite HAD review. Beyond farcical. Looks like referees are so incompetent or so.biased they can't even give obvious decisions when they're put in their laps. F***ing pathetic.

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In the Confed Cup, the only thing that was proven was, "Opinions are like toucises, everybody has one. Add in the incessant barracking from pundits and you get a shambles. Goal line technology is definite, either it is or it isn't. Whether a foul requires further discipline and what level it should be is subjective. In the Germany - Chile match I'm sure that before kick off the officials were told to be absolutely sure before sending a player off. I'm not surprised that the ref showed yellow instead of red, it happens all the time. If the primary purpose of VAR is to remove controversy from officiating decisions then they might as well call in Mr. Phelps and his Impossible Missions force.

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