New Posts For Thread: VAR has ruined football?https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-footballWatching replays of yesteryear, the instant excitement of fans when the ref points to the centre circle after a 'goal' is the whole pleasure of the game. And really, how many times can you say your team was robbed back in the day? It wasn't often andMoney has ruined the game YOU need Var as goals were been disallowed a mile on sidehttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-football?post_id=564785837#564785837Money has ruined the game YOU need Var as goals were been disallowed a mile on sideFri, 13 Jun 2025 14:43:49 -0500By the way. I can promise you all, the referees in the Premier League (and the wider pro game) do not referee the way they want to. They referee the way they're told toIt leads to a degree of consistency, but that does arguably translate into consisehttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-football?post_id=564785705#564785705By the way. I can promise you all, the referees in the Premier League (and the wider pro game) do not referee the way they want to. They referee the way they're told toIt leads to a degree of consistency, but that does arguably translate into consiseFri, 13 Jun 2025 13:52:02 -0500The game is refereed out of fear. There's a 'thing' called 'safe refereeing'Safe refereeing is a strategy employed by all professional and semi-professional referees. It's based on the premise that we get less grief for disallowing contentious goalshttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-football?post_id=564785695#564785695The game is refereed out of fear. There's a 'thing' called 'safe refereeing'Safe refereeing is a strategy employed by all professional and semi-professional referees. It's based on the premise that we get less grief for disallowing contentious goalsFri, 13 Jun 2025 13:49:19 -0500Automated offside buzzing the Assistant Referee has potential to improve the speed of offside decisions. Most post-goal forensics that kill spontaneity are offside toenail jobsAs a Referee, I think everyone forgets just how different incidents look fhttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-football?post_id=564785677#564785677Automated offside buzzing the Assistant Referee has potential to improve the speed of offside decisions. Most post-goal forensics that kill spontaneity are offside toenail jobsAs a Referee, I think everyone forgets just how different incidents look fFri, 13 Jun 2025 13:35:48 -0500You can't correct every wrong decision because some of them are subjective.So not wrong but an acceptable decision based on what happened. 2 refs may differ, that's the kind of decision you stick with onfieldhttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-football?post_id=564783231#564783231You can't correct every wrong decision because some of them are subjective.So not wrong but an acceptable decision based on what happened. 2 refs may differ, that's the kind of decision you stick with onfieldThu, 12 Jun 2025 07:11:31 -0500If it's there to correct wrong decisions it should be used to correct all wrong decisions not just a select few. The Belgium corner that wasn't v. Wales for example. Then the game would only last about 4 hours. Just dump it.https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-football?post_id=564783223#564783223If it's there to correct wrong decisions it should be used to correct all wrong decisions not just a select few. The Belgium corner that wasn't v. Wales for example. Then the game would only last about 4 hours. Just dump it.Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:08:23 -0500And why do they often ask referees to go to the screen?Because they feel the ref has made an error, and ref is given another chanceto get it right, in their opinion.https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-football?post_id=564783189#564783189And why do they often ask referees to go to the screen?Because they feel the ref has made an error, and ref is given another chanceto get it right, in their opinion.Thu, 12 Jun 2025 06:57:47 -0500A number of things have ruined watching football for me, VAR being one. It was for me the last straw.Players diving, rolling around in apparent agony for 5 minutes from a kick in the shin ,arguing every call by officials, celebrating goals for 5 minuhttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-football?post_id=564783157#564783157A number of things have ruined watching football for me, VAR being one. It was for me the last straw.Players diving, rolling around in apparent agony for 5 minutes from a kick in the shin ,arguing every call by officials, celebrating goals for 5 minuThu, 12 Jun 2025 06:45:38 -0500Yeah there's clear video of him standing on goalies hand, that wasnthighlited at time, as var didn't get involved.Maybe the ref got lucky, but he likely also learnt a lesson to not blowso quickly....Meanwhile forest player in hospital after late flaghttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-football?post_id=564783125#564783125Yeah there's clear video of him standing on goalies hand, that wasnthighlited at time, as var didn't get involved.Maybe the ref got lucky, but he likely also learnt a lesson to not blowso quickly....Meanwhile forest player in hospital after late flagThu, 12 Jun 2025 06:29:24 -0500Refereeing the game of football is much more of an art than a science. But VAR necessitates that it's a science, but the Laws of the Game are not fit for this new purposeThere's some quite brilliant individuals out there. It takes enormous substancehttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31874961/var-has-ruined-football?post_id=564783111#564783111Refereeing the game of football is much more of an art than a science. But VAR necessitates that it's a science, but the Laws of the Game are not fit for this new purposeThere's some quite brilliant individuals out there. It takes enormous substanceThu, 12 Jun 2025 06:20:35 -0500