Forums
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
G Hall
30 Aug 25 13:10
Joined:
Date Joined: 26 Feb 06
| Topic/replies: 12,251 | Blogger: G Hall's blog
VAR, is a license to cheat, the beautiful game is dead and buried.

Fulham should have walked off the pitch, until someone takes that stance then soccer is finished.

Post your reply

Text Format: Table: Smilies:
Forum does not support HTML
Insert Photo
Cancel
Page 1 of 2  •  Previous 1 | 2 | Next
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 47
By:
ImSoLuckyLucky!
When: 30 Aug 25 13:22
Which knob was the var referee?
Shocked
By:
G Hall
When: 30 Aug 25 13:26
Rob Jones
By:
Storm Alert
When: 30 Aug 25 13:31
Atrocious VAR intervention there. Refs must be petrified of VAR, hard to understand why he didn't tell Jones to do one, with his pathetic take on events.
By:
TheSpyofJackdawsCastle
When: 30 Aug 25 13:32
I agree the initial aim of VAR was for pens and key foals etc…now if your thumb is offside then goal is disallowed…..it’s bollox and ruining the game
By:
DixieDean60
When: 30 Aug 25 13:32
Rob Jones is the useless on field ref who didn't have the balls to stand by his original decision to award the goal.

Michael Salisbury is apparently the idiot in the VAR booth (according to the EPL website) who told the ref to have a look.
By:
duffy
When: 30 Aug 25 14:13
Unfortunately only the Wolves manager has a right to complain about VAR as all the other 19 clubs voted to keep it.
By:
Poppydog.
When: 30 Aug 25 14:21
In its early form VAR seemed an innocent way to create fairness,
however it is quickly forming a dark side,
where it is used to strengthen the dominance of the big Sky 6 sides.

Fulham have been shafted by VAR twice in a week (Yoro/Chalobah)
By:
Poppydog.
When: 30 Aug 25 14:25
Eze's wonder free-kick was disallowed by VAR for some decade old rule that had never been implemented
Small team lose out to big team
By:
DIE LINKE
When: 30 Aug 25 14:32
abba21 likes this thread
By:
s.kenbo
When: 30 Aug 25 14:39
Under 2.5. He will be livid. His poor cat!

It’s inept, not corrupt imo.
By:
DIE LINKE
When: 30 Aug 25 14:40
cannae stand pocket-talkers.
By:
s.kenbo
When: 30 Aug 25 14:41
Low self esteem and zero dignity is the cause of that!
By:
LoyalHoncho
When: 30 Aug 25 15:28
“It is quickly”?  Nothing quick about VAR, in any sense.  Been around in England since 19/20 and was a waste of time almost from day one.  When will we see the first 110 minute match?  Can’t be far off.
It is a farce and someone up there must be benefitting from it somehow otherwise it would have been dumped by now.
By:
s.kenbo
When: 30 Aug 25 16:14
As Duffy alluded to earlier, every team recently had the chance to dump VAR from the EPL, every team bar Wolves voted to keep it. Very silly.
By:
abba21
When: 30 Aug 25 19:30
Leeds 0 Newcastle 0
By:
s.kenbo
When: 30 Aug 25 19:39
Unlucky, kid!
By:
abba21
When: 30 Aug 25 19:41
Bookies dont rely on luck
By:
everyone's a winner
When: 30 Aug 25 20:00
bookies make sure odds are in their favour with a built in over-round. we can't do that. it's just a question of deciding if we think a certain price is a back or a lay or leave alone
By:
s.kenbo
When: 30 Aug 25 20:19
Not another corrupt game!

You may as well try and explain string theory to him, EOAW, he’d understand that as much as he did over-rounds!
By:
Ibrahima Sonko
When: 30 Aug 25 20:43
I thought it should had been a yellow card at least.
By:
Flemenstar
When: 30 Aug 25 23:24
maybe fans should protest instead of greedily snapping up tickets. The clubs want VAR as per the last recent vote where 19 of the 20 PL clubs voted in favour of it. Hitting them in their pockets would soon sort it out
By:
duffy
When: 30 Aug 25 23:37
A national agreement across all fanbases to boycott one set of fixtures, set it up for a couple of months time and let the narrative build momentum all the way up to the boycott....it would be a massive story and one similar to when fans across the board banded together against the Super league that displayed real power.
By:
LoyalHoncho
When: 31 Aug 25 01:18
Great idea, which, if it caught on world-wide, might just work.
By:
Racingqueen
When: 31 Aug 25 08:47
Modern football is no longer a sport but an entertainment business. VAR is a tool to create this entertainment.

I remember when football was basically one match on tv at the weekend and media analysis was at max a 1 hour show on a few channels.

Now its social media morons pouring out dog5hit content 24/7 and paralysis by drivel analysis by morons like Neville and Keane

Call me an old fogey but I'd happily have those days again where you had a magazine show like Gazetta Football Italia or Revista de la liga and at max 2 matches at the weekend.
By:
Racingqueen
When: 31 Aug 25 08:50
The customer btw for this business is not the English football fan, its the tourist fans who are spending big money from China, Japan, US etc...
More Media income is now derived from foreign TV media than domestic for the first time and that will only get bigger.
By:
raspberrybottom
When: 31 Aug 25 08:51
Agree!
By:
raspberrybottom
When: 31 Aug 25 08:55
Far too much "analysis" before, during and after games.

Most of it pointless drivel.

And far too many games on TV every week - but it's all about money.

As for VAR, the basic idea of VAR is good but the various ways it's being implemented is awful.

Wouldn't take much to come up with a proper structure for it but the powers that be seem unable to do it!

It's so inconsistent nobody seems to know what the original guidelines were.
By:
Whisperingdeath
When: 31 Aug 25 10:02
I would give the team manager two challenges like in cricket.

That would answer two problems,. The flow of the game and sanctimonious managers and fans blaming the ref all the time.
By:
SirNorbertClarke
When: 31 Aug 25 11:49
VAR has turned football into a comic drama. I think it's great Grin
By:
abba21
When: 31 Aug 25 13:13
Everyonea winner

bookies make sure odds are in their favour with a built in over-round. we can't do that. it's just a question of deciding if we think a certain price is a back or a lay or leave alone

Do the books make var look a certain games and not others come on lad goals cost money.
By:
G Hall
When: 13 Sep 25 17:51
Here we go again tottenham goal disallowed against West ham the game is fcuked
By:
The Dragon
When: 13 Sep 25 17:55
cricket the same,,watch how livingstone was given out to allow a somerset win...total disgraceDevil
By:
Deptford
When: 13 Sep 25 18:00
How was that goal chalked off? Scandal
By:
G Hall
When: 13 Sep 25 18:16
Nobody calls it out for what it is corruption
By:
G Hall
When: 13 Sep 25 18:20
The var official made his decision almost immediately, therefore he didn't really look at it.
By:
Deptford
When: 13 Sep 25 18:21
Needs a team to walk off
By:
G Hall
When: 13 Sep 25 18:32
Yes Deptford
By:
The Dragon
When: 13 Sep 25 18:32
it needs to go
By:
Deptford
When: 13 Sep 25 18:45
Thick East End koonts clapping him off Laugh
Page 1 of 2  •  Previous 1 | 2 | Next
sort by:
Show
per page

Post your reply

Text Format: Table: Smilies:
Forum does not support HTML
Insert Photo
Cancel
‹ back to topics
www.betfair.com