As the World Cup organisers couldn't be arsed to arrange any football for this sunny ripe-for-beer-consumption Friday, we can get this big issue out of the way.
It's Vee Eh Are
You don't need a poll.
You have not been charged.
Barber OUT
I'd love to see some analysis done on all the VAR decisions so far in the world cup (and non-decisions).
1. How many that have gone to VAR has the correct verdict been awarded?
a. Of those, how many that gave correct did so by overturning the original decision?
2. How many decisions that have gone to VAR resulted in a correct decision being overturned?
3. How many decisions that *should* have gone to VAR (to be overturned) didn't?
And once all those numbers are available, we can then determine whether VAR has made an appreciable difference in terms of getting decisions right. Or not.
From what I can tell so far (not paid a huge amount of attention) my gut feel is that the use of VAR *has* improved the rate of correct decisions being made. But it has also, perhaps, exposed some issues with inconsistency in how the on field Refs interpret some rules (eg Handball) - both between different Refs, and between Refs and the watching public.
Not sure about that....The system is not good news for career simulator Zaha, once it reaches it the PL.
If he initiates contact with the old dangling leg routine, no pen.
I'd love to see some analysis done on all the VAR decisions so far in the world cup (and non-decisions).
1. How many that have gone to VAR has the correct verdict been awarded?
a. Of those, how many that gave correct did so by overturning the original decision?
2. How many decisions that have gone to VAR resulted in a correct decision being overturned?
3. How many decisions that *should* have gone to VAR (to be overturned) didn't?
And once all those numbers are available, we can then determine whether VAR has made an appreciable difference in terms of getting decisions right. Or not.
From what I can tell so far (not paid a huge amount of attention) my gut feel is that the use of VAR *has* improved the rate of correct decisions being made. But it has also, perhaps, exposed some issues with inconsistency in how the on field Refs interpret some rules (eg Handball) - both between different Refs, and between Refs and the watching public.