[Football] Large majority of UK fans oppose continued use of VAR......

[tronnogull]

Almost two-thirds of English fans 'oppose' VAR

Almost two-thirds of supporters oppose the use of the video assistant referee (VAR) system in English football, a new survey shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

I'm surprised it isn't a higher percentage against VAR......

 

[bluenitsuj]

Irrelavant as the fans don't matter

 

[Badger]

I'm not against VAR. I'm against how VAR is being used in the Premier League.

If they just overruled clear and obvious mistakes, I'm sure most people wouldn't have a problem with it.

Offsides which aren't based on 2mm of your toe being in front of the defender.
Whether a foul is inside or outside the box.
Clear red cards for violent conduct.
Only the most blatent of handballs.
etc.

If there's any doubt, stick with the onfield decision.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

One man’s ‘clear and obvious’ is another man’s ‘not a chance in hell the ref got that wrong.’

 

[HeaviestTed]

Im only against it when it doesn’t go in our favour.

 

[dadams2k11]

One man’s ‘clear and obvious’ is another man’s ‘not a chance in hell the ref got that wrong.’

This.

I always thought the attacker always got the benefit of the doubt so we saw more goals....

That soon got forgotten.

There should be a margin for the attacker, and if they are not in that margin, then no goal.

None of this offside by a layer of leather.

 

[schmunk]

I am for the concept of VAR, but against the current implementation.

 

[Mustafa II]

Genuinely think we would miss if it were gone now.

Too late to go back.

VAR has made a lot of bad decisions, but I think if we were to get rid of it we would be reminded how so many of the decisions were even worse.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Very much against it.
Sucking the enjoyment out of a goal being scored.

 

[Badger]

One man’s ‘clear and obvious’ is another man’s ‘not a chance in hell the ref got that wrong.’

I'm not saying they won't still have contentious issues. That would still be the case even without VAR.

If they are spending 3 minutes looking at something from various angles, it's probably not clear and obvious.

 

[Driver8]

I would be delighted if it was scrapped. It would be great to celebrate goals again with nothing but a quick glance at the Lino.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Very much against it.
Sucking the enjoyment out of a goal being scored.

Yep

 

[Guinness Boy]

VAR is essentially for people who know that lemons are 30p each at Tesco and so go to their local one and measure them all, complaining that the smaller ones should only by 28p and then life would be much better, as opposed to people who just buy the lemon so they have something nice to put into their gin and tonic.

 

[Triggaaar]

Im only against it when it doesn’t go in our favour.

So you're always against it then

 

[timbha]

Let’s stop changing the rules every 5 minutes so as to give us football lovers a chance of knowing what VAR is trying to assess.

Then only use VAR for “very clear and obvious errors” that includes serious off the ball incidents that the referee has missed, such as violent conduct.

Offsides and handballs seem to be the biggest areas of contention, and the areas with most rule changes in recent years.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

VAR is essentially for people who know that lemons are 30p each at Tesco and so go to their local one and measure them all, complaining that the smaller ones should only by 28p and then life would be much better, as opposed to people who just buy the lemon so they have something nice to put into their gin and tonic.

This feels less like an analogy and more like an anecdote from earlier today

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Remove it in it's entirely please.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

As soon as it goes we'll be begging for it back

 

[beorhthelm]

Let’s stop changing the rules every 5 minutes so as to give us football lovers a chance of knowing what VAR is trying to assess.

Then only use VAR for “very clear and obvious errors” that includes serious off the ball incidents that the referee has missed, such as violent conduct.

Offsides and handballs seem to be the biggest areas of contention, and the areas with most rule changes in recent years.

yes, funny how these keep getting fiddled with and half the time its down to interpretation, then VAR comes along and get more wrong.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Irrelavant as the fans don't matter

Thank goodness.

Thirty years ago the same percentage thought racist abuse was just bantz.