VAR

[Winston Biscuit]

Top 2 divisions in Norway have voted to abolish VAR.

It now goes to the Norwegian FA and they will make a final decision in March

Norway to keep VAR. They held a 2nd round of voting which included all 450 member clubs of the Norweigen FA, meaning all lower division and amateur clubs got a vote, and those lot overwhelming voting for it to stay, even though it doesn't impact them.

I did also read that when the Norweigen FA ask clubs to vote on something, they also set out their own position on it and say what their desired outcome is, and its seen that the small clubs/amateur clubs generally just vote the way they are told by the FA.

[stealthpapes]

WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

two minutes later

WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

yeah, you can celebrate twice.

[Silver Fox]

Up and down weekend for VAR there. On the plus side it helped "top PL ref"* Michael Oliver clear up an attempted murder that he couldn't possibly have seen occur right in front of him. But then there was 7 minutes to eventually give up and go "dunno lol, offside?" in the Bournemouth game, which of course had Semi Automated offsides running, although apparently that one was to hard for the system

*

[Sanguine]

Had no idea that semi-automated VAR couldn't deal with *checks notes* a lot of players on the pitch. That's crazy.

Michael Oliver should be demoted for a week. That was appalling refereeing. What on earth did he (not) see?

Separately - supposedly IFAB favouring a change to offside laws that would move the line to the torso. 'The Wenger Rule', where a player is onside if any part of his body is in line with the last defender considered too much of a change, but moving line to the body will stop players being offside by their big toe.

[Sutekh]

Had no idea that semi-automated VAR couldn't deal with *checks notes* a lot of players on the pitch. That's crazy.

Michael Oliver should be demoted for a week. That was appalling refereeing. What on earth did he (not) see?

Separately - supposedly IFAB favouring a change to offside laws that would move the line to the torso. 'The Wenger Rule', where a player is onside if any part of his body is in line with the last defender considered too much of a change, but moving line to the body will stop players being offside by their big toe.

Oliver should be demoted permanently. A catalogue of poor refereeing decisions seem to have trailed him for the last couple of years such as the Hammers non penalty v Utd, the idiot dismissal of Lewis-Skelly and his dreadful handling of the Merseyside derby, now culminating in missing the attempted decapitation in the Palace game…

[Sanguine]

Alan Shearer's VAR explainer for the Premier League in 2019.

'Most of the time, you won't even notice.'

This has aged badly.

https://x.com/premierleague/status/1159447054806069249

[Silver Fox]

Little Stewie Atwell excelling at the Rumbelows Cup final yesterday. First saying nothing to see here when Trippier knocked the ball out of Diaz's path with his hand, it would have been the softest penalty ever but once you have VAR how don't you see it? But then his meisterwerk came after Chiesa's goal. Putting to one side the issue that "assistants keep their flags down" these days he did an incredible job of taking all the excitement out of the moment by not looking at the very first shot and going "clearly onside, no need for lines" I don't think Liverpool deserved anything from the game but pre-VAR that would have been 4 or 5 minutes of drama to come and who knows what might have happened

[Franchise FC]

Little Stewie Atwell excelling at the Rumbelows Cup final yesterday. First saying nothing to see here when Trippier knocked the ball out of Diaz's path with his hand, it would have been the softest penalty ever but once you have VAR how don't you see it? But then his meisterwerk came after Chiesa's goal. Putting to one side the issue that "assistants keep their flags down" these days he did an incredible job of taking all the excitement out of the moment by not looking at the very first shot and going "clearly onside, no need for lines" I don't think Liverpool deserved anything from the game but pre-VAR that would have been 4 or 5 minutes of drama to come and who knows what might have happened

Sorry to burst your bubble, but pre-VAR that goal is disallowed (because the assistant flagged it offside, eventually ) and the last 4-5 minutes would have been no drama whatsoever
However, he clearly took 2 minutes 25 seconds too long to get the decision

[Silver Fox]

I know that, maybe the lineo would have done a better job pre-VAR though, impossible to say

[Sutekh]

Delayed yet again

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer ... r-hold-up/

Isn’t this technology used in Europe? So how the hell is it taking so long to get working over here?

[Sanguine]

English referees are getting scared of their own shadow. I firmly believe that the delays in the Chiesa decision at the weekend were wholly about not fcuking it up. They are doubting their own minds now. It's incompetence, plain and simple.

[Whore Jackie]

PL / PGMOL chose to use a different semi-automated offside technology than UEFA or FIFA. No idea why they just don't wait until the 2025-26 season to introduce it now.

[Sutekh]

PL / PGMOL chose to use a different semi-automated offside technology than UEFA or FIFA. No idea why they just don't wait until the 2025-26 season to introduce it now.

Why choose something different to what’s already working elsewhere across Europe

The PGMOL/PL deserve every criticism they get.

[genome]

While I don't disagree with the sentiment above, I don't think I've ever seen a post of Sutekh's where he wasn't moaning

[Snowflake Royal]

Knowing some local refs and their development officer, it's really nit a surprise everything that lot do is a shambles.