Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Slotification of Liverpool is nearly complete

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Me too.

All this "spirit of the game" shyt is good to say until your team benefits from it.

I'm prepared as an Arsenal fan to be screwed over by VAR at least once knowing that at least once I'm gonna benefit from it

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Takes too much away from the game. Eventually people are going to stop getting emotionally invested in goals, because they might get overturned because of VAR.

I just don’t think it’s a good thing for the sport overall.
 

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VAR is a good tool, but the implementation is terrible. It shouldn't be used to reverse marginal decisions, or incidental ones. The guy wasn't even looking at the ball when it brushed his arm. By the letter of the law, sure it's a handball, but the rule itself is poor. Players need to just start aiming at their opponents arms as soon as they get into the box based off this.
 

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VAR is doing it's job but I hate it because you can't celebrate goals in the moment anymore.

Before you could quickly look over at the linesman and enjoy the goal, now you have to pray there was nothing wrong after they review the whole build up :francis:


Last week I didn't even jump up for that Pogba to Rashford goal because I had to see the replay from every single angle to make sure it will stand.
 

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Given all this VAR insanity, City really only have themselves to blame for dropping points. They should've iced this match an hour before that even happened.
 
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VAR is a good tool, but the implementation is terrible. It shouldn't be used to reverse marginal decisions, or incidental ones. The guy wasn't even looking at the ball when it brushed his arm. By the letter of the law, sure it's a handball, but the rule itself is poor. Players need to just start aiming at their opponents arms as soon as they get into the box based off this.

I might be wrong about this, but I think all VAR does is expose holes in the original rulebook. FIFA needs to change the letter of the law on handball, and probably on offsides and penalties as well.

I don't want to see goals called back because some dude had half his wrist ahead of the last defender as he turned to chase a pass down.
 
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