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DJ Barry Hammond

The VAR thread

By DJ Barry Hammond, in Leicester City Forum

What are your thoughts on VAR?  

679 members have voted

  1. 1. What are your thoughts on VAR?

    • Love it, all for it, fantastic introduction to football
      109
    • Hate it, games gone
      236
    • Somewhere in between
      334

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  • Poll closed on 17/05/20 at 19:00

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Tielemans63

Tielemans63

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The thing with referees is that occasionally they get it wrong and accidentally give decisions against the big sides. VAR handily steps in to reduce such variations. All in the name of fairness and accuracy, obviously.

Free Falling Foxes

Free Falling Foxes

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The very least that VAR should have achieved was a reduction in poor decisions/mistakes. It's managed the bloody opposite.

Regarding today; perhaps we're being punished for lodging an official request into VAR following them apparently reviewing the wrong incident against Villa. Did we ever get a response to that btw?

 

 

Guest Chocolate Teapot

Guest Chocolate Teapot

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2 minutes ago, Vestan Pance said:

I'm not one for conspiracy theories but how can anyone argue against the obvious bias anymore?

 

I agree. Way too obvious now.

 

'We dont want too many leicester city's any more'

st albans fox

st albans fox

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8 minutes ago, Chester Dontlie said:

My thoughs on VAR at the moment are colourful like Man City away shirt. Makes me wanna vomit

I bet they never miss a player in their peripheral vision whereas our second kit is ......... black !!!

purpleronnie

purpleronnie

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6 minutes ago, Vestan Pance said:

I'm not one for conspiracy theories but how can anyone argue against the obvious bias anymore?

 

The fact that all the teams have had VAR helping them at some point.

 

People actually believe that people controlling VAR are in cahoots against the 'smaller' teams?...I mean come on lets be serious here.

 

The moon landings are real BTW.

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Leicester_Loyal

Leicester_Loyal

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17 minutes ago, Izzy said:

VAR is definitely making football a worse game to watch. Can’t remember a season I’ve enjoyed watching less than this one.

Spot on, same for me aswell. At least when Leicester were doing shit I enjoyed other games, I don’t even enjoy that anymore because it’s just continual bad decisions even whilst using VAR technology. 

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Guest ttfn

Guest ttfn

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Jumped the shark in the West Ham home game for me when it didn’t overturn their penalty.

 

Personally I think that was a penalty today against us. Praet has made his body bigger and the laws as they (stupidly) are, that’s a penalty.

 

But we’ve been absolutely screwed over time and again by VAR’s inconsistency with getting involved in anything remotely subjective:

 

Mane penalty at Anfield

Vardy “dive” against Watford

Ndidi “foul” against West Ham

Mee handball against Burnley

Nakamba handball against Aston Villa.

 

These are all very clear and obvious errors that haven’t been overturned. There are of course others that we’ve benefited from (and suffered from) that we’ve not had but they’ve tended to be in some way within the realms of subjectivity. There’s no excuse for the ones I’ve listed above and to give a penalty against Praet today after the explanation we got for the non-award of the penalty in the League Cup

semi (as much as I think it was one) really sticks in the craw.

theessexfox

theessexfox

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It's almost funny looking back at the De Bruyne and the Praet handballs, and the decisions they respectively came to. There's not much point discussing it really, it seemed completely stacked against us today and there's nothing we can do about it.

Stinkenzo

Stinkenzo

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It's understandable that there is no consistency in the decisions when you have somebody different sat behind the TV screens every game. That is something that needs to change without a doubt. However there is no excuse when two similar incidents in the same match watched by the same crook of a referee have different outcomes.

Chester Dontlie

Chester Dontlie

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Just now, Leicester_Loyal said:

Scrap the whole thing or use it purely for offsides. It’s ruining football for me at the moment, too many variables and it’s purely someones opinion on an incident rather than fact (like offside is). 

I've never fully understood the 'it's ruining football' comments, until today. First Chelsea vs Tottenham, then our first half and the referees turning a blind eye to what should be two penalties. It really kills the joy of watching the game and sucks the life out of you. To think it was supposedly introduced to make the game more fair... Call me naive. As it stands, VAR in the Prem looks like a clever scheme to give comfortable jobs to some of the most incompetent refs in the European football.

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Leicester_Loyal

Leicester_Loyal

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2 minutes ago, Chester Dontlie said:

I've never fully understood the 'it's ruining football' comments, until today. First Chelsea vs Tottenham, then our first half and the referees turning a blind eye to what should be two penalties. It really kills the joy of watching the game and sucks the life out of you. To think it was supposedly introduced to make the game more fair... Call me naive. As it stands, VAR in the Prem looks like a clever scheme to give comfortable jobs to some of the most incompetent refs in the European football.

Honestly, you can’t even celebrate goals anymore, it’s dragging all the passion out of the game (for me anyway). 

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Stinkenzo

Stinkenzo

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Just now, Unabomber said:

Did VAR even look the de Bruyne handball? Cos if so you make two different decisions for the same incident? Seems very corrupt 

Funny thing is about the De Bruyne incident is that the player should know there is a very high chance that not only is the ball going to come towards you, it might also hit you. Very possibly in the face. There should be less leniency in that situation for what De Bruyne did.

 

The Praet one, yeah its a penalty but (whoever kicked it at him) could have done anything, passed it, dummied it.

Vestan Pance

Vestan Pance

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26 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

The fact that all the teams have had VAR helping them at some point.

 

People actually believe that people controlling VAR are in cahoots against the 'smaller' teams?...I mean come on lets be serious here.

 

The moon landings are real BTW.

Well like it or not (intentional or not) the bias is clear.

I also said I'm not one for conspiracy theories BTW.

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