Not lived up to the last tie yet but heres hoping!!
I assume VAR is on show tonight! (corrected)
I assume VAR is on show tonight! (corrected)
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What with my eyesight????.?I could have reffed that from the centre circle!!! Minty on the mic sat in the club bar as my VAR!!!
Brilliant VAR intervention. Ref says "so whaddya want me to do", gets the reply from Swarbrick and then proceeds to have a word with the two players... rather than at least caution for throwing the opponent to the ground. Brilliant - now throwing your opponent to the ground is given a green light by the video assistant. I look forward to dealing with that on Sunday morning!
Again, you say it worked "correctly". That is not the point. There was a clear offence. The VAR reviewed it, the offence was not punished. Tens of thousands of people in the stadium and millions more at home had no idea what was going on. And millions of them will assume what they saw was not an offence.He isn't allowed to caution based on the VAR rules being used. So unless the VAR told him that it was VC, which it wasn't, this was an example of it working correctly. There are set criteria, and a missed caution isn't one of them.
Again, you say it worked "correctly". That is not the point. There was a clear offence. The VAR reviewed it, the offence was not punished. Tens of thousands of people in the stadium and millions more at home had no idea what was going on. And millions of them will assume what they saw was not an offence.
It was a massive VAR fail again. Yes, it was "correct" by the procedure in place but it was also a disaster and a total embarrassment!
This week, in the two UK games I have seen, VAR has failed because of inconclusive cameras, bad procedure, poor communications. Keep saying it's correct if that works for you. Wity respect, SS
This seems to contradict what Rusty says above - does the Prem have different guidelines from the IFAB?I haven't seen this incident if a clear yellow card incident is identified during a allowable review, the referee must caution. You cant initiate a review for a yellow card.
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This seems to contradict what Rusty says above - does the Prem have different guidelines from the IFAB?
Not necessarily. It has to be a CLEAR yellow card. Rusty said a 'potential'. As i said, I haven't seen the incident.This seems to contradict what Rusty says above - does the Prem have different guidelines from the IFAB?
The game was stopped and Atkinson was listening to VAR for a while, presumably about a possible Chelsea penalty that had just occurred.
If VAR thought it was a penalty, Atkinson should have:
a) taken the advice
b) reviewed the incident pitch-side
The game was stopped and they talked... then nothing happened?
If VAR didn't think it was a penalty - they shouldn't have been talking.
My understanding is you can initiate a review if you suspect it was a red or below. But you can't review if you suspect it was a yellow or below.What if it was a review for a red card offence? Like a violent shove? Is that VARable???