DML wrote:Do feel VAR has made a whole swathe of fans into utter babies who now have sonething to blame every possible ill (whether real or not) on.
The luxury of getting to break down a decision weeks after. I think there needs to be lower league ref week just so the Prem can experience some of that!
I have to disagree with you that VAR has made fans into "babies" - we had
exactly the same arguments pre-VAR and even begged for video reviews to come in. In my opinion the problems are:
i) an unrealistic expectation (on the consumers' part - and I use that word advisedly) that everything will always be right
ii) batshit minutiae meaning a horror tackle gets ignored but a marginal offside gets over-analysed
iii) not changing rules or their implementation to reflect the data available to the referee at the time.
I think (iii) is the biggest problem to be fair - offsides and backpasses and the like are all relatively modern innovations, and offside in particular is a very moveable feast - so it's churlish to believe we play the same game as the Old Etonians in the Victorian era. Every single rule VAR adjudicates was devised before VAR was a thing, but nobody wants to change anything.
In fairness there's nothing stopping you breaking down EFL decisions other than a paucity of footage and angles. The fact that Howard Webb treats the PL to Pravda TV every few weeks isn't something to envy, believe me!