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RE: VAR, I've actually really enjoyed how it's been used tbh. Big fan.
RE: VAR, I've actually really enjoyed how it's been used tbh. Big fan.
Yeah I find it hard to explain too. But it’s not just us, a football crowd celebrates goals with far more passion than a cricket crowd does wickets.It is far from the only issue and as you say there are many reasons that cricket is better suited to it than football (it is a series of self contained events etc) but it is a fair point that the celebration thing is objectively the same, it just does not feel the same way to me. I guess the way I treat the sports is just so different, I would say that a goal is more momentous than a wicket but getting Smith out is obviously as big a moment as any goal. Maybe I am just not used to it in Football but then I can't really remember it ever bothering me all that much in cricket. Basically I can't explain why, it just feels different.
You are right that this is the game everyone’s chosen. I would say that VAR is one symptom of the game being taken too seriously, and money is another.Tbh while I agree that fans need to grow up and get over decisions, the football isn't important enough argument doesn't really stand when so much money and so many people's livelihoods live and die on the basis of these margins. People made their minds up about that matter a long time ago.
Yeah you're right in that respect. I guess you can argue it's probably much more important when it comes to relegations and the like than CL finals.You are right that this is the game everyone’s chosen. I would say that VAR is one symptom of the game being taken too seriously, and money is another.
But does all the money make it more important? I think it makes it less important, in the same way that a high stakes poker game between trillionaires matters less than whether a single mother loses her minimum wage job. Whose livelihood was threatened if Liverpool didn’t get a penalty for Sissoko’s handball?
Why not? In the absence of VAR the ref would still have to make a decision on it, and that call (whatever it would be) would be just as "definitive" as any assisted by VAR.My biggest gripe with VAR is that the laws, particularly the offside law, just aren't written with it in mind.
There 100% needs to be a football version of umpire's call for VAR though. Disallowing goals because a player is millimetres offside (Man City's on the opening weekend for example) is a nonsense because the frame rate of the replays is not high enough to make decisions definitively. For that particular decision, the actual moment the pass was made happened between two frames, during which point Sterling ran 13cm. When the margin of error is potentially that wide, you cannot be making calls as definitively as they are just now.
I love the Champions League but I often find myself thinking how much it really matters, the same teams and players are going to be there next year. I suppose Spurs might be an exception and Ajax obviously were. It is one of the reasons why World Cups still win out for me, the football might be worse but you have to wait 4 years to try and win again.You are right that this is the game everyone’s chosen. I would say that VAR is one symptom of the game being taken too seriously, and money is another.
But does all the money make it more important? I think it makes it less important, in the same way that a high stakes poker game between trillionaires matters less than whether a single mother loses her minimum wage job. Whose livelihood was threatened if Liverpool didn’t get a penalty for Sissoko’s handball?
I think it just comes down to how much it means to you as a fan really. I can recall moments from seemingly trivial moments of Arsenal matches from about 15 years ago which I remember thinking were just clearly wrong (e.g. offsides or whatever), and thinking that you never really know how much it might have ultimately influenced the result of the match or even season. There was one Henry goal against Chelsea, in the early Mourinho days, that was very dubiously disallowed and really sticks in the memory.I love the Champions League but I often find myself thinking how much it really matters, the same teams and players are going to be there next year. I suppose Spurs might be an exception and Ajax obviously were. It is one of the reasons why World Cups still win out for me, the football might be worse but you have to wait 4 years to try and win again.