Pogue Mahone
Swiftie Fan Club President
But your solution to VAR really is more VAR.It's really not. The problem we're specifically complaining about today is directly to do with the PL's interpretation of VAR as opposed to VAR as a concept, as proven by the other competitions where subjective referee decisions like the various penalty calls we've seen actually do get overturned. Hell, even the contrast between PL VAR and the VAR system we initially got at the WC makes that clear.
I get that the anti-VAR crowd want to crow a bit but there's no need to dumb down the argument by pretending VAR in one league isn't substantially different to VAR in another league, or that the PL's version doesn't have its own specific problems.
Opponents to all this nonsense are primarily motivated by the way it’s ruining the flow of the game, grinding to a halt every time there’s a significant incident in the box, while confusion reigns on the pitch and in the stands. We never gave much of a shit about this burning sense of injustice VAR proponents used to feel over human error.
To end up being told - just two weeks into the season - that the only thing stopping VAR from being a success is that there’s not enough of it is fecking hilarious.