Who would want to be a referee after watching that?
Because the fans still felt aggrieved. Fans will always feel aggrieved. Introducing technology which fundamentally changes the way we experience watching football won’t stop fans being pissed off at officials. It also makes them more likely to jump to accusations of corruption when VAR doesn’t make the “correct”’ call. So it all seems utterly pointless.
I can barely think of anything more sad than reacting like this over a professional sports game.
Whoever decided football needs VAR, evidently.
The point isn't to completely eliminate instances where fans disagree with a decision against their team. It's to dramatically reduce blatantly incorrect decisions that turn games on their head, of which we used to see several on a weekly basis before VAR.
We’re still seeing horrible decisions every single weekend. Talk to Brighton or West Ham fans. Feck it, it feels like United have been denied more nailed on penalties than in any season I can remember.
It’s been introduced to get a higher proportion of decisions correct. It hasn’t been introduced to stop biased fans ever feeling aggrieved and solve all ills. You’ve just decided to say it has in order to have yet another tirade against VAR. Yesterday it worked very well. It overturned a bad decision that was incorrect late in a European final that would have unjustly won the game. That’s the point. That’s clearly a good thing. It stopped an incorrect outcome. It didn’t ruin the flow of the game in doing so either - because there was no flow due to the immense shithousery on show. And if VAR wasn’t there you’d have far more people justifying what happened to Taylor and supporting Mourinho. As it is there wasn’t any actual controversy and most people are recognising him for the manipulative gaslighting cnut he is.
Perhaps one could argue that fans seeing their coach harrassing a referee in a parking lot may think, wow that's a good idea, let's also harras the ref?
His talk has consequences. Of course he shouldn't be jailed but if he's waiting for a ref in a parking lot nobody should be surprised some lowlifes thought harassing a ref in an airport is a great idea.
I get where you are coming from but the "fans" we can see in the video all look like grown up adults to me.
Yeah that's fair enough.
If you want to referee at the highest level you should expect to be attacked, especially in airport departures
I don't think so. VAR has corrected a lot of wrong decisions. They do miss a few here and there, and this makes a lot of noise because it is VAR, but in general, there are much fewer mistakes than before.
It would've taken less effort to find out what actually happened than to make this post where you admit to be uninformed.
The state of this.
That is a quality post
It kind of is actually but Mourinho probably made it worse yeah
Calm down people, i know it's hard to tell on the Caf these days but i am pretty sure VO is just being sarcastic.
Not sure if you're referring to here but i haven't heard anyone wanting him jailed? Fined/disciplined/even sancitoned yeah which is fair enough. He needs to take a high level of responsibility with his actions, which would influence "some group of lowlifes".
Thanks. It means a lot to be named alongside some of the best to ever do it.
Wait what have I done
Oh, it's a genuine tactic before the game even kicks off. Just as important to him as the formation. I think he's been a net negative on the game. His first stint at Chelsea was incredible. I remember that time as a United fan and I felt hopeless because they were so good. What he did at Inter, too. But I stand by my opinion that he's genuinely been a negative influence and the game will be better when he decides to feck off.
Yeah, awful. 2 hours that I will never get back. It was more like wwe. Mourinho is just bad for the game.
At least one genius called it
And you deem the action that happened was appropriate?
Few bellends represent the whole club?
I'm surprised anyone still had any respect for Mourinho.
