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Is VAR going to cost the league popularity in the long term? (alien.top)

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A debate is currently occurring about if it would be better to scrap VAR now of risk people turning off the sport due to time delays and bizarre decisions VAR Is making.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Statistically though it does technically reduce the mistakes, the issue is that they even still make them and in many of those cases they weren't even on subjective ones.

My personal hangup with VAR is around the rule that contact = foul and if they show a freeze frame or a slow mo, it removes the context altogether.

I don't think anything will ever stop people not liking decisions or consistency because there will always be subjective ones and people will always remember the bad ones especially against their own teams. But again that happened with general refereeing, people remember the hand of god, the Lampard goal against Germany and the Henry handball against Ireland. VAR would arguably have caught all those.