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How much responsibility does Howard Webb bears with the recent VAR controversies? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has he done enough to justify his position, should he be given more time, is VAR flawed beyond repair, is he responsible at all?

He seems more like a PR person than the Chief Refereeing Officer

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

His job is basically to allow the referees to be so bad it generates outrage clicks and he gets a show out of it, but not so bad that it leads to change and negatively affects him and his mates. Luckily for him, he has a lot of wriggle room since fans are all so tribal and every time there's a ridiculous decision, there's always enough fans happy enough that the team they dislike got screwed that they'll be happy to support the current setup. Until the next week where their team are screwed over and their rivals are too busy gloating.