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Watched two matches: Chelsea Vs Brighton & City Vs Tottenham and both games had huge referee-ing errors at the end..How did Brighton not get a corner kick when the ball clearly hits a Chelsea player and goes out the line...And why did the referee stop Silva's 1v1 chance against Tottenham to award a foul in favour of city...I am neither a brighton nor a city fan but both these decisions angered me so bad...And these smug referees just walk out with their satisfied punchable faces playing with the feelings of the fans and sanctity of our league...This is probably one of the most exciting seasons in recent times and yet we can't enjoy it to the fullest coz of these incompetent referees...PL should just fire all English referees and import referees from other countries...

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

You're misunderstanding - VAR is still just a ref who will sometimes make bad calls. It changes nothing other than adding time to the game. It's just a ref in a different room with exactly the same potential for bad decision making. It was only a few weeks ago that Mike Dean said he didn't give a VAR call that he knew the ref had missed because he didn't want to make it difficult for his mate.

VAR will sometimes get it right, in the same way that an on-field ref will, so what's the point? VAR achieves nothing but slowing the game down and ruining goal celebrations.