Premier League

Special guest refs would be a good idea.

It’d have to be lower league players in order to meet their wage demands, and to remove suggestions of bias.

Failed idea from start.

Selfish footballers, can’t let normal people take any jobs in football these days

Oh aye lets get Niall Quinn and Agbonlahor in for a Man United game that’ll be a laugh

Roy Keane on VAR. Nothing is a foul, everybody just needs to get up and shake it off.

Or maybe (hear me out) use independent 3rd party company?

I really think the answer is for each team to have one VAR challenge per half/game. If it is a successful challenge, you get another, if not, you are done.

It would stop diving because you wouldn’t want your team to waste their challenge. And the light var calls would be removed as people wouldn’t want to risk losing their challenge.

Christ, yea lets make sure to bring in people who have long and deeply ingrained biases, that'll improve things.

Fuck off you bald cunt

Foreign players with no history of English football connections. And no secrets to be leveraged by mysteries betting rings. Or how about ex players from a completely different sport?

Great idea. we've seen from their punditry that they are without bias.

Vinnie Jones with Roy Keane on VAR would be pretty great.

We all know that VAR is fallible. So when half a dozen "suspect" VAR decisions cost some poor manager his job will Howard and his chums stump up the cash to feed his family? The other point to consider is the cost...in the good old days we paid for ref and 2 linesmen. Then we had those 3 plus a guy to hold up signs...now we have those 4 plus an unknown number of other officials getting paid for ruining the game.

Lemme guess.. Owen, Carragher and Neville?

Oh great, I'm sure it'll be much better when they have Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher refereeing.

How has Howard Webb got this much power? Wasn’t he a shit ref as well? Bin them all off and get another sport like rugby or cricket to set the foundation for how refereeing should be done

Create accessible training for future referees, have it pay very well, have exclusivity clause (if that’s legal) and hold them accountable.

Say 40k for every PL game. If you perform poorly you lose your spot and go down. Now you get 30k per game. Perform well you can be promoted.

Need Matt Le Tissier. He’ll stop VAR ruining the game by insisting their footage is airbrushed.

Please not someone like Rio Ferdinand

Omg, Zlatan please

The national ice hockey league in North America (NHL) has been doing this for years. Former players are in the VAR studio assisting the referees in reviewing video.

In an interview, they said that former players are better at spotting cheating, such as dives or fouls with intent to injure.

Looking forward to Rio Ferdinand on VAR seeing a player straight up assaulting an opponent and then just say "nothing in that". Wait, we already have that today...

If that plan is put into force, then the best option, I think, is maybe an ex-player who has never played in England?

Good idea, but as long as they’re able to take side jobs working abroad I won’t trust them.

Scousers did not stop whinging for the weeks prior to the game at City because the ref was born in Manchester.

Nobody could handle the levels of salt that would overflow Liverpool and flood the whole of the UK if it was an ex player.

Sounds like placating pundits who keep asking for it. It would be years until someone gets to the premier league level and if they did anyone would claim bias

Maybe just improve the standard of officiating? The last thing we need is Michael Owen on VAR duty

Ridiculous. Obviously ex-players are always lobbying for this but they surely they need specialists whether ex-players or not.

High performing clubs hire analysts with PhDs or similar to perform highly specialised roles. Why have a different standard for video refereeing? Get a nerd who can master and improve the tech’s capabilities, knows the laws of the game inside out and can proactively be good at the job as their chosen profession. Rather than relying on people who rose through the refereeing ranks or playing ranks.

Only because he's been pressured to

r/whatcouldgowrong

How do they find it so difficult is my honest question.

Watching it at home with the same access to footage as VAR has the decision is 95% of the time generally a consensus with viewers and pundits but yet VAR manages to just be totally out of touch with the popular opinion and is even internally inconsistent.

Rugby Union absolutely nailed video refereeing, and despite Webb not agreeing, football has to learn whatever lessons it can from rugby. Clear, understandable, quick decisions, very high success rate, and actually benefits the drama when done right.

I think dion Dublin would be perfect.

He has played as both a defender and forward

I would like to see roy keane in the VAR room

Can just imagine Jack Grealish or Kevin De Bruyne retiring after earning £400k a week for over a decade to become a ref for 1% of that for the love of the game.

Great idea Howard 👍🏻

(I'm well aware that lower tier players are also going to be targeted for the role as well)

So they wanna go full-Kardashians with more drama somehow? Why not just make it independent and not just a semi-retirement club?

Some ex players talk complete rubbish and have no clue…. Agbonlahor for example

🤡🤡🤡

Ahh nothing smells like bias more then ex players in the VAR room

Hey, Howard! Your tenure so far has been an unmitigated disaster. How about you do us all a favour and resign?

Howard Webb wants sacking. That is all.

Ah ok yes let's get more Manchester players

By ex-players he's clearly talking about the likes of Michael Owen and other sycophantic pundits at Sky who think Webb is the greatest thing to happen to football since Pelè.