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Gary Lineker, Match of the Day: I don't like VAR any more (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As someone who was against VAR from the start, I'm pleased to see someone as high profile as Lineker come out and admit he was wrong about it and has changed his mind. Fingers crossed this continues and we can start to move towards getting rid of it.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Seeing as we have seen successful and fairly painless implementations of VAR (such as World Cup 2018) it seems to me the issue is (as always) more a matter of the quality of the referees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I agree with you. The inconsistencies also cause a lot of confusion and delay imo. To me at least, it hasn’t made the game worse to watch at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

PL has made impossible for VAR to be successful:

They simply don't pay them enough so the good talent drops out in the grassroots level.

Then they also have same idiots on the pitch and in the booth instead of seperate ones.

And then they also have so many restrictions on what VAR can and can't do.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

I don't agree that it was painless at 2018, it was IMO just as annoying, inconsistent and intrusive as anywhere else.