RateTheRef

I don’t really understand the problem with this.

There was no such controversy from 2013-19 when GLT was used in some games and not others - surely, in theory at least, you want GLT plus VAR in as many games as you feasibly can, to reduce the number of wrongly assessed key incidents.

Let’s imagine that very clear penalties were missed both last night at Swindon and this afternoon at Crystal Palace by the on-field officials; would you rather:

1) there is no VAR on either game, so we have two crucial mistakes

2) there is VAR in all games it is possible to have, so after intervention if it was corrected at CP, now we only have one crucial mistake

Surely we agree it’s the second option, right?

I think the problem is that people don’t really like VAR in general (because there was never this philosophical discussion about GLT), which given the ineptitude of the PGMOL rollout in our country, is understandable.