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Re: The VAR thread
« Reply #30 on: Sun 06 Jan 2019 16:31 »
It seems that the use of VAR in England will more commonly involve the referee simply accepting the information from the VAR rather than going to the screen as we saw at the World Cup.

I know this has raised debate on here previously.

Personally I generally prefer the process of the referee going to the monitor, partly because it is more standardised across the world. I also think it helps preserve the referee's authority if they are the one making the decision and prevents cases of a referee making a decision they wouldn't actually have given with the benefit of replays, whilst also making it clearer to the crowd/viewers who then know to expect the decision to be changed rather than a yellow card suddenly becoming a red card as happened at Palace today for instance. I can understand the arguments for not incorporating this element however.

I still think the end objective has to be to mic the officials up so everyone can hear what is being discussed to help fill the time waiting for the decision.

I presume UEFA will follow a policy more closely related to that which we saw in the World Cup when VAR is introduced in the Champions League next month.

Biased, yes perhaps, but I applaud the decision of Martin Atkinson, via the VAR, to change from a yellow card to a red in the second minute of the Palace v Grimsby game. OK, a second rate game but the decision to change needed to be made and was perfectly correct, as TV replays showed. If only VAR had been available to Taylor when Kompany launched himself into a very similar tackle in the top-of-the PL game at City the other day.