Sky_Blue_Dreamer
Well-Known Member
Out of the most recent penalty / non penalty incidents the Derby one given was softer than the Hull Gyok wrestle down and the Tavares take out.
VAR:
I think VAR should be used in the championship play off final for sure. So much at stake.
For the Semi’s ?
Possibly.
Last game of the season where relegation / promotion can rest on a bad decision?
Maybe that too.
The rest?
Not yet. A few years I think it’s inevitable.
I don't think you can start arbitrarily adding the technology in for odd games. It's either the whole competition or not at all. having VAR in cup games for PL teams at home and nowhere else is a farce, and most likely to benefit the PL team as they'll most likely be doing the most attacking.
So let's say a VAR decision goes against a team on the final day of the season that denies them promotion/gets them relegated. Yet in the 45 games beforehand they've had half a dozen that they'd have got with VAR and would like have made that final day decision redundant. Similarly with play-offs - during the season that team may have got enough VAR decisions to have not needed the play-offs in the first place, then fail to get promotion because it's used in a couple of games.