Video assistant referees ensure that the correct call is made the overwhelming majority of the time. Except, it seems, in England's Premier League.
For more than a century, the top division in English soccer — known for the last 30 some years as theVAR technology obviously wasn't available for most of that time. Countless outcome-changing calls were blown. Mistakes made because of human error were simply considered part of the game and widely accepted, eventually, no matter how unjust. Life went on.
Yet when FIFA and leagues around the world began adopting VAR around 2017, it was supposed to all but eliminate human error, especially on black-and-white decisions like offside.Mostly it has. Except in England. Why the country that invented the sport can't seem to figure out VAR is becoming one of the great mysteries of our time.It has quickly become ubiquitous since. There have now been four VAR World Cups, two men's and two women's.
"It is clear that the rules of the game were not applied correctly, which undermined sporting integrity," read the strongly worded statement released by Liverpool on Sunday. The club also called for"improvements to processes in order to ensure this kind of situation cannot occur again." Most scathingly, Liverpool pointed out that the introduction of VAR should've lessened the pressures on the on-field officials,"not exacerbated them.
"I've never really been a fan of [VAR]," Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou admitted Saturday, even after his side secured all three points in part because Diaz's first half strike was ruled out."It complicates areas of the game that I thought were pretty clear in the past.
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