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Arsenal have created a fuss to mask the fact that they were really poor on Saturday in Newcastle. We have mails on them and many on VAR.Still not watching much football , but amused by Arsenal having a ‘Set-Piece Coach’, who apparently got on Gary Neville’s nerves by shouting at Trossard for taking a series of bad, erm, set pieces.
Since its introduction, referee standards have fallen even further, in fact they’ve gone off a cliff because they know that VAR will intervene anyway. Has VAR made anything better for anyone? This weekend, Newcastle will say Yes but next weekend they could easily be complaining. The ball might just have been in, but regardless, that is a foul all day long that the ref would normally have given. But the ref didn’t give a foul as he probably expected VAR to give it on its review.
Man Utd might get a VAR decision go their way next week, but that isn’t cancelling anything out as it will be against Luton and not say against Arsenal. First game of the season, Wolves should have had a penalty in the last minute against us, is that cancelled out because Wolves might get dodgy Pen when they play Sheff Utd? Of course it isn’t.
The awarding of penalties, is the arm in a natural position? Well what’s natural? Standing still is different to walking, which is different to running, which is different to jumping and as everyone stands differently, walks, runs and jumps differently, what the hell is natural? I had a mate at school who ran like a spaghetti monster, it was hilarious, but that was him, naturally running.
Often the fault found is subjective and under scrutiny could have gone either way so where is the improvement in the watching experience here? It’s a waste of time and a game killer which leads to mangers players supporters pulling their hair out. The utter inconsistency of this is shown by that after the Jones sending-off in the Spurs Liverpool game a lot of people were saying that VAR cannot re-referee a decision and were demanding that the on-field decision be upheld. And yet now we have Arteta wanting the Newcastle goal to be re-re-refereed because his players believe the ball has gone out of play.
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