VAR

I hated it the first time I experienced it.
I hated it when it contributed to us exiting the champs league.
I hated it (not quite as much) when a decision went for us.
I hated it today.

It's not the fact that decisions go against us, as it seems that the decisions are the correct ones.

It's not the fact that it breeds uncertainty as the same uncertainty is present with referees.

It's not the fact that it is used at all, as I feel it has a place in football.

The issue I have with it as a match going supporter is the negative effect it has on the match day experience and the enjoyment of the game.

This is an inter-club issue not a City one, I hear the same from supporters from other clubs.

I much prefer the uncertainty of a referees's decisions and mistakes. Today's result was nobody's fault apart from City's, they should have taken their chances and scored more goals, simple as that but had we drawn without this VAR farce, I would have taken it on the chin and accepted that we weren't good enough to score and put the game to bed.

The problem I have is not with VAR per se, but with the way it is implemented. My view is that it should be used to assist the referee if he/she feels that there was an incident/infringement, NOT to replace the referee and make him/her irrelevant by checking every goal to see how they can come up with a reason to reject it (irrespective of the validation of the goal) in order to justify their existence.

Spontaneity has always been part of football and the highs and lows, whether right or wrong are part of that. It is very much at risk.

Sorry for the rant but I feel VAR is doing more harm than good.

The issue I have with it as a match going supporter is the negative effect it has on the match day experience and the enjoyment of the game.

And there lies the rub, VAR is all about the television watcher, not the attendee.
No one at the game today including the ref has seen that.
In the case of this rule, he who pays the piper calls the tune!

Couldn't agree more Chatty.

Hopefully the T.V. companies won't kill the goose/golden egg etc .

After sleeping on it (and sobering up) i've decided it was Karma for only getting a poxy fine and no points deduction last week after being nicked for cheating again












Only kidding...(I think)

It couldn't have been Kamara.

He never played for City.

Blue Moon You started singing too soon

On a serious note can anyone tell me when Neves hit the ball last night why wasn't the two players stood in front of de Gea not deemed offside?
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First thing i looked at in the replays chatty.
One player was directly in front of d g which surely must have affected his vision of the ball .
Having said that it was a well worked move .
Dont know what you and others opine but Utd need to stop the sloppy passing and giving the ball away in their third of the field .Pogba take note AND young mac .

When they went to VAR that's what I thought they was looking at,
but instead they spend two minutes deciding the player who had the ball knocked back to him so he could pick out Neves didn't have his big toe offside yet then completly ignore the player stood in front of the keeper five yards beyond anyone else?

Playing out from the back is a risky business and is always going to result in mistakes at some point.
But the urgency to win the ball back quicker higher up the field is refreshing, totally different from the last few seasons were they would just get in front of a player and backtrack without engaging him until
he reached the edge of our box.

thank you VAR excellent today..