It VARies Dr Michael Benjamin, Community Psychiatrist.
SKYPE: BEDENOGA PHONE: +972-505-317772 BLOG: Times Of Israel ||Quora ||Jerusalem Post AMAZON AUTHORS PAGE; myRay: Online CBT |-----Original Message----- |From: Leedslist <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tim Leslie |Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:48 PM |To: [email protected] |Subject: [LU] Tum Ti Tum | |Seeing as we're all bored, just a quick moan about VAR if that's OK??? | |I've argued for years that Referees need a professional backup to do their job, in |the 21st Century. Goal line technology is fantastic and the concept of video |technology I fully support, TYPICALLY, for Footballing authorities, it is being |appallingly implemented and I think, in ONE fundamental area, they've got it |ALL. TOTALLY. WRONG. | |Italy's penalty last night was, in my humble opinion, never a penalty. |If we're going to give them out when someone accidently steps on someone's |foot (Who has lost control of the ball anyway), we might as well all pack up and |go home. Stupid. Anyway, the referee gave a corner, the Italians ALL insisted it |was a corner. That HAS to be the end of it. |It simply HAS to be down to the referee, not some faceless individual hidden |away who then confuses everyone and holds up play to make a decision such as |that. That wasn't, as is written in the VAR guidelines, a "clearly wrong decision ... |made in conjunction with the award or non-award of a penalty kick" - debate |reigns today across the football world as to whether or not it was penalty ... |hardly clearly wrong if you ask me!. | |Conspiracy theorists of the World can unite IF that sort of decision is made by a |German, against England, in a World Cup Final (Fat chance I know, but you get |the gist!) OR a Brazilian against Argentina etc. etc. | |My biggest and, really only, argument against it is that it HAS to be used ONLY |by the referee, when he (or she) is not certain about such a decision. Last nights |example; Corner. That is what the referee, confidently, gave at the time. So all |those 'traditionalists' who moan "Oh you can't have that, it will take all the |debate out of the pub and spoil the fun" ... clearly it won't, people would still |argue it was a penalty today. If the referee, a 40 something year old man, |struggling to keep up with a bunch of millionaire athletes who ping a ball around |WAY faster than any human can move and are TAUGHT and train at how to |cheat!, see's someone go down in the penalty area and they are CONVINCED it |was a foul. Penalty, there and then. Done. IF, and only if, he may be unsure (HE, |no-one else) then he should be able to call in VAR to help HIM make the |decision. I suspect if this was the case, many many more Yellows would be |shown at the time, thereby punishing the cheats, rather than in retrospect, when |the points have been won or lost. | |That's all [The prevoius correspondence:] BI | |StigOfTheVARDump |_______________________________________________ |Leedslist mailing list |Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist |To unsubscribe, email [email protected] | |Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ | |RIP Jimmy WAC-COE _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ RIP Jimmy WAC-COE
