Agreed, but as we all know equality should be spread equally not be selective. Clubs shouldn't benefit from this technology just because of who they are.
Admittedly, whilst United lost a lot of goals last season to VAR, United did occasionally benefit from it, ie. Basham red card at Norwich, and West Ham's late goal at the Lane. I think every team last season were the victim of poor VAR decisions and along the way, this season will be the same.
Question is, what can we do about it?
Not sure what WE can do about it but the authorities could-
Make it mandatory for all decisions to be explained LIVE after the match.( authority is commensurate with responsibility so explain yourselves)
Only use it for line decisions until they have a) sacked Riley
b)made it mandatory for the ref to view the pitch monitor for all subjective i.e open to interpretation decsions.
Allow the manager an appeal in each half of the game-within 15 seconds of any incident occurring (similar to cricket) If the appeal is valid then re-instate the appeal.
Introduce retrospective punishments for offences REGARDLESS of whether it has been 'seen' (or ignored) by he ref at the time.( 2 wrongs don't make a right).
Amend the arcane rules that don't allow one set of officials ,VAR, to intrude in the other, the on field officials' decisions, to prevent absolute farcical decisions by hiding behind the (existing)'rules that don't allow them to look at that' eg ghost goal v Villa
Review ref and VAR ref performance twice a year and take sanctions when the official has made more than ,say, 3 mistakes, regardless of whether they were spotted during the game or after the review of the game- which will be needed for retrospective punishments.
The game will take longer but, as it already does, and , as the aim of VAR is to get it right, then taking longer is not a valid reason for not getting to the correct decision. If perfection is the aim then go for it. It's either 100% workable or a failure , there's no halfway house so live with the consequences of that aim.If it destroys the appetite for football watching then the authorities need to look in the mirror and decide what they want or, rather, what will keep the gravy train on track.
I agree it's not football as we know it but it hasn't been for ages so go the whole hog if the aim is to get everything absolutely spot on or scrap it and live with the injustices.