Is football rewriting the rules for VAR?

[tomytony]

We were told it was for clear and obvious mistakes. We had the Lundtram's toes incident v Spurs, 2nd phase and all that was not applied. Before the home game v Newcastle in the 1st PL season we were told the linesman would NOT flag if there was any doubt about an offside.He flagged, we stopped and VAR overturned it.
There's been so many tweaks from the 'natural', known by all offside ruling that we now have a rule about 'physical interference' culminating in the daftest, most perverse offside decision I have ever seen yesterday from OT.
How can a defender defend when a player clearly stood offside is allowed to run alongside the ball thus affecting the mindset and natural instincts of the other players until another player runs from a non offside position and kicks the ball into the net?

VAR - righting the clear and obvious wrongs?
No it's rewriting the rule book to help officials by adding ludicrous tweaks to the rules to try to make it work.
FFS go back to 2 between the player and the goal being onside and , if not. flag.If the lino gets that wrong then use VAR but don't change the whole game because the ruling bodies have f***ed up.
As Shankly said " if he's not interfering with play why's he on the pitch?"

 

[FatherKnowsBest]

I would do without offside altogether. It is the most contested, least understood and badly applied law in the game. Bin it.

 

[Grayblade]

I agree about yesterday’s it was totally baffling. Rashford ushered the ball all the way to the edge of the box and had to be marked. The fact that he didn’t touch it when he was running is irrelevant. His first touch could have been a shot at goal. He could have scored himself. The madness isn’t that some goon hiding away in a box thinks he wasn’t interfering with play, he may have had a brain fart. No the real madness is that the match day Ref took a good look and agreed with him. If we’d seen that in South America of Eastern Europe we’d swear the bastards were bent!

 

[tomytony]

I agree about yesterday’s it was totally baffling. Rashford ushered the ball all the way to the edge of the box and had to be marked. The fact that he didn’t touch it when he was running is irrelevant. His first touch could have been a shot at goal. He could have scored himself. The madness isn’t that some goon hiding away in a box thinks he wasn’t interfering with play, he may have had a brain fart. No the real madness is that the match day Ref took a good look and agreed with him. If we’d seen that in South America of Eastern Europe we’d swear the bastards were bent!

Peter Walton in today's S Times' justifying' it -i.e talking bollocks to defend the ref.
-He says "offside is in two parts - the lino was right to flag and then the ref has to consider 4 things then
has the player played the ball?
has he attempted to play the ball?
has he interfered with an opponent?
has he attempted to interfere with an opponent?.
He says the ref and the lino would have discussed these 4 points and decided, rightly, that Rashford did none of those" !!
FFS that's just a blatant lie.

 

[Charliejoejohn2]

Just seen another poor decision by var at Newcastle.

 

[Charliejoejohn2]

Just seen another poor decision by var at Newcastle.

Justice was done

 

[tomytony]

They'll soon be reviewing the whole game on a Monday and announcing the results by Thursday.
That wasn't even for the original penalty claim that caused them to get involved.

 

[Charliejoejohn2]

Him who got the pen committed the foul on Trippier then did a 2point tariff dive

 

[OurGert]

£££££££££££££££££££££££££££££
Corruption

 

[seanbeanstattoo]

£££££££££££££££££££££££££££££
Corruption

Simple answer.
What happened in the Manchester derby made the rules of football irelevant.
I crave us back in the top flight but hate and despise it and absolutely everything it represents at the same time.
Rather support non league.

 

[Mahatmafoot]

There are VAR rules for Man U and Liverpool and different rules for the rest.

 

[Bulmer1889]

They really need to get a grip of this its embarrassing the rashford offside brentford and Fulham's penalties all wrong decisions after var has been checked it's about time refs and var officials were quizzed properly on these decisions instead being allowed to sit in their ivory towers untouchable they might make the effort to get them right if they were put under pressure to explain how they could get decisions so wrong

 

[seanbeanstattoo]

They really need to get a grip of this its embarrassing the rashford offside brentford and Fulham's penalties all wrong decisions after var has been checked it's about time refs and var officials were quizzed properly on these decisions instead being allowed to sit in their ivory towers untouchable they might make the effort to get them right if they were put under pressure to explain how they could get decisions so wrong

Seems to work fine in La Liga so it's the morons not the machinery.

 

[Bulmer1889]

Seems to work fine in La Liga so it's the morons not the machinery.

100% m8 it’s so obvious but f all is bein done about it