05-01-2019, 23:13
(05-01-2019, 23:02)0762 Wrote: A VAR official should have the power to intervene much like an observing AR or 4th official!!! VAR should be refined to suit the full requirements of ref officialdom in the 21st century. You've not watched the three incidents??? Listening to an ex English FA ref on BT Sport today, his view was that two of them could've merited two separate red cards!!! This ref somehow saw but missed everything and therefore his interpretation of the FIFA rules of the game are "open to question" and possibly the subject of a proper ref monitoring system that has the power to demote or suspend such a ref!! Lets not "beat the bush" re this ref performance covering these separate incidents - IT WAS HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS!!!
Going back to the World Cup when we first saw VAR being used in full, was it was the ref who decided when to use it? I don’t think the VAR official intervened unless asked to do so, or am I wrong with that? I agree, having the VAR official able to talk directly to the ref and point something out he missed might be a better way to do it. The ref didn’t “miss” anything, he might have made the wrong call, he might be crap or even biased, but the incidents were in his report and as a consequence the SFA will not over rule his on the field decision retrospectively, thats the same rule as in England.