[BaggieSteve]

I just find VAR dispiriting. Was the game so unsatisfactory and refereeing decisions so poor & contentious prior to the introduction of VAR that we were just waiting for this technology to save the game? Not for me, the arguments and debate were part of its fabric. Sure, there were some glaring errors but they evened out; to go from those to calling an offside because a player has an elbow or a nose in advance of the defender seems ludicrous to me. I can’t help thinking that VAR is a technology looking for a problem to solve when we should have been coming at it from the other direction, namely asking what was wrong with the game and how do we best redress this. I’m fine with using it for line calls but that’s it - and by “line calls”, I mean was the ball over the line, not was the player offside. I’d rather the latter was left to the officials who, for the most part, were doing an excellent job prior to VAR. Anything beyond that strikes me as self defeating and comes into the realm of “why are you measuring that?”......”because I can, not because I need to”