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Dived? I'm no City fan but come on, you can't seriously believe that? The Bournemouth defender stamped on his foot. Regardless of Silva's reaction, that's a pen every time.
Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [23rd - 25th August 2019]
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Dived? I'm no City fan but come on, you can't seriously believe that? The Bournemouth defender stamped on his foot. Regardless of Silva's reaction, that's a pen every time.
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Didnt look like much at all from the replay.
A little clip of Neil Swarbrick explaining how VAR will be used for subjective decisions:
To summarise, the on-field ref will give his reasoning as to why he's made a decision and providing that reasoning could possibly be justified, they stick with that decision even if they believe it to be the wrong decision. They'll only overturn a decision if the refs explanation was completely at odds with reality.
I can see this going the same way as cricket with DRS. When they first introduced that it was only used for clear and obvious errors and you were forever seeing LBW's that were smashing into leg stump not given because they were working with massive margin of errors. They've gradually reduced those margins now and I can see that happening with VAR as time goes on because nobody is going to put up with long delays that result in the wrong decisions still being made.
To summarise, the on-field ref will give his reasoning as to why he's made a decision and providing that reasoning could possibly be justified, they stick with that decision even if they believe it to be the wrong decision. They'll only overturn a decision if the refs explanation was completely at odds with reality.
I can see this going the same way as cricket with DRS. When they first introduced that it was only used for clear and obvious errors and you were forever seeing LBW's that were smashing into leg stump not given because they were working with massive margin of errors. They've gradually reduced those margins now and I can see that happening with VAR as time goes on because nobody is going to put up with long delays that result in the wrong decisions still being made.
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Haha! Dean Saunders picked himself up a nice little 10 week stretch. Saves us all from a few weeks of his inane ramblings about Liverpool needing Wayne Rooney 
I think that's the key thing. You either have the risk of incorrect decisions and accept the ref has a difficult job to see everything, or you have VAR where things are right and you accept that (or at least close enough, there will always be some subjectivity).
The problem is at the moment we have a mid point and it makes people even more annoyed when VAR doesn't correct a decision that should've been corrected.
Haha! Dean Saunders picked himself up a nice little 10 week stretch. Saves us all from a few weeks of his inane ramblings about Liverpool needing Wayne Rooney
I remember the moron berating Bielsa for spygate. Good riddance
