PL set for VAR from 2019/20

BaZ87 · 17 Nov 2018 at 12:27

In the recent PL meeting the clubs reached an agreement in principle to start using VAR from next season:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46224473

I'm not the biggest VAR fan but it was only a matter of time before it was used in the PL. Hopefully by next season officials have learnt how to use it.

McBain · 17 Nov 2018 at 18:42

Inevitable really, may as well bring it in sooner rather than later.

robfosters · 17 Nov 2018 at 23:24

Right decision imo. If our referees were good enough, I might think differently, but they’re not, and too many mistakes are made.

As an Arsenal fan, we would have suffered from it recently, like with Mane’s goal, but I still think it’s the right thing to do.

omnomnom · 18 Nov 2018 at 06:27

Looks like next year might be our year!

It's the right call even if I don't like it. It's had ebouen trialing now.

fez · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:26

The level of refereeing seems to be getting worse in the PL (maybe I'm imagining that) so its probably a good thing. I just hope that VAR doesn't drop the actual quality of the top refs because they know they can review things. Rugby pretty much always looks at VAR after a try incase something happened that should cause it to be cancelled out.

mp260767 · 22 Nov 2018 at 09:43

fez said:
I just hope that VAR doesn't drop the actual quality of the top refs because they know they can review things.

i don't think it will affect the top refs, but i think refs with any sense will use it for anything and everything they can otherwise they'll get battered for not using it as its available.

big one for me is whether they bother doing anything about all the hugging in the penalty area at free kicks and corners.

HangTime · 22 Nov 2018 at 22:59

Finally. Should have come in years ago.

The only concern I have is around time added on for stoppages, it is bad enough at the moment with far too little time added on, the refs will really need to be on top of this.

Skorpion · 24 Nov 2018 at 09:09

So much money involved nowadays in football that this has to happen. A team being relegated from the premier league by "the goal that never was" would lose millions from tv rights, prize money etc.

omnomnom · 24 Nov 2018 at 11:03

HangTime said:
Finally. Should have come in years ago.

The only concern I have is around time added on for stoppages, it is bad enough at the moment with far too little time added on, the refs will really need to be on top of this.

Have to draw a line somewhere though. If you want by a stopclock for eg youd have 15 minutes on each half.

HangTime · 24 Nov 2018 at 21:50

I've long advocated two 30min halves with stopclock but in terms of "drawing the line" to me it is ludicrous when you have in some cases less time added on for the entire half than was caused by a single injury. Welbeck injury the other day, was over 5mins injury (I looked at the clock) and yet only 5mins time added on in first half.
Realistically with VAR I could definitely see some games lasting 2hrs.