Quote from: tokeweed on July 17, 2018, 09:42:03 AM

Quote from: dado7 on July 16, 2018, 02:27:28 PM

Quote from: tokeweed on July 16, 2018, 02:14:05 PM

^ VAR sucks. It's not football anymore. I'd love for the game to be pure and still have that human element in there. It's not perfect, but that's part of what makes spectating it fun.

And it's funny how stupid that ref is if he really got the handball call wrong even with VAR.

No man, VAR is a positive thing. This was the best tournament regarding the refereeing so far. Just remember years 2000., 2002., Euro, World cup, League of champions - the refereeing was at its bottom if it was ever good...

However, Juventus and France examples showed us that VAR can be used in a negative, selective, way too.

Not to me. It's just another tool for corrupt refs to manipulate the out come of the matches. Think about it. Even with VAR, Perisic's 'hand ball' is still being argued if it was really a hand ball or not.

And it slows down the game too... And it made football corny.

I agree with you, but not hands down. With this tool, football is still corrupted but is much less corrupted. We are slowly getting there..... If you disregard Juventus case, there was almost not a single game within last 2 years where you could clearly say "they got robbed!!!!!!!!". There are only "small favors" done here and there and mistakes that can, in theory, be justified by words "he couldn't have possibly seen it", or "it's his call and depends on the referee and criteria".... like this final or Bayern - Real game.... And this tournament was the tournament with the smallest number of cardinal errors. I cannot count them on my two hands. In past tournament, they were in almost, literally, every game, I mean, the championships would had ended in a completely different way without them!!!!!