“Video Assistant Referee” is used in Premier League football games, and is used to judge on decisions the pitch officials missed or are uncertain about.
VAR has been around for a number of years in different sports around the world, but has been gradually introduced to the English game over the last year or two, to the point where every Premier League game from this season onward has this technology.
Given that it has been around for almost a decade one would think the experts would have ironed out all the little niggles that makes a complete fucking sham of this “virtual assistant!”
But the fact that it can take 3 or 4 minutes for EACH referral while the pitch referee waits for the VAR operator to go over and over and over the questionable incident via the pitch-side TV cameras, means that a game that kicks off at 8pm on a wet & cold Tuesday evening, may not actually finish until way past 10pm. Which is of no great comfort to away fans who have travelled 300 miles by train only to find the last train back left 10 minutes ago!
VAR is also inconsistent, and is currently proving intensely irritating to players, managers and fans. The sports media is also questioning how absolutely shite VAR is proving to be – not through the technology itself but by the slap-dash interpretation by the numb-nuts making the final decision.
They say faults in new technology will improve over time; but quite frankly although VAR technology is sound in principle, it is the human element that is, and probably always will be the weakest fucking link.
I don’t want to see the 90 minute game turned into a 3 hours fuckfest like American Football and its constant interruptions, ad-breaks and time-outs. By all means keep things like goal-line technology, but VAR needs to fuck off, and just stick to the judgement of the pitch officials, whether they’re right or fucking wrong.
Nominated by Technocunt
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The human fuckwits like lee mason, martin atkinson, kevin friend, michael oliver, mike riley etc are ALL bad referees ANYWAY – so in what way are these dumbo’s supposed to be expert at VAR????? Give me strength – they are ruining the game so fuck off the lot of you – cunts!!!!!!
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It comes to something when the fans chant: “The VAR referee is a blind cunt!”
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I just don’t see the need for it.
Goal line technology perhaps, because that’s fucking easy to judge on. But from what I have seen with this VAR shit is that no one really knows what the fuck is going on.
The cunts at the top are slowly killing this game with all its financial corruption. and now this half-baked technology bollocks
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Knew a deaf n dumb football ref ,
Taught me how to finger sign.
What?
Its not a fuckin punchline! True!
Some evil minded fuckers on here!
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Billy is using as an early example of sign language Miserable.
Come to think I don’t know where in the film that image comes from. Which scene?
Maybe just a publicity shot.
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Evening Miles, yes think publicity shot,
Did you see the recent docümentary about Kes?
David Bradley (Billy Casper) walking around where it was filmed and always asked for 2finger ‘selfies’!
Barry Hines got disillusioned with middle class academics, and when older and ill moved back to where he grew up.
Billy is based on Barry Hines brother, and he had a pet kestrel.
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Yes I used to see him quite often Miserable. Told him how much I admired the film in the post office once. I lived near his sister’s corner shop. Out the same pod you could tell.
He actually cuts a lonely figure. Always on his own. He has a website and seems to be taken up with some esoteric Indian Guru.
As I say a lonely figure. The last time I saw him…walking away from me…still the same bowlegs.
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Good you told him you liked what he created!
He seemed a decent bloke on the interviews he did.
Not full of hisself like some get.
Barry Hines
RIP
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Barry Hines was the cunt that penned ‘Threads’. Gave me fucking nightmares, that did.
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Think it gave quite a few nightmares to be fair DCI.
Seemed a decent bloke.
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If I ever have bad dreams that don’t involve dead or mangled children, they’re about Threads!
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Mines Crocodiles.
No shit, dirty pond , moonlight on surface, big saltwater croc.
Same dream, had it a few times.
Watched a guy feeding alligators as a kid in 70s think it affected me.
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The mind’s a weird thing, that’s for sure.
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Well if they all played nicely together they wouldn’t need VAR … my nan would say.
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Yes took them four minutes to decide a Sheffield Utd players toe nail was offside against Spurs the other week.
Can VAR pick up that Raheem Sterling is an overated cunt that can’t strike a ball correctly for £300k per week.
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One of the things that makes me laugh about this fiasco is that the cunts watching the screens dress up in referees kit, shorts and everything. Who’s fucking idea was that?
Anybody who goes to football knows you occasionally run into certain cunts among the spectators who are known as “full kit wankers.” These are arses who , as the name suggests, don’t just wear the shirts but the shorts, socks……some of them even wear a captains armband! You usually find them surrounded by pisstakers taking photos of them on their phones.
How can you have any faith in VAR when it is operated by Full Kit Wankers?
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It’s a pity we can’t have a laser cannon attached to the VAR for when a cheating foreign cunt dives around after contact with an opponent that equates to the same amount of force as a wasp sneeze. A quick check and then the ref says sorry Mbwango the replay says your a deceitful bastard and alas you have been found guilty by the Visitor Annihilation Regulations
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sorry chum, your dive is a red-mist offence and Judge Dredd is manning the VAR today….Bbbzzzzzzza-kaPOW.
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I am the VAR !!!!!
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Dont mention the VAR!!
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I did once just before but I might have got away with it
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It will change because it has to change. Not knowing whether to cheer a goal strips the game of excitement. The constant breaks make it dull and laborious viewing like American Football or cricket. I’d say drop it altogether.
If it becomes any slower and mundane, with players standing around hands on hips like mouth-breathing fuckwits, neither knowing the rules nor what’s happening, it threatens to become as mundane as Rugby and nobody wants that.
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VAR does indeed need to fuck off. It works i n some sports, but the added problem is that the Premier League fuck everything up.
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I agree, it’s absolutely varcical… I’ll get me coat
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Having a video assistance referee, doesn’t that sort of disrespect the real referee on the pitch?
“Let’s see what the computer thinks instead”.
If I were the referee, I’d tell them to put the computer where the sun doesn’t shine.
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Football died a death in 1992, the Premier League killed it.
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I was hoping VAR would even up the referees bias for the big teams. Instead it seems to be used to ensure that the bin dippers get every decision go their way.
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They need to use it against the diving cunts.
The excuse is it’s part of game fuck right off, if you dive the player accused ought to be able to give a boot to head.
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