New football season, same old VAR…
Contemptuous and disrespectful as ever!
On April 19 2021, before the start of the delayed Euro 2020 competition and the end of the 2020 premier league season, VAR’s second season as it was, the TRUTH posted this on Twitter:
Although the last point (in white) relates to the huge level of incompetence, lies and, moreover, disrespect shown to both players and clubs during the 2019 season and by both VAR and match referees, a large percentage of who were occasional VAR’s, Michael Oliver was the stand out example of the TRUTH being proven right as always.
Let’s face it, season 2020 started with a rule change on penalties. One that was quickly changed. No doubt to, yet again, accommodate VAR’s incompetence over good old law 12. A law that referee’s and VAR officials need to prove they have full knowledge of, and in the same way that a provisional car driver has to prove they have a degree of knowledge of driving and the ‘Highway code’.
Unfortunately for football and its ticket paying fans – good to see them back in the stadiums – just as the loyalty of commercial TV broadcasters’ is to their advertisers (see article: ’20 minutes of ad breaks’), likewise, the corrupt loyalty of the FA (Football Association) is, has and will always be to match referees and VAR, despite their ongoing incompetence and disrespect to the players and clubs.
Although the 2020 season saw a greater use of pitch-side VAR monitors, on the third match day of the 2021 season, the game between Newcastle and West Ham was blighted when, not only did the match referee fail to check his proven incorrect penalty award in favour of West Ham, despite appeals from the Newcastle players, including Callum Wilson, but VAR, contemptuous and incompetent as ever, failed to overturn the referee’s clear and obvious flawed penalty decision, despite having earlier overturned the assistant referee’s offside flag for West Ham’s first goal and for the very same reason and action.
One noticeable point. When the TRUTH tried to find out the names of the match officials for the game, something that was simple and straightforward for its lengthier VAR exposé, it would appear that the ‘Premier League’s’ site has dropped that particular page.
UPDATE!
Regarding the point just mentioned above, that of VAR’s failure to overturn a clear and obvious error by the match referee over a penalty, it somewhat confirms the answer to a contrasting question. Match week 7, and VAR failed to overturn what the MOTD (Match of the day) commentator, Gary Lineker and his two studio guests saw as a penalty. The question is this:
Would VAR have overturned the match referee’s decision if he had done the right thing, which was to award a penalty? The answer, ‘NO’, clearly demonstrates all that is wrong with some of the VAR officials and match referees. It also poses this question:
What is the point of VAR? Especially when they fail to overturn incorrect decisions by match referees.
During the first Match of the day broadcast, Gary Lineker discussed, commended the change to thicker lines for offside decisions with two of those, including himself, who were responsible for England’s failure to win the delayed Euro 2020 final, and in regular time (90 minutes).
As the TRUTH mentioned in a text tweet, the lines can be as thick as a house. It’s the proximity to it that determines trespass, for want of a better word.
With the noticeably reduced use of VAR, the commentator of the Newcastle V West Ham game made a point about VAR being used to overturn the referee’s error of awarding a goal kick instead of the clear and obvious corner and vice versa – the ball having gone dead.
Another alternative would be that of the use of a red flag, as in American football, to challenge on-field erroneous decisions.
Overall, and the TRUTH has mentioned it before, to assist in making decisions more accurate, especially if what’s occurring is blocked by one or more player’s bodies, those responsible, could utilise the tried and tested practice of having four assistant referee’s run the touch lines, from each corner flag to the centre line.
Of course, they would, while I very much doubt it, have to prove their knowledge of the rules, in particular, law 12, which relates to the award of direct free kicks and penalties.
The perfect way to do that is something akin to ‘what happened next’. That is when the footage on a video or film recording is suddenly stopped, in this case, a Law 12 incident. Having viewed the footage as many times as is necessary, the VAR/match referee has to write down his decision. At the end of the test, as it is, having viewed at least 12 such videos, the amount they got correct will determine their ability to do their job. That said, and as has been proven, match referees and, moreover, VAR officials continue to make mistakes while lying with it.
Just announced in the new, 2021 season, rule changes, chiefly to cover up VAR’s ongoing embarrassing incompetence over its failure to comprehend, stick to and up-hold law 12, more players are to be booked as a result thereof. So, in effect, players will, themselves, be made the scapegoats for VAR’s incompetence. That, you’ll agree, is possibly the ultimate act of disrespect there’s ever likely to be, and in defence of the continued, ongoing cheating by opposing players.
As to the reason for the rule change? Get this. Last season, a record 125 penalties were awarded – a 35% increase on the previous season. Of course, if VAR had done it’s job properly during the 2019 season, the increase would have been far less, something that the FA and the largely unaccountable ‘Professional Game Match Officials Ltd’ failed, miserably, to comprehend; that and the fact that, as just mentioned above, defenders took advantage by cheating (see previous VAR exposé).
To that end, if fellow tweeter, Gary Lineker thinks we’ve got our game back, then he needs to take note of the fact that ‘thinking is for day dreamers’. (That being what thoughts are.)
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