Let me guess ex manure players

The national ice hockey league in North America (NHL) has been doing this for years. Former players are in the VAR studio assisting the referees in reviewing video.

In an interview, they said that former players are better at spotting cheating, such as dives or fouls with intent to injure.

Oh great, I’m sure it’ll be much better when they have Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher refereeing.

Good idea, but as long as they’re able to take side jobs working abroad I won’t trust them.

Scousers did not stop whinging for the weeks prior to the game at City because the ref was born in Manchester.

Nobody could handle the levels of salt that would overflow Liverpool and flood the whole of the UK if it was an ex player.

Sounds like placating pundits who keep asking for it. It would be years until someone gets to the premier league level and if they did anyone would claim bias

r/whatcouldgowrong

Only because he’s been pressured to

Ridiculous. Obviously ex-players are always lobbying for this but they surely they need specialists whether ex-players or not.

High performing clubs hire analysts with PhDs or similar to perform highly specialised roles. Why have a different standard for video refereeing? Get a nerd who can master and improve the tech’s capabilities, knows the laws of the game inside out and can proactively be good at the job as their chosen profession. Rather than relying on people who rose through the refereeing ranks or playing ranks.

How do they find it so difficult is my honest question.

Watching it at home with the same access to footage as VAR has the decision is 95% of the time generally a consensus with viewers and pundits but yet VAR manages to just be totally out of touch with the popular opinion and is even internally inconsistent.

Rugby Union absolutely nailed video refereeing, and despite Webb not agreeing, football has to learn whatever lessons it can from rugby. Clear, understandable, quick decisions, very high success rate, and actually benefits the drama when done right.

I think dion Dublin would be perfect.

He has played as both a defender and forward

I would like to see roy keane in the VAR room

Can just imagine Jack Grealish or Kevin De Bruyne retiring after earning £400k a week for over a decade to become a ref for 1% of that for the love of the game.

Great idea Howard 👍🏻

(I’m well aware that lower tier players are also going to be targeted for the role as well)

Ahh nothing smells like bias more then ex players in the VAR room

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