Has VAR Actually Improved Football or Just Made It More Annoying

[BigDog26]

The VAR mistaken identity check during the USA vs Paraguay match brought the conversation back. We have had technology-assisted refereeing for several years now and the debate has not settled. Fewer incorrect decisions versus the delays, the uncertainty, and the way it removes the instinctive joy of a goal before replays confirm it.

Has your view on VAR changed since it was introduced, and what would a better version of technology-assisted refereeing actually look like?

[StayReadyKev91]

The joy has genuinely gone out of scoring a goal at a football ground. The few seconds of uncertainty before the stadium allows itself to celebrate properly is a real loss that TV viewers do not fully appreciate

[AEWCallum93]

The millimetre offside calls are indefensible. Offside was designed to prevent goal-hanging, not to disallow goals where a player's armpit is two centimetres over an imaginary line

[RomanReigns26]

I would take VAR for clear and obvious errors only. Penalty decisions that are clearly wrong, red cards for the wrong player. That is the scope it should have

[VB]

The mistaken identity check in the USA game was exactly the right use of technology. That is precisely what VAR should be catching

[Andy81]

Semi-automated offside is an improvement on drawn lines but the precision still exceeds what the law intended. The fix is changing the offside law itself

[StringTheory51]

My view has changed. I was a VAR sceptic early on but the number of genuinely wrong decisions that have been corrected is significant. The implementation is flawed but the principle is right

[Wendy88]

Cricket's DRS system works because it is initiated by players, has limited reviews per innings, and applies to specific scenarios. Football VAR should look more like that

[KyleOReilly05]

I'd get rid of var in football.