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Howard Webb urges VAR officials to intervene more often on soft penalties, and reminded referees about the importance of giving a yellow card for dissent and waving an imaginary card (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

'Disagree with the referee over subjective decisions more often' is definitely the perfect mid-season advice for the already inconsistent and under-performing English referees on VAR duties. What could possibly go wrong by trying to define what exactly a 'soft penalty'? There's no way that could make the VAR decision making even more inconsistent!

Howard Webb is a fucking clown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We've literally had two soft penalties be absolutely ridiculed on here for not getting overturned, (the two against Wolves by Newcastle and Sheffield Utd) and now that Webb wants them to intervene to change those, you're still slating them.

Are you really saying "well the refs have been shit the last few weeks, but you can't tell them to be better otherwise that's not consistent throughout the season"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If they can’t overturn one’s as blatant as the Wolves one, then this isn’t going to make a difference. There wasn’t anything stopping them from overturning incredibly easy decisions beforehand, this is just to make it look like they are changing something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's exactly what I'm saying though, before this change, the VARs were under a directive that if the on-field referee had given a penalty, and if there was any slight contact from the defender, then they weren't allowed to overturn it. Dale Johnson talked a lot about this in the VAR review at the time. I think the only exception is when they believed the attacking player initiated the contact.

This change in theory, will help with that, and give the VAR more power to step in and prevent things like the Wolves incidents. Whether that's actually the case, we'll see.