VARmageddon: 'clear and obvious' issues?
Erik ten Hag was the latest manager to slam VAR, after Marcus Rashford saw red for Manchester United.
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00:00 Nobody expects 100% right decisions on field.
00:03 The game is never meant to be like this.
00:08 It's an absolute disgrace that this goal is allowed.
00:11 It's an absolute disgrace.
00:13 I think we all thought when Villar comes in,
00:17 it might make things easier.
00:19 I'm very disappointed about such decisions.
00:28 I think the game is never meant to be like this.
00:34 This has nothing to do with football.
00:37 And I accept that there are also wrong decisions made.
00:42 Three such tough decisions.
00:44 You control the game.
00:47 And I think the game is never meant to be for that.
00:50 I don't know about you, but I'm getting bored of all this running over to the TV.
00:53 Because we all know what's going to happen, don't we?
00:54 I don't know what the strike rate is,
00:56 but it's probably like 99% chance that the referee is going to give whatever he's been told in his ear.
01:00 I don't like it.
01:01 I don't like the standing around.
01:02 I don't like the whole sort of theatre around, you know, waiting for decisions.
01:08 I trust in the car, but you know, the driver, that is a problem.
01:14 I like it when it helps us out, and I don't like it when it doesn't help us out.
01:17 Is there any point in having VAR if the same decisions aren't given every week?
01:21 So I just don't know where we're going with it all. I really don't.
01:24 Not as the manager of Liverpool, so much more as a football person.
01:28 I think the only outcome should be a replay.
01:32 We would say, "Well, what about our game? That should be a replay."
01:36 I don't like it. I think we should just accept referees' decisions.
01:40 The wording is clear and obvious. It's not the right wording.
01:43 It's just diminishing the authority of the referee.
01:46 You can't tell me that referees are in control of the game. They're not.
01:50 These things should not happen. Other mistakes shouldn't happen.
01:53 But they happened, and that's how it is. That's fine.
01:55 Learn from it. Find a solution on how to deal with it.
01:58 It's too much a stake here. We put so much effort.
02:01 It's so difficult to compete at this level.
02:03 And it's an absolute disgrace.
02:06 The problems, I think, are obvious, and they are solvable.
02:11 Again, I feel embarrassed. I've been more than 20 years in this country,
02:15 and this is nowhere near the level to describe this as the best league in the world.
02:20 I am sorry.
02:21 Too many coaches wanted the BAR.
02:23 And then when they say, "Again, you,"
02:25 now we... "No, that is a disgrace."
02:30 You know, it's difficult. I'm not talking about Arteta.
02:34 He's an absolute disgrace.
02:36 I'm talking about speed in the game. I want to just get on with it.
02:38 In all the countries, not just here, in all the countries now,
02:41 the referees in BAR are the lead on roles.
02:44 And the Oscar goes to...
02:46 And they have to make a step back.
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