Football is being overshadowed by VAR controversies day in and day out. While footballers and managers claim it is killing the game they love, fans are left frustrated by inconsistencies, and referees are bearing the brunt of the anger. We ask football fans across the UAE what they think of the controversial technology.
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00:00VAR is not real like I
00:03Know we're gonna have different opinions and that's okay
00:06I guess there's something weird about like fans holding off to celebrate a goal and
00:13It's not a goal and at the same time I get it. What if it's not an actual goal?
00:18Just try not to be too philosophical. Okay, I think this is part of the game
00:23Like that's part of the whole football game the excitement the intensity of the passion
00:28You know everything that goes on with the game of football
00:31I'm not really a big fan of that, but I could understand why it's happening
00:35But yeah, I wish we don't have VAR as a football fan myself. I have always been a little skeptical when it comes to
00:43introducing certain types of technology onto the world's greatest game that dates back to
00:492013 when goal line technology was introduced and
00:53Obviously the next couple of years with the announcement of VAR as countries slowly began
01:00Implementing and introducing VAR onto their leagues
01:03It has only proved time and time and again that this is a system a type of technology
01:09That does not work in favor of the game. And if anything it causes
01:14Controversy it sparks debate. There is a lack of stability lack of proper monitoring which does not do the game any favors and
01:23I personally feel that there are other sports such as cricket
01:28Tennis or even American football that had certain reliance on the video like technology which worked in
01:36their favor
01:37but when it comes to football
01:39I would rather live with the human error of the referee as opposed to the VAR system. What a joke, honestly
01:48speaking from the Arsenal perspective
01:50You know this just two games ago
01:53David Lewis got sent off the pitch for
01:56Minimal contact on on the attacker and the exact same thing happens to us this week. And you know what? It's not a penalty
02:03What's the point of having VAR? Honestly, it's just that for VAR
02:08The whole system is just it's all about humans, right?
02:11The whole point of VAR the concept phase is that hey, we have a machine in you we can review the video
02:18We can see what's actually a foul what's actually not a foul and that will reduce errors make the game more fair
02:23But that's not actually happening. In fact, the VAR becomes a star every other week
02:27I think there needs to be a way to figure out how to take the human side of it out of VAR
02:31so VAR was introduced to sort of
02:35take care of clear-cut mistakes, right and sort of get rid of those anomalies or
02:42Mistakes that obviously human referees could end up making but I don't know the introduction of VAR
02:48hasn't really fixed that problem and it's only created more issues and
02:52Given a choice. I'd prefer human inconsistencies or
02:57technology
02:58Making the same mistakes, right? It's it doesn't make any sense. Plus we are
03:05definitely has
03:07sort of
03:08Sucked out all the joy from football. I mean now even when your team scores a goal
03:14you hesitate from
03:17Celebrating because you have one eye on the referee or on the screen because you want to see if that goal is going to be
03:23Repealed and that's not fun. Right as a big fan of technology and
03:27means of ensuring fairness in games
03:29I welcomed VAR into football
03:32My initial gut feeling is that it would be good for the game and I still continue to believe so
03:38But taking a quick look at the audience polls and a sly glance at Twitter
03:44It's clear to see that it's not a crowd favorite as
03:48A viewer it doesn't bother me that it takes away
03:52minutes from the game or
03:54It ruins the experience as some football purists might say
03:59pundits and players have had their opinion about VAR
04:03but at the end of the day, it is a tool for the referees and
04:07They must decide how best to use it just like any other tool. It can be misused
04:14But overall I feel it's the situations in football that cause controversies and not VAR
04:20VAR just happens to be the tool used in these controversial situations