Referees don't have that power.
He’s no longer speaking out about VAR because he knows it won’t change anything
So what did Webb say to him?
Not to keep criticising VAR and refs openly as it won’t do us any favours. Is what I heard off a reliable source. Which backs up why he is no longer commenting on things. Look at what he said after the game last night he didn’t. Everyone wants the standards to improve.
Howard Webb isn't "the powers that be".
How de we know he hasnt?
No club has voted against VAR, that's the reality.
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How do we know that? I havent seen anything official unless ive missed it
The amount of stuff you 'hear' is astounding.
I only pass on what’s been said. And ask yourself why has Gary changed his tune. No smoke without fire ay it
As the PL now has a procedure to change the result of any game to a result that it desires why on earth would it go back to the old system ? VAR is a tool that is an absolute Godsend to the PL it is only going to get worse not better from our point of view. Ex ref Keith Hackett said on tv last week that when he was invited to the VAR bunker the VAR lot admitted that it was a flawed system and prone to mistakes and also open to interpretation depending on who was running it on the day.
To be fair whatever's been said, and however mad I was about another mysterious infringement disallowing our 'goal', he would have still looked like a fool moaning about it after our inept performance. What I would say is that the PGMOL, maybe through the PL, have leant on Sky to ease off the refs. Probably likewise they've persuaded the BBC that a weekly disaster show of how refereeing is ruining the game isn't in the best interests of football.
Surely if the PL was creating the results it desired you would have the two biggest clubs Liverpool and Utd winning the league every year and the likes of Bournemouth immediately relegated ahead of a club like Leeds.
Would've been reported by journos, who regularly report news on what has been agreed or not agreed at PL shareholder meetings and the AGM.
While i agree that the system is flawed and open to interpretation and wont be scrapped,i dont agree the PL are using it to alter results
Exactly and ive seen nothing about it
Do you really think any referee that want's to stay in such a lucrative job will stand up to Stockley Park ?
Thing for me is you can decide Cunha swung his arm back a bit dangerously, so maybe at a stretch it's a foul, but my initial reaction was that Kluivert was just charging round fouling, he'd definitely fouled Cunha first, shoving him in the back. In the crazy world they've created though England can tell Atwell that Kluivert fouls Cunha, Cunha reacts, none of it affects the game, but he should disallow the goal, book Cunha (even though they can't get involved in yellows) and give Bournemouth a free kick. Bonkers.
VAR is detested up here as well, with so many mistakes, hold ups in play etc completely destroying the game for fans.
You don’t have a reliable source.
This is my take as well about PGMOL leaning on Sky. I had the misfortune of listening to Jacqui Oatley and Dave Edwards commentating last night on what is guess is the official premier league feed. Total VAR propaganda from them to the point of nausea. Felt like something you'd get in North Korea. So obviously circling the wagons on this. PGMOL should be done for bringing the game into disrepute.
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