Wolves LOSE vote to scrap VAR in Premier League 😳 'It's ALL cosmetic!' - Gab Marcotti | ESPN FC 

Problem with Var is not the system… it’s that Uk pgmol has the most incompetent refs in the world and they are paid by UAE….

VAR tech should nowhere be scrapped out.. That'd be absurd They just need to recruit competent VARs and make rules for accountability of any decision they make

If PL can't find enough english refs that have ave IQ, they should import them like they import doctors and other skilled workers.

I think the problem last season was the refs. Some ignoring VAR, others not consulting it at all. Speed will eventually come if the system is properly used.

We want CONSISTENCY. Is that too much to ask for?

What? They lost the vote? How unexpected.

I don’t want to hear any other team or manager moaning about VAR next season.

How Seb says premier erks me

Another two to three years from now Wolves will be hailed as heroes who possessed a prophetic eye on VAR..... Betting has spoiled the game to the extent that each decision has to be perfect for fear of big financial losses. VAR has sucked the life out of football..

Luis Diaz incident just sums up VAR. I think I'm somewhat of a Wolves fan now. Hopefully semi-automated offsides will help these clowns.

Nearly the entire rest of the world seems to be using this technology without major problems. Maybe it’s a you thing, England

With VAR referring have been more consistent. Consider all the decisions that VAR over turned that was over looked or missed by the referees. Getting rid of VAR is akin to getting rid of system that gets 1 out of 10 close decisions wrong to go back to where many 50/50 incidents wrong 50% of time or missed altogether

Just learn from the NFL on how they handle VAR

It shows how dim these people are when they say “Michael Oliver is one of the best referees”…he’s literally the worst referee in the premier league who constantly makes terrible decisions every game I’ve seen him referee…terrible referee

Keep hearing that VAR isn't the problem but it's the fault of the operators, That's completely wrong! The second that VAR is interrupting the game then it slows it down and becomes boring, speaking as a STH in the Premier league I see it game after game to the point I'm considering not renewing, we need to get rid and go back to allowing referees to referee, yes there will be mistakes but the game will be so much more enjoyable as it is in the lower leagues

The referee on the field should always go to the monitor and be the final arbiter of the decision on the field. VAR is a assistant to the ref not to tell the ref of the decision.

United and many other clubs wanted VAR and the PGMOL were behind all of it, "Only thieves don't like security cameras" - Mourinho

I wonder if they will look at the new MLS rule about injury time wasting

Just by looking at the video replay, the referee can still make mistakes, even more so if he just looks with his eyes.

6:05 That is an absolutely idiotic statement, VAR is not there to serve any of that, but to make fair decisions. **when used by competent people

Scrap out VAR?? What would my club Madrid do then? 😢 Don't worry we'll just go old school, reset the old network and wire millions to the linesmen 😎💪

Football as a Game anything can happen as long as VAR flows with the Football Match that's all that matters

Craig or Steve make the show more entertaining to watch

The vote was a joke, the PGMOL response is pathetic, and the clubs will suffer for not outing this garbage as the fans get more and more dissatisfied with the 'product' they're serving up on a weekly basis. If it's not fixed, football will keep on dropping. The great thing about VAR isn't what people keep lauding, that "it gets more decisions correct". The great thing VAR could do, is get the *really obviously wrong* decisions right. The marginal stuff? Forget that. The rocking a blurry image back and forth twenty times to determine if Jack Grealish's toe was clipped by a defender with the slightest touch? That takes too long, and does *nothing* to progress the game. Bin that nonsense. Until it really shows that it's willing to back off the 'perfect technology' excuse, it's going to continue to be flawed and interfere with our game.

As a fan of both footballs, the var reviews are annoying, but the reviews and commercial breaks in cfb are absurd...

Imagine Olympics 100 metres final stop we don't know who won 🤯🤯 not as bad but the madness is real

19 to 1 wow 😂 Wolves didn't even have anyone to support to them

LiVARpool must have been the first to vote to keep VAR...

Oliver made so many crutial mistakes this season. He didn't give the handball against Grealish, because he gets paid by the UAE

Teams should have 3 challenges per game.

ESPN panel and carragher is enough reason ex players in the boot won’t work. For one Man utd would get relegated

Biggest story currently ongoing in English football with 115 FC taking the league to court, and all ESPN FC can talk about is their meaningless top 100 rankings, a tournament no one understands, Mbappe and Zidane looking for a new job. If this was any other club, 30min would have been spent with dire analysis on why they are pathetic for taking the league to court. Come on guys, journalism can't be this diluted.

When a team is relegated, everything decreases: revenue, popularity, and value. (To be honest, it's an expulsion from the league.) Of course, players are leaving too. Which player would you like to play in the second division? If a weak team is relegated, the team becomes even more broken. Also, because of the risk of relegation, owners do not invest in their teams. You say you're reluctant to spend money. If you spend a lot of money and get demoted, will you take responsibility? Because the relegation system is also unfavorable to the club's value, Saudi Arabia purchased Newcastle in 2021 for 300 million pounds (about 400 million dollars at the exchange rate at the time). In 2022, Bournemouth was acquired by the American for 100 million pounds ($130 million). Honestly, if there had been no demotion, it would have been sold for around $1.5 billion. Currently, American sports such as nfl and mlb and nba have no relegation system and are generating huge revenue. Washington Commanders sold for $6 billion. Because there is no demotion and revenue is guaranteed. And most pl owners are foreigners. If it were you, would you spend a lot of money on a league with a relegation system?And the winning team is almost always the same. So do you think the weak team will win the Champions League? And if a popular team is relegated, it will be a huge blow to the league. Most overseas fans or people who don't watch much sports watch the games of super clubs such as PSG, Barça, Munich, and Real Madrid, and do not watch lower-ranked teams.Seriously, what are the benefits? (By the way, I am not American.) Honestly, if you ask whether the relegation system helps revenue and popularity, 99% of people will answer 'noRather, the owner does not invest more in the team for fear of being relegated. There is a risk. And relegation is unfavorable as it hurts the club's value and popularity. Also, the teams that are going to be relegated anyway have no motivation and nointention of winning. Defeat on purpose (e.g. Sheffield , Almeria, Salernitana) They gave up on the season and are being relegated.

I despise VAR but if we must have it, how about those muppets at Stockley Park quit micromanaging games and searching forensically for reasons to chalk off goals. In other words, let referees referee the game.

AI will eventually run the VAR. And can't wait for super robots playing the game. The future is coming.

Football fans and pundits commenting on VAR and refereeing is a case Dunning-Kruger in the extreme. Very few seem to have any idea or appreciation of officiating a sport at any significant level.

The EPL is widely considered the very best league in the world. However, only 30% of the players are English at this point. And that number is only as high as it is because of homegrown quota rules that require each club to have a minimum number of English players. The league is the very best in the world because the players come from all over the world and form the best pool of talent in one league. The reality is the English referee talent does not match the talent of the best players from all over the world in the league. The issue with VAR is not the technology. The issue is with the English human referees that simultaneously do not officiate matches at the level required often enough and aren’t using the technology they are entrusted with at a high enough level. That’s the real problem.

How VAR uses a challenge system? Like a team gets to challenge ONE decison per half. Eg, if you used your challenge to overturn a penalty against you, you cannot challenge your disallowed goal. not perfect but at least it speeds up the game.

Best feeling in football is beating your rivals with an offside goal. That’s gone now

do like the greece league, take in referees from abroad

Why call it the "Premier League". Isn't it the English Premier League. I don jot understand. English Premier League clubs cannot scout properly and are just getting any players they can and overpaying them. Meanwhile, they can't even get a team in any European Final, and only one in a Semi-final, while a Greek Team from the GREEK Super League was able to win a European Trophy. What is so Premier about the English Premier League that it must just be called the Premier League. Lions are not even from England. Where does that come from. They should have a Fox as the emblem. Isn't the Scottish Premier League also Premier. and would the Greek league be better because it is called the Super League. If the English insist on calling it the PL instead of EPL, then all clubs around the world should have an opportunity to join the Premier League, including Saudi, Other European clubs, North and South American clubs and Asian clubs. Then it can be called the Premier League. What about the Indian Premier League. I would say they get bigger crowds to their games, and probably a larger worldwide audience. Why can't they just be called the Premier League? Even England's two best players, do not even play in the "premier League" It should be called Foreign Billionaire Owners League. Almost none of the PL clubs are owned by the English. I can't wait for the 4 tier European Super Leagues. and eventually the WORLD LEAGUE. I am just asking, as someone got upset with me today for calling it the EPL, and insisted that it was PL. But to me, that is the Portuguese League. I don't know, maybe I am crazy. I am just so bored of the English Premier League. I just watch highlights to see clubs like Man Utd and Chelsea fail.

Diego Lugano said it best: "VAR was purely a political move".

Gutted its being kept

Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahaha screw off Wolves! Glad they're keeping VAR! 💪💪💪

But what about small teams they can go all the way up from amateurs to the top the English and rest of the world tier system is the only way American sports are rubbish it's just about adverts and money

Without VAR, my club is FINISHED VARla VARdrid 🥺😢🤍💪