You just know the argument against that is that the punishment doesn’t rectify the situation that occurred in that match. So Player A doesn’t get sent off in that match, stays on the pitch and their team wins but gets a three match ban for the following matches. The losing team from the original match complains that they should have been allowed to play against ten and although Player A is banned for three matches, their team is able to play those three matches with eleven players. So, yes, it’s a punishment for the individual but it doesn’t have the same impact as a red card.
I’m all for retrospective bans though. We have it in North American sports and if you already have it in games like rugby it’s not like the FA could shrug it off as an attempt to “Americanize” football or something like that.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I’d much rather have retrospective bans than not because I do think it ultimately puts players on notice that the cameras will catch it. Maybe not in the moment, but they will pick it up. There are obviously details to iron out if the PL moves to that sort of system like who reviews the footage (the match day official, a special panel, can clubs submit clips themselves they want reviewed) and how decisions are handed down (is there a deadline to hand down bans, can clubs appeal them, should any decision have a written explanation so the public understand why Rodri is banned for three matches for stomping on someone’s ankle).
I was just anticipating the argument against it which is, as you pointed out, that there’s no immediate benefit to the team on the receiving end of a nasty challenge.
I was thinking about half-time reviews yesterday, such a shame that the ref didn’t walk over to the idiot who nearly ended Tommy’s season with that tackle and issue a red card at the start of the second half. A bit more of that and I think the message would get through to the players.
I did think this. Pawson couldn’t have had a more perfect view of this, VAR shouldn’t have interfered, especially where worse fouls (cough Newcastle) aren’t given.
Dont think 14 clubs will go for it. It would be a backward step and essentially its letting PGMOL away with incompetence instead of insisting on their improvement.
I like that its Wolves submitting the proposal. That feels pointed
and theeeeeeeeere it is that is what they wanted all along with all of the ‘mistakes’ they made. They always wanted it out of their way so they can go back to easily making corrupt calls with no tech in their way.
It’s not gonna pass and when it doesn’t it will be a long time before it’s ever raised again so what’s the next step in their genius plan when this fails to pass?
If it was used and implemented correctly, and when used properly, VAR is needed, but in its current form it’s absolute dogshite and needs fixing, not scrapping altogether imo
Without VAR, shit decisions but the excitement of celebrating goals remained.
With VAR, still shit decisions, but also killing the excitement factor from the game.
