Mauricio Pochettino claims VAR has ‘damaged image of English football’ after Chelsea denied winner at Aston Villa

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  1. I hate that some people are so up in arms about it. Imo it was perfect use of var. Ref made a mistake and misjudged an obvious foul. It was such an obvious and clear foul. It’s wild to me that some claim it wasn’t a clear and obvious error and therefore the goal should stand.

  2. It has in that people understood and for the most part accept incorrect calls made during live matches. What can’t be accepted are errors when you are able to stop and review the calls.

  3. Media pundits are gathering once again to defend the bald frauds.

  4. Poch is just upset they didn’t get their weekly penalty.

  5. It’s a joke the way it’s being used of late, for me it wasn’t a clear and obvious error and the player knew it, he never protested when the on field decision was to award the goal.
    It’s an absolute disgrace Grealish’s handball wasn’t given in our semi final against Man City and Havertz’s goal was allowed to stand in the 5-0 match when there was a clear foul on Madueke. We really need to hear the conversations the officials are having while making these farcical decisions.

  6. I think Chelsea have done more damage by over inflating the price of average players making it difficult to buy anyone. I don’t understand what he’s complaining about it’s a clear foul so why the fuss ?

  7. Poch is showing he’s a shit manager. Pathetic excuse this.

  8. Lol. What a guy. Just a couple months back he gave a passionate post match speech on how we wanted technology in the game and now it’s here we can’t complain. But now it’s gone against him “it’s damaged the image of English football”. 😂😂😂😂 Which is it poch? 

  9. I am a very anti-var person. In this case though it did the job right. Poch knows var isn’t the issue to Chelseas shit season.

  10. Only an idiot or stevie wonder thinks that’s not a foul ..

  11. They were denied a winner because Disasi was offside. If Chelsea concede that goal, they’re kicking off.

  13. Because it’s Chelsea it’s not a bad decision. If it was Arsenal or Liverpool, you would all be defending him I assure you.

  14. In my opinion he’s both right and wrong.

    The decision was correct it was an obvious foul, how often do we see free kicks given when forwards try to shove the centre back to get an extra yard for the ball in behind.

    But he’s also right that VAR and the overall state of officiating has been awful and its not really a good look. Pundits, the media and fans will happily criticise players as not being “premier league quality” but none of the referees are either, and that needs to change

  15. That was a foul. If you’re going to make a song and dance about it you should at least make sure they got it wrong

  16. We all know he says VAR and not the English refs themselves damage football just not to get in trouble…

  17. VAR and the piss poor standard of refs has ruined English football not just VAR

  19. Nobody is saying it’s not a foul. It’s the clear and obvious but that’s the contentious bit.

  21. It’s a foul. Only problem about it all there have been so many decisions similar given/not given. Not to keep moaning about it but us v Newcastle, and I think Chelsea v Brentford something similar happened too. Probably Wolves too with the absurd amount of shit gone against them.

    All I want is some consistency in decisions, and adherence to the rules they create.

    But that’s a pipe dream, every other game is ruled with controversial decisions as they are so fucking incompetent.

  22. VAR is definitely negatively impacting football but that incident was to harmless relevant to the VAR discussion. If VAR weren’t a thing and refs knew there was no safety net it wouldn’t be surprising if they’d have called it as a foul on the pitch.

    Every team gets screwed over by refs since football began, you just have to be good enough that it isn’t a deciding factor. Chelsea aren’t good enough right now… give it till midweek lol

  23. I saw the push. The problem is that there was pushing that was allowed and wasn’t allowed. Recipe for inconsistencies.

    I think PGMOL needs to start defining things, in a way that is quantifiable that a ref can practically decide on the pitch.

  24. That was a significant push that prevented the Aston Villa player from getting to the ball. On some occasions, I’ve seen it overlooked, other times not. More like a 60 (yes, foul)/ 40 (no, no foul) to me.

  25. The problem is not the great tool but how some blatantly misuse it like regarded monkeys on adderall

  26. Problem with this decision is that the ref was looking right at it from a perfect view and decided it wasn’t a foul.

    VAR can only get involved if the ref has missed something – which wasn’t the case here.

    So this is re-refereeing which absolutely is not what VAR is there to do.

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