VAR appears to have robbed West Ham again of a decision again and highlights the inconsistences with the technology.
Lewis Dunk poked Brighton ahead away to West Ham at the London Stadium on 70 minutes but video replays show the goal should not have stood. The VAR official had a good look at the incident before wrongly awarding the goal.
There does appear to be a clear handball as Dunk controls the ball with replays showing it rebounding off his elbow, it also shows him pulling on Haller’s shirt before finding the back of the net, which would ordinarily result in it being ruled out, but VAR decided against being it’s usual, pedantic self in this instance. It appears Stockley Park said they didn’t have a clear view of the incident but Sky Sports certainly did like the video below shows.
VAR is becoming a farce losing more credibility week by week.
Robbed by VAR again pic.twitter.com/TuD3XKLUQZ
— West Ham Football (@westhamfootball) December 28, 2020
The handball isn’t even the thing I was complaining about. He almost ripped hallers shirt off his back
The ball changed direction after hitting the elbow, the referee’s decision was clearly wrong. The inconsistent application of VAR is undermining the “Respect” campaign as contempt for the officiating grows.
Sorry but we can’t have it both ways – the goal was allowed and it was the correct decision. VAR is here to stay whether we like it or not. At the moment it’s far from perfect – for example it can reveal if a player is offside by a nose hair or a finger nail but can’t tell if the ball has gone out of play by 3 feet down the touch line like against Man U. Clearly the technology must apply to the whole pitch! Changes to the offside rules are required to favour attacking play and goal scoring. Being offside by a stray hand or elbow is just ****ing everyone off! Fair enough – if a goal is scored and the part of the players body (head / foot etc) in contact with the ball is in an offside position, then the goal shouldn’t stand – but if the player scores with his head or foot or any part of the body that is not offside then the goal should stand even if another part of his body may be offside. This should stop a lot of the awful delays when the VAR is reviewing. Changes to the offside rules will go a long way to enabling VAR acceptance.
watch the ball carefully, the Soucek header hits Dunks thigh and the initial trajectory of the ball is upwards but then it hits his elbow and in an instant the trajectory of the ball changes to downwards which allows Dunk the shot, I can see it why can’t Stockley Park?
Moyes awful selection should not be overshadowed by talk of VAR. We were lucky to even get a point yesterday after that shambolic first half performance and the blame for that falls squarely on Moyes.
The beautiful game is successfully being messed up by Var and bad refereeing. Damage control is needed urgently before we have nothing left.
And proper ref and var performance assessments must be done, culprits brought to book, and inefficiencies and mistakes immediately corrected.
Please, please, please !!!
As for the handball, if that had been Haller’s elbow in their box and given against us we would all be saying what a joke VAR is for disallowing the goal.
On this occasion we were robbed by DM not playing the right team not VAR
Var is fast becoming an irrelevance. Becoming pointless. Bit like blaming a computer. Only as good as th information put in .or the operator. !
No VAR didn’t rob us, The management team did that by selecting the wrong team against a team who usually can’t defend or score goals. Our strengths have been set plays corners etc, today we revert to short corners ! Why, if it’s not broken don’t try to mend it.
What has Benhrama got to do to get on the pitch.
In this instance and quite often it’s not actually VAR that is the problem. The problem is the stupid new rules that they keep dreaming up and bringing in. The new handball rule is a joke.