Brendan Rodgers expressed his displeasure with the much-maligned VAR yesterday. His critics will very certainly say it’s a case of sour grapes, but it’s a feeling that has been boiling beneath the surface for quite some time.
Brendan, like the majority of the football world, whether that be players, coaches, or supporters, are all growing tired of the technology, or at least the way the technology is being used by VAR officials. It really has disrupted the game we love and is even on its way to destroying it.
VAR was brought in to aid officials and end controversial calls in the game. But if anything, it’s made it much worse. Even with the new fangled technology, it’s still as controversial as ever, and this goes well beyond Celtic games; it appears to be across the board.
It’s done nothing to aid the game and has become a hindrance. Some say it’s not VAR that’s the problem, more that it’s the same incompetent underfire officials who are now calling the shots behind the new technology, and they would have a very valid point.
Every single player, coach, pundit, and supporter say the same thing. Whether that’s in Scotland, England, Germany, Australia, or Brazil, it’s universally loathed.
As a supporter, it’s very frustrating. You can’t even celebrate your team’s scoring now without a nagging doubt about the legitimacy of the goal. The euphoria of your team scoring a goal is one of the best feelings in life. That is now being taken away from us.
Even if the goal is eventually given after a VAR check, the celebrations are nowhere near the same at any game you see that happening.
It’s killing the beautiful game. It’s time for VAR to go in the bin, and I’m sure the overwhelming majority of football supporters agree with that sentiment.
Here’s what Brendan had to say about it yesterday, a week after not wanting to talk to The Celtic Star about VAR failing to intervene for that block on Kyogo in the St. Mirren game, just days after VAR did get involved at Ibrox to award the Rangers a penalty lifeline in the 85th minute of a game they were losing.
‘If you ask me right now, I would get rid of it.’
