Precisely when we are in the last line of the regular season in the Premier League, the referees ‘mistakes and the VAR referees’ mistakes at this critical moment of the season intensify time and time again, which causes quite a bit of criticism from home and abroad about what is happening today when it comes to refereeing.
The judges’ union tries almost everything possible to teach and learn, but in the end the decisions are drained to the same judges who are supposed to make decisions on the lawn and sometimes with the help of the VAR, but now the main question arises – why the judges do not get along with VAR photos. Getting involved and complicating themselves with wrong decisions?
A senior member of the Judges’ Union describes the situation today: “All over the world this issue of the VAR is not going through smoothly and the issue is in the process of learning. There is currently a particularly bad period and a proliferation of bad decisions. Judges come to VAR without confidence, there is a new phenomenon that has not existed in the history of the Judges Association that does not exist anywhere in the world. “Here they invented a global invention to issue a notice of the professional committee for any mistake or no mistake of the referees, even such messages that they did not pay attention to during the game.”
“The goal was to build trust in the judges, but the opposite is happening. The committee ran too fast to report mistakes, the judges did not feel backed up and confident. Take for example Erez Papir who was at VAR in a game in Kiryat Shmona and made a mistake mainly in red for Maor Kandil. “Papir Shefat is excellent two games last week between Sakhnin and Kiryat Shmona and between Bnei Yehuda and Betar Jerusalem and now because of the mistake in VAR he will find himself out.
“There is confusion all the time. Take for example the case between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Haifa, Ido Shachar’s goal, which was disqualified because of the referees’ directive that if the attacking player is close to the defensive player it is different. While the committee after 24 hours issued a statement that they have yet to decide on the case.If the professional committee does not know clearly to analyze what happened the day after the incident, then what do you want from the judges? The pressures are great, it is very difficult for the judge to be both VAR and judge. “Time to be professionals. The fact that the referee is good on the grass does not mean that he is good in the VAR system.”
Judge of the past Isaac son of Isaac Addressing the whole issue, he said: “The VAR took away my desire and excitement to watch TV games. You sit at home, see a cracked gate and then look on the iodine tip for what is different and what is not different. What referee needs the VAR to determine what a penalty and what Not a penalty? The issue of the VAR is a diligent failure. In my opinion, judges like Danny Koren or Eyal Tzur and others should be taken and combined with a VAR or alongside an assistant next to the VAR judge. We have young judges and amazing abilities and it is a pity that the VAR hinders and destroys The joy of the game ”.
A senior member of the professional committee sharpened the existing problem and said: “We need to put everything in order. In many cases we see that for some reason there is no VAR intervention and we will have to make difficult decisions. It is not one, two or three cases. Judges do not implement instructions we give and we will “Pay attention to the issue. We do everything, what’s more, the games are not that difficult to judge.”
A referee who serves as a central referee and as a VAR referee summed up the issue and said: “VAR does not have the ability to eliminate refereeing errors, it is designed to reduce errors, but still all over the world there are VAR errors, including in the Champions League and there are no interventions. “Of poor quality VAR photography, there are barely eight cameras in a non-central game. They made the decision from the grass and passed it to the screen referee, but in football there are gray things that the referee has to get while playing without the VAR intervening.”
“Past referees are less up to date on the progress of football and they are not there so it is not recommended to put them in the system. Not everyone can be in VAR, needs special training and not everyone is built for it. Need to train a special group for the subject, it is a profession for everything. It is very difficult to manage the VAR despite the trainings we undergo, the judges are helpless in quite a few cases. Must add cameras and transmission angles, as well as quality. Photography in quite a few cases is smeared and then you do not really know how to decide. The purpose of the VAR is good, but it took something from the game, the fluency in the game, but that’s the price of technology today and not just with us, including the law of the different. “In England, for a millimeter, goals are disallowed and that is what football did not want.”