This is well worth a listen if you’re at all interested in football The main things I got were: refereeing is more art than science, often more subjective than objective they need the VAR referees to be VAR specialists the system by which they score referees is ‘interesting’ I still don’t really know ... mattypenny.micro.blog

@mattypenny Just read the transcript. What a superb read!

Roberto Rosetti has it about right, I think: 'Too often, said Rosetti, it’s being used to “investigate every single detail” of matches. Using VAR in this way is “dangerous”, he continued, because good refereeing means accounting for the “spirit of the game”, which technology cannot do. Once, when Rosetti experimented with using VAR to review every incident in a single match, he found seven penalties and three red cards, according to a strict reading of the laws of the game. “But this is not football,” he said.'

@davidmarsden yeah, it was really interesting stuff. Amazon or someone should make a fly-on-the-wall documentary like they've done with a couple of football clubs

Specifically on VAR - sitting in a room in silence scrutinizing a TV screen in minute detail needs such a different skillset to refereeing IRL it seems mad that you've got the likes of Andre Mariner doing it.

I don't know if I'd scrap VAR, but it needs a bit of a re-think