but this is how it should work...
• all players should have a right to video review
To ensure this fundamental right, the VAR must have the authority to completely overrule the official.
ie there's no reason for him to spend time looking at a screen
However... appeals to the VAR should only be made via objections from a specific player.
And... if that player looses his appeal, that player can be penalized with a yellow card.
Any player can challenge the official, but frivolous objections can get a player sent off!
This gives all players the right to due process while ensuring that the VAR can not be abused.
This is open to abuse by players who won't mind getting booked. But I like the idea of a review initiated by an objection by trainers or captains.
What we are seeing is the growing pains of VAR. It changes the dynamics of penalty and red card calls.
Before, a referee wouldn't make these extreme calls unless 105% sure. if they were 95% sure, they would let it pass. But now, they can go back and watch it.
well it shouldn't disrupt play so the only abuse is time wasting which is nothing new. This would just be another tactic among many others.
i guess it would have to stop play sometimes so yeah, it would be abused but no more so than other established tactics like feigned injury.
overall, it could bring more justice to the game. I don't think the current VAR status quo is going to survive, and I hate to see this idea simply discarded.
They need to introduce backchat rules to soccer, to stop players abusing the referees it is the only way VAR will ever work without disrupting the flow of games.
Video replay should be for blatant mistakes. It is being overused not just in World Cup but many sports.
No VAR Justice for Mbappé! – a perfect example of why players should be allowed to directly appeal to VAR.
Rodríguez should have been allowed to force a VAR decision: either Mbappé gets booked for feigned injury or he gets booked for frivolous appeal.
Only one player should have been booked.
