At the end of every season the Premier League’s stakeholders – that’s coaches, captains and fans, among others – are asked for their opinion on how the game is refereed.<\/p>\n
Last summer the high threshold for VAR intervention was supported by 80%.<\/p>\n
Clubs may feel they have been wronged, as Manchester United were at Bournemouth.<\/p>\n
But they don’t mention the times they benefited from this high threshold.<\/p>\n
Like the push by Leny Yoro before United scored at Fulham, or the penalty for Jaydee Canvot’s hold on Cunha (which also led to a VAR red card), or Diogo Dalot’s potential red-card challenge on Jeremy Doku.<\/p>\n
Clubs have selective memory when decisions go against them.<\/p>\n
There have been fewer VAR interventions this season, but the accuracy has remained the same at 94%.<\/p>\n
PGMOL would probably say that shows more decisions are being made on the field rather than being left to VAR.<\/p>\n
The independent Key Match Incidents Panel results say that on-field accuracy has remained stable, at 86%, since 2023-24.<\/p>\n
Take that on face value and on-field standards have neither improved nor regressed.<\/p>\n
English football’s biggest problem is that it doesn’t know what it wants.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t like VAR getting involved in games.<\/p>\n
The Premier League has the lowest intervention rate in Europe, but then you get clubs saying it must intervene more when a decision doesn’t go their way.<\/p>\n
Clubs are always unhappy when a decision goes against them.<\/p>\n
But they are strangely silent when they are the beneficiaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the end of every season the Premier League’s stakeholders – that’s coaches, captains and fans, among others…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-552077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}