League Cup Semi-Finals — First Leg

What a ludicrous VAR decision at St James Park.

That City offside decision by VAR was pathetic. Football has gone for me. Bloody rubbish.

What have they done to this once great sport?

Absolutely killed it, Paul. I had a feeling there would be the usual controversy once I saw who the ref was, along with his sidekick in the VAR room.

But I can't even really get angry or frustrated anymore because those type of emotions are now being replaced with apathy.

Ridiculous decision.

Utter and complete madness.

There is no way the defender gets that ball. It's past him in a flash.

"Subjective offside"... what absolute garbage.

The powers that be need to do something about this. Perfectly good goals disallowed for complete nonsense reasons. Have they lost all common sense?

Justice.

Anyone understand why they still keep VAR?

The Barcodes game today a prime example to scrap it and save some money.

The goal Man City had chalked off by the referee took VAR officials 5 minutes to decide it was too close to call then just sent it back to the referee to chalk off the goal he had just given.

It was too close to call and came down to dirt on the defender's orange boot or dirt on Haaland's sock. It was just guesswork.

The referee had a poor game and lost control early on when Jolinton should have been red carded for a shin tackle on Foden and after that there were yellow cards galore.

The right team won in the end but the best man on the pitch was Lewis Hall who has to be England's left back at the World Cup.

Tom,

I agree 100 percent.

It's time to ditch this ridiculous tool now that is being used by even more inept tools.

I mean would you let Laurel and Hardy use a jackhammer and expect a smooth ride?

It's time for them to swallow their pride and just accept that VAR has been a complete failure in this country, they don't know how to use it, they don't understand the dynamics of fine margins and the whole thing has taken the moment away from the fans.

Last night's game was a clear example of 5 minutes messing about to still make a decision that was nowhere near unanimously correct anyway and the irony of that goal is if the dirt on Haaland's boot had been onside they'd have checked for a penalty.

It's a joke, simple as that.

Football is being killed by VAR, we had a weekend of FA Cup ties with no VAR so if you scored and the ref pointed to the centre circle you could celebrate, what a difference from VAR checking everything before a goal is confirmed.

Last night, VAR ruled a goal by City offside, they spent over 5 minutes checking whether Haaland's heel was offside by millimetres. Last week, I saw VAR award a goal to Liverpool because Wirtz was less than 5 centimetres offside, never heard that rule before, but if it is a rule then City's goal had to stand.

We were told VAR would only get involved if a clear and obvious mistake by a ref, now they look at the most miniscule of things.

I know they wont scrap VAR but it's killing the game, also why are football fans not treated with the same respect as other sports who have their variations of VAR, were they can see and hear what the officials are discussing???

Next up, Brian, they are going to determine whether a corner is a corner!