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“Players will always dive,” a former agent argues, emphasising the necessity for improved VAR.

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If there’s one subject in football right now that will undoubtedly get fans, players, and managers furious, it’s VAR.

Even though it has been a feature of the game for a long, none of the officials in the top five leagues in Europe seem to be able to do it correctly.

In the most recent Liverpool vs. Newcastle match, both penalties appeared dubious to say the least, but VAR chose not to step in and suggest to the on-pitch official that he’d made a glaring mistake.

It makes sense why the Newcastle dugout members were upset following the game.

Super agent turned Premier League co-creator Jon Smith acknowledges that there will always be people trying to blindside officials, but he wants the entire decision-making process changed.

The fact that the referee’s ruling is now final is, in the end, one of the best aspects about VAR. Thus, the man in the middle still has the final say, even though the VAR can flag something for the official to look at,” he stated in his special CaughtOffside column.

“As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m a huge fan of VAR; yet, as we seen in the Liverpool vs. Newcastle match, there will always be player errors and diving.

It would be expected that the group of individuals in the VAR room could interpret these kinds of rulings with extreme speed.

 

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