Notices by Johan Halse (hejsna@ruby.social)

VAR is a joke and I don't want it anywhere near Swedish football. Miscarriages of justice feel even worse when perpetrated by video people who have advanced equipment and can replay something however many times they want. VAR just leads to stoppages and discussion, and the decisions ultimately seem just as arbitrary as when the ref does them. And the ref is a lot easier to forgive, because they're doing their job in the moment, on the pitch.

UEFA ultimately conceded error and suspended these two video referees, but these things happen with alarming regularity. Just scrap the whole thing. Probably keep the smartwatch goal-line tech, but that's as far as I want to go. Football is played by humans and should be decided in the moment as it's played, not pored over by idiots in a control room. That's for pundits, later.