There were some comical decisions pre-VAR. If it gets scrapped, prepare yourself for Man United scoring goals while 12 yards offside.
Regarding VAR being too slow, there is no need to have refs run over to a screen to make a decision. This should be done in the VAR room. “You got that one wrong, reverse it.” The only reason they persist with the running over to the screen pantomime is to protect the integrity of the ref but the integrity of the game should be more important. Really obvious stuff.
Also, convoluted ideas like ‘each team gets 3 VAR shouts’ is not necessary. Just have competent people there to correct the ref’s big mistakes.
On offside, the Wenger law solves nothing. It only changes the place at which the line should be drawn. Personally, I prefer the rule to favour the defender but if we were to revert to the daylight rule (Wenger law), I could cope. I see a lot of people saying that more leeway should be given but this too solves nothing. 15cm leeway? What about 16? 17? It will always, and indeed has to, come down to the smallest unit we can realistically hope to measure. Computers could take human bias out of the decision but people will always be on or off by the width of a short n curly.
Whenever I imagine the VAR room, I picture 4 blokes sat round a table. One is tucking into a pizza, another is leaning back in his chair whilst eyeing a sideways copy of Nuts magazine and the other two are trying to do that thing where you turn your eyelids inside out.
Beep beep beep…
“Yeah, just give it, mate”