The VAR Review 2025/2026

[SteelmaninOZ]

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[robsterwood]

What they say about Said goal?

[joewarkfanclub]

59 minutes ago, robsterwood said:

What they say about Said goal?

Its the September review.

This is October.....

[claretband]

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/13663/10-kmi-23rd-october-matches-18th-19th-oct-2025-outcomes.pdf


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[claretband]

On 10/25/2025 at 12:27 PM, claretband said:

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/13663/10-kmi-23rd-october-matches-18th-19th-oct-2025-outcomes.pdf


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I've never studied this report before but this is what they said re the Said "goal"

[MFCL84]

On 10/27/2025 at 3:21 PM, claretband said:

I've never studied this report before but this is what they said re the Said "goal"

That suggests that 33% of the panel don't have a clue.

[SteelmaninOZ]

 

[Spiderpig]

1 hour ago, SteelmaninOZ said:

 

Utter bullshit regarding St Mirrens 4th goal, the VAR team are agreed that the StM player looks at the motherwell player and then deliberatly leans into him to stop him getting the ball so they say foul and ask the ref to have another look, so all good so far. 

Then the ref looks again, ignores var and says it was a " normal football challenge ffs" and says nah im sticking with the original decision, so wtf is the point of VAR getting involved only for refs to ignore them, utter nonsense.

[well_said]

3 hours ago, Spiderpig said:

Utter bullshit regarding St Mirrens 4th goal, the VAR team are agreed that the StM player looks at the motherwell player and then deliberatly leans into him to stop him getting the ball so they say foul and ask the ref to have another look, so all good so far. 

Then the ref looks again, ignores var and says it was a " normal football challenge ffs" and says nah im sticking with the original decision, so wtf is the point of VAR getting involved only for refs to ignore them, utter nonsense.

The referees in this country are a bunch of incompetent fuds managed by the biggest incompetent fud of all.

[weeyin]

While I obviously disagree with the ref's decision, I am in favour of every ref ignoring VAR every time and just playing on without it. 

[texanwellfan]

Refs wouldn’t know a normal football challenge if it bit them in the arse 😡

[Mad Dog]

11 hours ago, texanwellfan said:

Refs wouldn’t know a normal football challenge if it bit them in the arse 😡

Which, presumably, would be a 'normal football challenge' that Uruguayan referees have to deal with.

[wellfan]

Football is one of the few major team sports where top refs rarely played professionally. Their perception of the game is completely tainted by a lack of real experience. They don’t fully understand the physicality of the game, how players time tackles, or the split-second decisions on the pitch. In rugby, cricket, or tennis, officials are often ex-players, so they instinctively know what’s fair. VAR only makes it worse, highlighting just how shit Scottish refs really are.

[weeyin]

I've seen multiple players and managers suggest refs attend training sessions to learn more about the professional game and how players approach it 

They definitely need something, because you often see decisions that make you wonder if they have ever even kicked a football for fun. 

[texanwellfan]

I’d be fine with their lack of knowledge if they just made consistent decisions. That’s what annoys me the most. Same or very similar incidents have different outcomes from ref to ref and even fro the same ref, game to game. I understand that will happen on occasion but for me, it happens much too frequently.