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VAR has made soccer worse

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I've had a telly on the wall for twenty years and I'll tell you what VAR took: the roar. A goal goes in and sixty people go up, and then they stop, and look at the screen, and wait, and the lad with the headset draws a line on a knee, and three minutes later someone says "it's fine" and sixty people go "oh". You can't un-stop a roar. The decisions are better, I'll give you that. The game is worse. Those aren't the same thing and the people who sold us this pretended they were.

— last_orders_liam

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I watched sumo for sixty years and the judges have reviewed close bouts with video since the 1960s. It takes thirty seconds and the chief judge explains the decision to the crowd aloud. I do not understand why football needed three minutes and silence. The technology is old. The manners are what is missing.

— SilverPine03

From the content side: the VAR pause is the single most clipped moment in football now. Not the goal, the pause. The faces, the wait, the screen. The sport accidentally built a three-minute suspense segment into every goal and the platforms love it. The fans hate it. Guess which one the league listens to.