Tottenham Hotspur should be celebrating a brilliant win against Sporting.
Spurs scored what looked like a perfectly valid last-minute winner at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Wednesday evening, causing pandemonium within the stands.
However, that jubilation was quickly replaced by anger as Spurs fans quickly realised that the VAR check was going to rule this goal out for offside.
This has proven to be one of the most controversial VAR calls in recent memory as replays seem to show that Kane is behind the ball when it is played by Emerson Royal – suggesting that the wrong decision was made.
Understandably, there has been a lot of furore amongst Spurs circles.
One man who was far from happy is former Tottenham midfielder Jamie O’Hara who used just two words to describe VAR, branding the system an ‘absolute disgrace’.
O’Hara clearly isn’t a fan of VAR, but the video replays aren’t the problem here.
Indeed, the fact that officials can re-watch incidents to make the right decision is a positive, but the fact that the wrong decisions are being made isn’t the fault of the system.
The problem is that the officials are either getting the rules wrong or that they’re applying them inconsistently.
VAR should only stand to aid the referees and linesmen, but far too often there are controversial decisions being made and perfectly good goals being disallowed.
Is VAR an ‘absolute disgrace’? Not at all, but does the system need tweaking to be more fine-tuned and more transparent? Absolutely.
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