Chaos of Liverpool and Tottenham spells the end of video technology in the English Premier League!

The video assistant referee “VAR” technology in Liverpool’s match against Tottenham, the last match in the English Premier League, sparked great controversy, because it canceled a correct goal by Liverpool player Luis Diaz, due to offside.

The crisis in Liverpool’s match against Tottenham demonstrated the failure of the technology that was applied in the tournament 4 years ago, and witnessed many catastrophic errors, and last Saturday it was made clear that officials are not qualified enough to use this technology.

Virgil van Dijk was reluctant to comment on what happened during the match against Tottenham and Liverpool’s 2-1 loss due to a serious error from the technique and admitted that he “lost his faith in VAR.”

The Liverpool star said when asked about Luis Diaz’s goal, which was disallowed in the first half of the match: “It’s a bit strange. I don’t know who was in the video assistant referee room and made this decision. It’s not a good thing. We lost.”

Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp stressed that this defeat is “the most unfair of defeats,” and Gary Neville said on his account on the social networking site “X” that the apology issued by the English arbitration committee shortly after the final whistle of the match should have been enough to calm Liverpool’s feelings. With injustice.

But in fact, saying sorry cannot just be the end of the matter. This farce must end and VAR must be eliminated quickly.

In the following report, Yalla Shoot monitors the developments in the Tottenham-Liverpool match crisis due to the disastrous error of the “VAR” technology as follows: –

VAR is not effective
The introduction of this technology into football was welcomed as a late step but the decision-making process was quick, transparent and efficient.

The hope was that VAR would bring a level of objectivity to the application of the rules that would make the game fairer, as well as significantly reducing accusations of bias from angry fans and the spread of ridiculous conspiracy theories.

Now Liverpool claim that “sporting integrity” has been “undermined” by the events of last Saturday evening in the Premier League.

“Undermining sporting integrity”
Liverpool FC said in a statement: “We fully accept the pressures under which match referees work, but these pressures are supposed to be alleviated, not exacerbated, through the presence and application of VAR technology. Therefore, it is unsatisfactory not to allow sufficient time to allow the correct decision to be made and not No subsequent interference will occur.

“To actually classify such failures as ‘major human error’ is unacceptable and all outcomes should only be determined through review and in full transparency,” the statement continued.

Neville said the wording of the club’s statement was “dangerous” and had some justification and there certainly should not have been any suggestion that anything unexpected was happening in the Tottenham match as the refereeing panel admitted it was merely a case of “major human error”.

For this reason, the abolition of VAR technology in its current form is necessary. It is not the technology that is at fault here, but rather those who work on it.

Apologies are worthless
Liverpool are not the first victims of the “VAR” technology. The English Referees Committee issued an apology in August 2022, and as Klopp said, this apology represents very little and Liverpool will not be able to recover Luis Diaz’s goal, and the matter was repeated with the Wolverhampton team, which did not get the penalty kick. It should have been given to them at Old Trafford earlier in the season.

It is good, of course, for officials to admit their mistakes, but that does not help the teams that lost points. Because of these mistakes, the teams can drop on goal difference or win titles by one point.

Technology kills the joy and slows down the game
Mysterious fouls and controversial calls are nothing new but football cannot be completely error-free.

The controversy surrounding the red card received by Curtis Jones is a perfect example of this, as Neville felt that the Liverpool player only deserved a yellow card for not being intentionally offensive while other critics insisted that he deserved to be sent off.

The problem is that offside decisions should be clear in theory but because the lines are drawn incorrectly and it takes too long to determine if a player’s shoulder is offside or not it is ridiculous and goes against the spirit of the game.

Most of the time, fans are willing to accept that officials make wrong decisions, as the one at fault is a human being, but what cannot be accepted is that officials make chaotic decisions when they have the opportunity to replay.

If they fail to implement offside cases like those that occurred in the Liverpool-Tottenham match, then what is the point of applying technology? In fact, this technology kills the joy of celebrating goals and leads to slow reviews.

“A disastrous day for VAR”
When VAR was first introduced, the prevailing idea was “minimum intervention, maximum benefit” but now we are seeing matches being stopped at regular intervals and incorrect calls being made so the positives do not outweigh the negatives.

What happened in the match between Liverpool and Tottenham, as Alan Shearer pointed out on the “Match of the Day” program, is incomprehensible. The former England striker said: “It was a difficult day for the officials and the video assistant referee. We saw some shouts and confidence will be difficult in the future.”

It is clear that more transparency and better communication would help solve technology crises, but the problem is that Van Dijk is not the only one who has lost confidence in technology, as many players and coaches agree with the Liverpool star.

Liverpool is right to search for a “solution”
VAR was meant to make things easier for officials, but it actually makes things worse and it has been all but confirmed this season that the technology can only be used effectively to determine whether a ball has crossed the goal line or not.

It is clear that Liverpool will receive a lot of criticism for being a “loser” and on the path to “escalation”, but the truth is that Liverpool is making the right move and fair solutions must be found for this matter, otherwise more ridiculous mistakes will be made.

Other clubs, coaches, players and fans must support Liverpool in this situation because the only possible “solution” to stop these farces is to get rid of the “VAR” technology.