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Re: F GLOVA - MKD v England
DIR By: bmb
Date: November 22, 2023, 7:38 am
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> [quote author=Ashington46 link=topic=5396.msg71230#msg71230
date=1700651720]
> Sadly, many human beings are unable to do their job to their
full capability when someone is looking over their shoulder. It
also affects people who may be carrying out simple tasks, such
as typing, sewing, painting etc. ---they do not feel comfortable
when people are standing over them.
>
> Officials are human beings, every one is different, however,
at the top level they have VAR looking over their shoulder and
this will have a profound effect on a number of them,
consequently, they do not do the job to the best of their
ability.
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> Get rid of VAR and you get rid of this problem. We can then
criticise officials for their onfield performance and not
constantly be questioning whether or not VAR should be involved.
End of the day, VAR just introduced further opinions on what we
fans and ex-officials see differently anyway. The game is dying
on its feet as a spectacle with long delays while the committee
decide on a decision which may, or may not, have been correct in
the first place. Heaven forbid that this plague spreads further
down the pyramid.
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If referees can't do their job when people are looking over
their shoulder they won't progress far. We are all observed
from a very low level both professionally (for progression) and
informally (by people watching games who all have an opinion).
No one will forgive a centre forward for missing an open goal on
the basis that someone was watching him; it goes with the
territory. Refereeing is a pressurised role. Anyone who can't
cope with such scrutiny is not in the right job.
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I think there's a whole different level of looking over your
shoulder with VAR to fans/players/coaches and even observers.
Fans/players/coaches only notice the ref when they make an error
or they perceive them to have made an error. An observer is
tucked away unobtrusively in the stand somewhere and there is no
communication with them during a game. Referees get nervous
about observers even more so at lower levels. I remember
observing a young lad who I had seen 2/3 times without him
knowing I was there or who I was and he had a lovely style of
refereeing, when I pitched up as his official observer on the
day he literally fell to pieces, he changed his style and
everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. I ended up talking
with him at length about the referee I had seen when he didn't
know I was there & the referee I saw when he did and ended up
mentoring him and working with him on fixing the falling apart
element. He's doing great now.
VAR is completely different, VAR is there for the referee and
only the referee, they are scrutinising every single decision,
not that different to an observer in that respect but their
scrutiny is different and more intrusive. Every single time you
blow your whistle, or even if you don't they can suddenly be in
your ear, questioning your decision. You could argue well
players do that constantly during a game but there is a whole
world of difference between a player trying to win a foul or
protesting their innocence over a foul against them and whom is
highly unlikely to have a very good knowledge of the LOTG than
there is a colleague who knows the LOTG inside out telling you
in your ear that they think you have called one wrong. From a
psychological perspective that immediately sews the seeds of
self doubt and knocks confidence. The bigger the stage the
bigger the self doubt, the higher level of confidence lost.
Human nature. It depends on the individual as to how well or not
they deal with that. A highly respected, strong, confident
referee is less likely to allow those doubts than a young,
(Filip Glova is 35) upcoming ref who is still trying to prove
themselves. Having that thought in their mind that they have
made a mistake is not good for their match focus and confidence.
Most refs I know don't see VAR as a part of their team in the
way they do an AR, by that I mean when an AR flags for a foul
the ref has missed, they give it and think no more of it - the
AR is part of their team and it's the team working together.
They do not see VAR in the same way, many see it as a huge red
flag to everyone in the stadium or watching on TV that they have
messed up, called one wrong and that affects their focus. UEFA,
and every Federation for that matter should have a mental health
support program that focuses on that aspect and helps referees
to learn a mindset whereby they see VAR as just another part of
the team and when they flag something up it is no different in
terms of teamwork than if it were an AR flagging the same thing
up. They need to teach them how to maintain their focus and not
allow the nagging doubts caused by a VAR intervention to maybe
overwhelm them. They don't though despite how much of a positive
effect it would have.
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