I think football is too fast paced for this kind of system to work. By the time a manager has decided he wants a review, notifies the VAR, and then they check it, the other team could have gone up the other end and scored.
It just wouldn’t be workable without slowing the game down.
Football isn’t like Rugby, Cricket and NFL. It’s breathless and relentless.
I’ll accept they aren’t implementing VAR very well in the premier league. But with a sensible calm approach that could be changed. It just needs people to put their egos to one side imo. Refs seem disgusted by the concept of them being a) wrong and b) told they are wrong. That’s part of why VAR decisions take so long. None of them really want to call each other out, and none of them want to get called out.
There’s no real need for the pitch side monitor. All that’s there for is to salve the referees ego and make them feel like they are the one making the call.
Yeah. I don’t know rugby or NFL very well so I could be wrong, but from my layman’s perspective something like rugby has more in-play, distinct stop-start phases than football. It seems to me like there are more ‘natural’ points during rugby matches for var to intervene. Whereas in football it’s always felt a bit clunky.