{"id":131071,"date":"2023-12-14T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/14\/ally-mccoist-calls-on-premier-league-to-stop-using-var\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:00:59","slug":"ally-mccoist-calls-on-premier-league-to-stop-using-var","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/14\/ally-mccoist-calls-on-premier-league-to-stop-using-var\/","title":{"rendered":"Ally McCoist calls on Premier League to stop using VAR \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Scotland and Rangers legend Ally McCoist has called for the use of VAR to end after a number of huge errors in the Premier League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0<em>90min\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0podcast\u00a0<em>Life\u2019s a Pitch<\/em>to Republic of Ireland internationals Ruesha Littlejohn and Lucy Quinn, McCoist was asked to give his thoughts on the use of VAR in the Premier League, replying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought VAR would be good. My thinking was that anything that rights a wrong can be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s refereeing the game now, the referee is not refereeing the game now. It [takes too much] time. Look at that Liverpool penalty against Crystal Palace [that was overturned after a lengthy VAR check], it took about two and a half minutes to make a decision.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"vt5Uk8Z-O14\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Back From International Duty! Our Thoughts On JOEY BARTON | Ally McCoist On Life\u2019s A Pitch!\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vt5Uk8Z-O14?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe referees and assistants are not making decisions that they normal would because of VAR. They\u2019re thinking \u2018well if I don\u2019t get that right someone from VAR will tell me\u2019. Just let the referee referee the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I was for it [initially].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want it gone from the game. It\u2019s not going to happen though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VAR has been one of the key talking points of the 2023\/24 season thus far, with a number of notable errors costing teams valuable points in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most noteworthy, and egregious, error made using VAR technology was the decision not award a perfectly legitimate goal scored by Luis Diaz in Liverpool\u2019s defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in September. PGMOL apologised for the mistake, and put it down to \u2018significant human error\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"mLQxU422rrA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sports News in Twi: Rodri sees red! Mbappe injured! 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Speaking on\u00a090min\u2019s\u00a0podcast\u00a0Life\u2019s a Pitchto Republic of Ireland internationals Ruesha Littlejohn and Lucy Quinn, McCoist was asked to give his thoughts on the use of VAR in the Premier League, replying: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ally McCoist calls on Premier League to stop using VAR \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/14\/ally-mccoist-calls-on-premier-league-to-stop-using-var\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ally McCoist calls on Premier League to stop using VAR \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scotland and Rangers legend Ally McCoist has called for the use of VAR to end after a number of huge errors in the Premier League. 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