Mark Bullingham, the chief executive of the Football Association, has raised the prospect of the game’s global rule-making body examining whether audio between referees and VARs should be available live
Rugby broadcasts so much of what the referee says and it’s honestly great for the sport. Shows how players and refs should interact, gives a model for all levels of the sport.
Rugby broadcasts so much of what the referee says and it’s honestly great for the sport. Shows how players and refs should interact, gives a model for all levels of the sport.
But it’s all performative, they know and act like they’re talking live on tv.
I kinda prefer the unvarnished chaos we get to hear with VAR.
Also what’s being said is pretty much what you expect to hear.
Which is fine. They are operating to a standard and if they don’t do so it becomes obvious live on TV.