The people of Wolverhampton have their say on Wolves FC's push to scrap VAR

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00:00What it was bought in for was just for gold or technology.

00:05I bought it in for everything else, not going back too far for a dispute.

00:11It's just spoiling the game.

00:13Just spoiling the game?

00:14Yeah, just forget it.

00:15Do you reckon it's something that should be mimicked across the whole sport?

00:21Other sports use it more intentionally than what a football club does.

00:27Yeah, yeah.

00:28You get it in cricket, you board it, it's there, you've got an answer.

00:33You get a dispute, you need five minutes or more before you get an answer.

00:37Yeah, yeah.

00:38Rugby, cricket, they use it more mindfully, don't they?

00:41As it's meant to be used, sort of thing.

00:43I'm going to say they use it in rugby as well, but it's not better than what they use here for rugby.

00:47I think people listen to the refs in rugby though, don't they?

00:50Yeah, they've got more respect for the refs.

00:53So you agree?

00:54I agree.

00:55Get rid of it.

00:56Get rid of it.

00:57Get rid of it, unless they just do it for down the road.

01:00So, you're hanging about for two or three minutes while somebody makes a decision.

01:05Yeah.

01:07And then you've got to celebrate or not celebrate.

01:09Yeah, yeah.

01:10I don't understand it.

01:11No.

01:12So what it is, Wolverhampton, Wanderers, they're on about scrapping it, aren't they?

01:15They're putting a protest or...

01:17Yeah, yeah, putting a vote in it.

01:19So, you think he'd agree?

01:21Well, considering some of the...

01:24Well, to me, the poor decisions the Wolves have had this year, it's hardly surprising.

01:28They haven't had the rub of the green at all.

01:30No.

01:31And I know you can have that with human beings being referees, but...

01:35No, not to me.

01:36Yeah.

01:37I think if you've got to ask most of our generation...

01:41I think so as well.

01:42We did ask another gent and he said he's fine with it, as long as it's used responsibly.

01:47Exactly.

01:48A bit of intelligence behind it.

01:49Yeah, but it's like everything else, it's down to opinion.

01:52Yeah.

01:53And some of the decisions...

01:55I'm sorry, but like...

01:57Get cheated, do you reckon?

01:58Well, you're talking about the heel of a shoe or the...

02:01I mean, you know, it is offside according to the rules, but it's a game, isn't it?

02:08Yeah, in the end.

02:09It's all gone for me.

02:10I'm a totally different generation, same as Tatliff.

02:13Yeah.

02:14When you see defenders in the penalty area putting their arms behind their back...

02:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:18Are they supposed to balance?

02:20It's against all the laws of physicality.

02:22Yeah.

02:23But then again, it ain't a physical game anymore, is it?

02:25No, not at all.

02:26Not like it was, I keep saying it, when I grew up.

02:29But even the last few years, it's gone...

02:32Now, I'd be against it, to be honest.

02:35But, having said that, I don't pay my money down there, so...

02:40It's only opinion of the public, isn't it?

02:42Well, exactly.

02:43I mean, they're the ones that you've got to ask, you know, buying £30 to go and watch a match.

02:49I think it's a very good idea.

02:50Very good idea.

02:51It's a lot of controversy, and there's too many errors on people's opinion, I think.

02:56Yeah, yeah.

02:57So, we talked to a few people.

02:58They said that one of the solutions is to not use it, but use it intelligently, instead

03:02of just, you know, the way they're using it now sort of thing.

03:05What do you think?

03:06Well, I think so.

03:07I think it takes the pair away from the referees, and I think it should give them more.

03:12The way cricket is, like an umpire's call type thing.

03:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:16Obviously, offsides, I honestly think that there should be no lines drew.

03:21They should just look at it and think, if that looks offside, it's offside.

03:25If it looks, it don't look offside.

03:27It's not offside.

03:28But I think it's very opinionated.

03:31Yeah.

03:32I think you might see a penalty that I don't see, and that's the problem with people looking at it.

03:38Absolutely, yeah.

03:39Who did you spot again?

03:40Was it West Brom?

03:41West Brom, yeah.

03:42West Brom it is, yeah.

03:43Been stolen by a VAR decision before?

03:45No.

03:46No, not yet.

03:47But you give and take.

03:51You have a few.

03:52You don't have a few.

03:54Being a West Brom fan with the Wolves, they have been done quite bad this season on a lot of things.

04:03But yeah, people's opinions are different.

04:07Of course, yeah.

04:08So you take?

04:09You're all for it, you're against it?

04:11I would personally take it out.

04:13Take it out?

04:14Yeah.

04:15Fantastic.

04:16The goal line technology is marvellous.

04:18It works.

04:19There is an offside technology that they use, which is the Orkoi one, which they use abroad, which is very good.

04:26But we're stubborn here.

04:27We won't use it.

04:29But I think, as in penalty stuff like that, I think unless it's a really bad error, then I think it's a waste.

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