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Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford slams 'dead' VAR saying it has 'killed the game'

Mar. 20, 2021
Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford slams 'dead' VAR saying it has 'killed the game'

Patrick Bamford has slammed VAR saying that it is 'frustrating' and has 'killed the game a bit'.

The Leeds United striker has found the back of the net 14 times this season, but has had two goals chalked off for narrow offside calls.

Both of the goals were originally given before VAR stepped in and overturned the decision.

The 27-year-old spoke to Youtuber Harry Pinero on the UMM channel as he took part in a game where he has to order three things.

Bamford was asked to rank what was the most frustrating in football out of VAR, not celebrating against former teams or corner kicks not beating the first man.

He responded: 'I celebrate against my old clubs anyway, for me that's nonsense I don't think you shouldn't celebrate.

'Most annoying is going to be VAR and I'd put the next two joint second. VAR is well clear.'

When asked to give his opinions on VAR, he said: 'It's dead, I think I've had two goals ruled out. One of them was because my elbow was offside and the other was because my hair on my knee was offside it was so close.

'It's mad, very frustrating. I haven't had it yet where I've scored and it's been given offside and then they check VAR and it gets given.

'I imagine that's annoying as well because you're celebrating then you're waiting and then I'm like do I celebrate again? It just kills the game a bit.'

The first of the two offsides Bamford refers to came in a 4-1 defeat for Leeds against Crystal Palace in November.

Bamford had a goal disallowed due to his upper arm being offside when his body was behind the two centre-backs that he then slipped behind.

The striker was pointing to signal where he wanted a cross to be played in to him and the goal was disallowed at a point in the game which would have seen Leeds go level.

Bamford then said Leeds were 'robbed' of a point after having a goal disallowed during a 1-0 defeat to Wolves last month.

Bamford's knee was adjudged to have been narrowly ahead of Conor Coady's trailing boot as VAR chalked off his equaliser.


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