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‘Killing the game’: Socceroo blasts VAR as Mariners win red card appeal – Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne City star Jamie Maclaren says error-making officials are ducking the same public scrutiny that players and coaches routinely cop for their mistakes.
Maclaren, whose City side face Sydney FC in a grand final rematch on Tuesday night, could not hide his frustrations in an interview with the ABC Grandstand Football Podcast.
We as players, if we dont perform to our best, we get told about it, Maclaren said. We wake up the next morning and its in the papers, but the referees, they get away with it.
They finish the game and they can just hop in their car and drive home without explaining their decisions.
The VAR has split opinion in Australia since…
