Honest question, is VAR limited by a certain set of circumstances for disallowing or allowing a goal?
For the PL they also say Checking goal - Onside/Offside/Foul/Handball etc.
Can they disallow a goal because the net was broken?
Yes, it is limited partially by the IFAB rules around resetting play, and possibly by internal league VAR rules (although I can’t think of any off the top of my head).
It’s stupid, but it is what it is. This is unrelated to your question, but VAR needs a basic overhaul to become “results” oriented. Get the right result at (nearly) any cost. Someone smarter than me can determine what nearly means in that context.
So you have to grant a goal two minutes later, big deal. What’s more of a travesty - granting a goal after 60 seconds of inconsequential play because you realised the mistake, or completely ignoring a valid goal because of the 60 seconds? In my opinion, the integrity of the sport is upheld even if a retroactive decision is taken provided it is done as timely as possible.
If you have to inform the players at halftime that a huge mistake was made and the goal was granted, so be it. It wouldn’t undermine anything. If a goal is scored in the interim, count both. I don’t know, I’m not the expert. But I’ve never understood the rationale behind “once the mistake is made, we have to live with it”. It’s arbitrary and we don’t HAVE to accept that as a fact of life. Set some simple rules around this and get everyone to realise it will happen, and voila, an instant reduction in controversy.
