{"id":1505,"date":"2026-04-06T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:06:23","slug":"all-that-remains-is-shame-gil-marin-hits-out-at-var-after-barca-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/all-that-remains-is-shame-gil-marin-hits-out-at-var-after-barca-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;All that remains is shame&#8217;: Gil Marin hits out at VAR after Barca defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Atletico Madrid CEO Miguel Angel Gil Marin launched a scathing attack on VAR and the refereeing standards following Saturday&#8217;s clash with Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atletico Madrid CEO Miguel Angel Gil Marin hit out at the officiating on Sunday, insisting that VAR &#8220;must only intervene to correct factual errors, not to make decisions in place of the on-field referee.&#8221; He added that &#8220;only shame remains&#8221; after reviewing the footage and &#8220;the audio&#8221; from the VAR review during the Barcelona match, specifically regarding the failure to dismiss Gerard Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When we see the images and hear the audio shared by the Spanish Football Federation, all that remains is shame. It is unacceptable that we are forced to listen to comments which completely contradict the correct operation of VAR, and yet nothing happens,&#8221; Gil Marin stated via the club&#8217;s official website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Referees have the same right to make mistakes as players, coaches, and executives, but errors in play are just that \u2013 errors. It is an entirely different matter when a VAR official predisposes the on-field referee while they are in the process of judging an incident,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Atletico chief executive argued that &#8220;the on-field referee must bear the ultimate responsibility and make decisions by interpreting the intention of each individual.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;VAR should only intervene to correct factual errors, not to decide in place of the on-field referee,&#8221; warned Gil Marin, who pointed to his side&#8217;s last two outings\u2014defeats against Real Madrid (3-2) and Barcelona (1-2). &#8220;It is not normal for different decisions to be made in identical incidents, for the criteria to shift, and for us to be left in the dark. This has happened to us across the last two matchdays. It makes no sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Atletico Madrid CEO reiterated his frustration over the inconsistent application of criteria regarding Gerard Martin&#8217;s non-sending off. He contrasted the decision with the explanation provided by the Referees&#8217; Technical Committee (CTA) for a similar incident during the Betis-Rayo fixture on matchday 25 of La Liga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Worst of all, the CTA itself explained a similar incident a few matchdays ago, asserting that it should have resulted in a red card. Yet yesterday, in an identical play, the referee made the correct initial call only for VAR to lead him into an error by overstepping its functions\u2014the very functions they explained to players, coaches, and directors, but which, regrettably, are not being upheld,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid CEO Miguel Angel Gil Marin launched a scathing attack on VAR and the refereeing standards following<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}