Mic'd up match officials on sky

[Muggins]

It all just sounds like absolute chaos.

That was my view after watching both the videos.

 

[LEONARD]

I don't know about Mic'd up?

But I would like to see a few Wired up, to the National Grid.

 

[kenada_blue]

Agreed.

I think a solution would be to say the on field ref has final say on any decision. If VAR think there has been an error, they say to him, we have looked at the replays and we think this should be a penalty, go have a look for yourself. It is then up to the on field ref to decide if he agrees or not. Use VAR as an aide for the ref, not some opaque arbitrary decision maker.

Said the same for years and nothing has changed.

Leave it to the ref. If he wants to review something, he'll ask. Not the other way around.

Offsides - the minute you have to think about getting lines out on shoulders etc, it's not offside.

Unless is the ref has missed something completely (violent conduct etc), just leave it to him and the linesman IMO

 

[MinkyJoe]

Not sure about corruption but definite incompetence is at play. The betting companies have made million pound profits year upon year without resorting to any such corruption and now all of a sudden you're saying they can't do that anymore - they need the system to be rigged?

Anyway regardless of corruption or incompetence the offside law is an absolute joke.

Scenario 1. A diagonal ball gets floated into the box and the defender is aware that there's an attacking player close by, attempting to attack the ball. He also pretty sure this player is offside but, just to be safe, heads it behind the goal line. Now it would seem to go against any natural justice to award a corner, being as the attacker was indeed offside, but that's exactly what is given. How thick do you have to be to come up with a law like that?

Scenario 2. This happened to West Ham around the 20-21 season I think. Once again a defender thinks an attacker is offside but not completely sure, so attempts to clear a ball from the box, he's stretching and doesn't make an effective clearance. This is all down to the presence of the attacker, who is offside. Due to this ineffective clearance the ball lands at the feet of another opposition player, who is onside and he puts it into the net. It would obviously be a joke to give a goal rather than the offside decision that, once again, natural justice demands? Nah - it's a goal.

Never underestimate the stupidity of football officialdom.

 

[stony]

The most interesting one to me was the man city goal, the keeper had a clear view of the ball regardless of the man city players position and did a full dive, just didn't reach it.

They called it spot on

I thought it was offside when I first saw it and still think it's offside after hearing their nonsense reasoning for awarding it.

 

[the golden visionary]

I thought it was offside when I first saw it and still think it's offside after hearing their nonsense reasoning for awarding it.

I don't, same as I don't think siggurdsons vs man u was offside either, imagine having a law were offside was actually offside.