Today’s Football 2019/20 Season

[ToffeeTim]

If an offside cannot be determined by a still frame or super slow mo replay, then it's not clear and obvious and the onfield decision should stand.

If you need coloured lines to decide then it's not clear and obvious.

It's not bloomin rocket science.

 

[Tubey]

there not doing it with Microsoft paint ffs.

Its not far off! You're placing far too much faith in the officials subjectively using a deeply flawed technology.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Oh, and lads: There’s no conspiracy. Just so happens that the team across the park from us are by far the best in our league and among the best in the world right now. Not the loveliest thing to have to endure, but true nonetheless.

 

[MikeH72]

Because you suggested officials have loads of money riding on the outcome of games......

Do you know what a syndicate is?

 

[matty1878]

Oh, and lads: There’s no conspiracy. Just so happens that the team across the park from us are by far the best in our league and among the best in the world right now. Not the loveliest thing to have to endure, but true nonetheless.

There is tho open your eyes

 

[nsno-chris]

Its not far off! You're placing far too much faith in the officials subjectively using a deeply flawed technology.

ok

 

[Tubey]

Oh, and lads: There’s no conspiracy. Just so happens that the team across the park from us are by far the best in our league and among the best in the world right now. Not the loveliest thing to have to endure, but true nonetheless.

I have no problem with them being the best team and winning it. Genuinely none. I'd hate it obviously but it is what it is.

The fact VAR is giving it to them on a silver platter is the galling bit, and it would irritate me just as much if it'd been as blatant for City.

 

[efcjames]

The absolute state of this game.

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Why's the Ref not carding Mane there, looked a dive in real time, currently THE worst blagger of pens in the league.

 

[Toast]

Wolves causing them all sort here.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Hawk eye for LBW has an umpires call for marginal decisions because they accept the technology is not quite 100% accurate.

So why in the world does football not have something similar.

 

[captainvindaloo]

There are two things at play with offside. When the ball is first touched by the passer, and where the target player is at that precise moment.
The idea now is that technology is supposed to give us a more accurate measure of those moments. Trouble is, you still need a bunch of falable humans to decide what that moment is based on a video playback and where to draw the line.
If you truly wanted tech to run this you would have boot and ball sensors working with some kind of laser tracking device. This would give you an instant decision.
Bottom line for me is, the offside rule needs to be re-examined. There needs to be a margin of error that allows for some common sense to be applied to all this tech.
Like today. How can a hand over the line be offside, when the hands are not supposed to be part of the game (FOOTball)?
Seems we have a case of one man's precision is another man's error.

 

[Tubey]

ok

But it isn't. They're using a still frame from a match feed and effectively drawing a line with a few rulers. This isn't the same as crickets hot spot etc.

 

[longers]

If an offside cannot be determined by a still frame or super slow mo replay, then it's not clear and obvious and the onfield decision should stand.

If you need coloured lines to decide then it's not clear and obvious.

It's not bloomin rocket science.

have you not considered that the tech is probably a bit more advanced than some lad scrubbing video footage back and forth with a mouse ?

 

[Tea_drinker]

Theoretically, big gaps in time for var decisions involving the more 'globally popular teams' would lead to higher tv advertising revenues while the var decisions are being made.

If as was originally presumed that var gaps are being pushed in for advertising purposes.