Is it just me but do the TV companies seemingly get the answer of the award before the fans in the stadium do - it certainly feels like itQuite often you will hear a match pundit say the result before the ref actually does it
Quote from: Hookeysmith on February 18, 2020, 03:36:33 PMIs it just me but do the TV companies seemingly get the answer of the award before the fans in the stadium do - it certainly feels like itQuite often you will hear a match pundit say the result before the ref actually does itI think they have a monitor that gives the answer straight away. Sometimes there is check that isn't referenced within the ground but the commentator will mention it, more often than not when it is a cursory check that is easily dismissed. Like the one's involving an infraction against Aston Villa.
Forget 1st phase / 2nd phase or that he may have had a pube in the offside position after a few minutes of trigonometry Wenger speaks sense when it is the clear light between defender and attacker that should be the measure - have to give the attacker the benefit not the defender
I still believe it can work, but by god they are doing their level fucking best to make sure it doesn't.If you gathered 20 morons in a room and asked them how best to manage video refereeing they wouldn't be able to come up with a worse system than this.For the life of me I don't understand why they can't just swallow their fucking pride and directly copy the rugby union methodology, if necessary replacing the big screen replays with pitchside monitors if they really don't think a crowd of grown ups can handle seeing sensible justified decisions played out on a screen.
The fundamental flaw with using VAR for offsides is that the technology can't tell when the ball was played and therefore will never know to the millimetre whether someone is offside. Moving the line from the strikers cock to his arse won't change that. The simplest solution I've seen (probably on here) is to go with the linesmen unless VAR can definitively prove otherwise within 20 seconds. If disproving a decision takes longer than 20 seconds it can't possibly be a clear and obvious error and we should all just move on. The same time limit should be applied to all VAR decisions so if we're going to have our celebrations cut short at least it'll be quick rather than the current shitshow of not knowing whether we're allowed to cheer until the opposition kicks off 3 minutes after the ball's hit the net.
I still think that Souness has the best solution.If ANY part of the body is onside, then you are onside.