Quote from: ChicagoLion on November 10, 2019, 10:50:15 AMQuote from: PeterWithesShin on November 10, 2019, 01:26:18 AMThe line goes through the defender's head, they aren't filling me with confidence about how accurate they are. I was watching this live and they kept doing the thing with the lines and it is remarkable that they ruled it offside.Sorry to bring physics into it, but isn’t there a parallax problem here? The line goes along the floor, so anything on the floor is judged properly. But the defender’s head and shoulder is a distance (1.4 to 1.8m?) above the floor. Because the line isn’t square to the camera, it will make the defender’s head and shoulder look further forward than they are in reality. In other words the camera angle makes it look like the defender is playing the attacker on side, when in reality he isn’t.It’s the sort of problem that image processing can deal with, but can’t show in a convincing photo.By the way, this isn’t a defence of VAR, I hate the way it stifles the spontaneity of the game with a passion.
Quote from: PeterWithesShin on November 10, 2019, 01:26:18 AMThe line goes through the defender's head, they aren't filling me with confidence about how accurate they are. I was watching this live and they kept doing the thing with the lines and it is remarkable that they ruled it offside.
The line goes through the defender's head, they aren't filling me with confidence about how accurate they are.
The refs need to go over and watch the monitor footage. That is what the female refs were doing at the Women's World Cup and VAR seemed to work far more smoothly in that tournament than it has in the men's game. Apparently Mike Riley who is in charge of the refs was against that but has backed down due to all the media criticism. I think having the refs review the monitor footage will be a step in the right direction.
Between Dermot Gallacher and now Neil Swarbrick (On 5Live this afternoon), I think we're being taken for mugs. Just wait until this farce costs trophies, relegation etc.
One thing I’ve not seen mentioned about yesterday’s VAR decision (on the handball), was that it led to a goal. Surely that should have been chalked off, like the Man City (v Spyrs) goal was earlier in the season?
Quote from: CT on November 11, 2019, 07:11:27 PMBetween Dermot Gallacher and now Neil Swarbrick (On 5Live this afternoon), I think we're being taken for mugs. Just wait until this farce costs trophies, relegation etc. You'd expect Swarbrick to try to defend himself, but his self delusion is monumental:https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/503806417/10 so far? It's absolutely dreadful, every single weekend, and is getting worse. The worst thing is the appalling lack of consistency.
... What we have with VAR is machines partly running games. It used to work perfectly ( because errors we accepted as part of the game) when humans ran the games. VAR can only work when it runs every bit of the game robotically. The mixture of technolgy and human judgement is an attempt to grow oranges on an apple tree. The hybrid system we have currently is a Norwegian Blue parrot.