Quote from: Allan C on July 10, 2020, 09:19:25 AMQuote from: The Edge on July 10, 2020, 08:42:20 AMI have hated var since I saw the first offside given for a toenail offside. They say it follows the letter of the law. Well breaking news- it doesn't. The letter of the law says "if a player is deemed to be in an offside position WHEN THE BALL IS PLAYED" If your going on such miniscule margins to call an offside then you have to be certain of the PRECISE moment the ball leaves the passing players foot. It's the elephant in the room which proves VAR is fundamentally flawed. Then you give all the power to the referee's pals to make a judgement call and guess what? They just use it to back their pals up to the hilt. With all the money involved in top flight football I'm surprised that no club has made a legal challenge over it. I'm beginning to despise top flight football.I hate VAR and always have. The problem is the “off side by a toe nail” is factually always correct and easy to give. Incidents like last night’s penalty come down to one mans opinion, some would give it the majority wouldn’t. It was always going to be this way the minute VAR was brought in.Offside by a toe nail also comes down to one man's opinion, specifically his opinion of the precise instant at which the ball is delivered. Every frame he gets it wrong he is wrong by 1/50 of a second during which time a receiving player running at 10mph will have travelled over 2 inches.
Quote from: The Edge on July 10, 2020, 08:42:20 AMI have hated var since I saw the first offside given for a toenail offside. They say it follows the letter of the law. Well breaking news- it doesn't. The letter of the law says "if a player is deemed to be in an offside position WHEN THE BALL IS PLAYED" If your going on such miniscule margins to call an offside then you have to be certain of the PRECISE moment the ball leaves the passing players foot. It's the elephant in the room which proves VAR is fundamentally flawed. Then you give all the power to the referee's pals to make a judgement call and guess what? They just use it to back their pals up to the hilt. With all the money involved in top flight football I'm surprised that no club has made a legal challenge over it. I'm beginning to despise top flight football.I hate VAR and always have. The problem is the “off side by a toe nail” is factually always correct and easy to give. Incidents like last night’s penalty come down to one mans opinion, some would give it the majority wouldn’t. It was always going to be this way the minute VAR was brought in.
I have hated var since I saw the first offside given for a toenail offside. They say it follows the letter of the law. Well breaking news- it doesn't. The letter of the law says "if a player is deemed to be in an offside position WHEN THE BALL IS PLAYED" If your going on such miniscule margins to call an offside then you have to be certain of the PRECISE moment the ball leaves the passing players foot. It's the elephant in the room which proves VAR is fundamentally flawed. Then you give all the power to the referee's pals to make a judgement call and guess what? They just use it to back their pals up to the hilt. With all the money involved in top flight football I'm surprised that no club has made a legal challenge over it. I'm beginning to despise top flight football.
if there was no VAR last night it would still have been a penalty as that’s what the ref gave VAR is there to right the wrongs but it failed last night
I've decided I don't want football on my birthday after all. At least it was the night before.
I never thought i would see us plumb the depths of the Sherwood/Garde era for spine free team performances. Yes the penalty was a joke but you use the injustice of that to energise as a team or, alternatively, you curl up into a ball hoping they don't kick you too hard. No prizes for guessing which one this Villa team did. Witless, gutless, useless.
Last night illustrated just how fragile our confidence is, which is inevitable for a team in our position. Until the ridiculous penalty award we were the better side but it was like a switch had transferred that self belief from us to them and from that point the result the inevitable.You just know that if it had been Samatta going down in the box there would have been no penalty and he’d have probably got booked for diving.
Our galcticosMingsMcGinnGrealishThey can all fuck off for meMcGinn - for not being in condition - he has had long enough and Douglas is fitter than everMings - Has become a media darling whilst forgetting to actually play football - a coward and a bottler - every game there is a mistake and most usually a goal directly attributed to him.Grealish - Hype has gone to his head - where is the Captain screaming at others that they are not good enough - Souness is right he is fouled so much because he hogs the ball too long