On the whole I agree about the over implementation and my hatred is only due to time taken for decision and how this has killed the celebration of a goal. Now you just look at ref for dreaded possible da da da.
But your argument about Cavani example simply makes no sense. I could see from replay that contact was not inside the box so “fabricating a situation” seems odd. What is clear and obvious about millimetres is if replay shows mm’s outside box then it is so, no?
What I mean with the Cavani decision is that the foot is clearly on the line, it's not
clear and obvious that the 'contact started' millimetres outside of the box.
The ref has given it as a penalty and in my opinion that's too close a call to wait god knows how long for some numpty miles away to get his geometry set out and start calculating things to the greatest possible degree.
That sort of incident shouldn't even be reviewed in my opinion. Not because it would have gone in our favour in this instance, just for the fluidity of the game and tempo.
For the record I disagree with the penalty we won and the red card Bednarek received, it's clearly a dive from Martial. Mike Dean should have reversed his decision, instead because VAR is involved he goes and compounds his error by giving a red card. All because the rules are being changed and bastardised to fit this floored technology.
Likewise I believe their goal that was disallowed is a perfectly acceptable goal, I can't see any clear offside whatsoever, he looks onside to me.
It's just messy. It will always be messy. The moment we took a step past simple goal line technology we were always going to end up neck deep in messy over analysis. Ultimately the floor in the system is human error, that will never change, so it will never be this perfect system that people seem to think it will eventually become.
Human nature dictates that those in charge will be too pig headed to acknowledge it's adversely affected the sport and they will press on with it, changing the rules every few weeks to try and make it fit, ultimately it won't.