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You can’t release audio days later and think people are going to believe it. You do that right away. I’ve always said, if they are going to continiue with this VAR madness atleast have cams and mic on referees and VAR room all the time.We’ll see.
For me, this is still a bit bizarre:
1: None of the people in the VAR room noticed the linesman had actually flagged for offside and that the initial decision was to disallow the goal
2: Even though the initial eye check makes it look onside, it’s still a situation where they will use lines, yet no lines are drawn up and the check is almost instantly complete
3: The only dialogue between the VAR and referee is either “check complete”, which would then confirm the on the pitch decision, or something else limited to never actually saying player onside/player offside
4: No one in the VAR room noticed afterwards that the ref didn’t point for the halfway line to signal kick off, or that the Tottenham players were lining up for the free kick
5: After such a monumental feckup, there’s no wiggle room for them to instantly correct the situation due to miscommunication? I mean, we know that they can sort out situations even after the final whistle, but after miscommunication that leads to a goal incorrectly being disallowed they can’t sort it out because the ball is back in play? I mean, i’d understand it if VAR fecked up the lines and called offside, they can’t come back 2 mins later and go “oh we redid the lines he was actually onside”.
We’ll see if they release the actual audio, i think it sounds like an impressive amount of complete feckups happening at the same time