VAR Decisions - PL 19/20 Season

Are you in favour of VAR in the PL?


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sewey89

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How many passes will they insist on checking in the build up? Where do you draw the line?
Anything under 10. But they’ll also check the 13th pass before a goal under the “Unlucky for some” rule.
 

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Yes, I can't help myself laughing at the idiocy of thinking players emotional draining from celebrations are at all relevant to the rules of the game.
Are you 9?

In my very first post on this today I mentioned the time it took to get to the decision. NOT THE DECISION ITSELF.

By the time var has faffed around with its stupid lines and freeze frames that are not accurate enough, yes players have celebrated.
It needs to be quicker and on a ref watch beeper or something AND more accurate, obviously that’s just my opinion.

You seem to read and take what you want from it. You’ve had your fun trying to be condescending though so I’m sure you’re happy enough.

You’ve also, in every single post you’ve quoted and replied to me, ignored the other points I make about similar goals being not given offside and blatant penalties not being given, so, what does your fairness and ‘illegalness’ think of these if that’s all that matters?
 

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I don't know why people are so upset with Chelsea's goal being called off. The linesman should've raised his flag and called Mount offside because he was offside.

Linesman missed it, and therefore technology intervened to correct the wrong call. What's the fecking problem? That "too much time passed before the goal was scored"? The goal should've never been bloody scored in the first place because the linesman should've seen that Mount was offside.
That’s fair and I agree totally the linesman missed it and it should have been offside straight away, there must be a time limit to this set out though, what if the offside happened just twenty seconds earlier? Or a minute, or 2?

As someone posted earlier the guidelines are far too vague.
 

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Just put a chip in the t-shirts, in the same location, for example in the PL crest and call the offside automatically on referee's watch.

This offside calling on millimetres is ridiculous when from a frame to another, there is a different result. All these fancy projections, why?

You just need one point of reference on the body. You still have to control the ball and get yourself in a scoring / passing position. The legs can't run without the body. If you go for precision, then you should take that out of human hands.
 

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None of which has to do with thinking calls should be based on the emotional drainage of players celebrations.

The ball bounced off of a Liverpool player, so what? That isn't a new phase of play. Mount's offside allowed them to put the ball into the box, the ball never left the box again and they scored. All the same phase of play.

Liverpool's goal came over 3 crosses later. Whether you want to argue that is still the same phase, go ahead. It is of no relevance to the discussion of emotionally draining celebrations mattering though. Keita's goal wouldn't be allowed over Azpi's because he managed to exert an extraordinary amount of emotion during his celebration making it legal.
I'm not into the celebration argument; there was 4 passes in that play, one is the header for the goal.

On the one today the goalie and one Liverpool player touched the ball, and about 5 passes before the ball into the box.

What happens if Liverpool huffed the ball it bounce off Salah and went in?

I just think it's inconsistent which isn't good, you can see that Liverpool had two chances to reset the play.
 

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I'm not sure I understand your point. I just think the rules have to make it clear or soon before we know VAR could be used to cancel goals because of offsides that happened a minute before.
Because the linesman are told to leave tight decisions to VAR so not to halt play with an incorrect decision. Basically all offsides that don't lead immediately to a goal would never be called. This is a more than fair compromise, you should never score from the benefit of being offside.
The officials aren't psychic.
 

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For me it's a bit pointless to debate offsides down to inches, as if it matters on the outcome of the situation if Son's shoulder, or anyone else for that matter, is a few inches on the wrong side. Not to mention that I'd love to know what the level of uncertainty actually is, I find it difficult to believe that the level of accuracy is high enough to be able to correctly judge situations like the one with Son.

Personally I'd prefer a rule change where there has to be air between the opponent or the majority of the body has to be on the wrong side.
 

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I'm gonna be a bit snarky here.

Basically it's crap** isn't it? Although I will say again, that I think player behaviour is better.

But the pro VARs are now asking us to wait for it to get better & it is good very occasionally, honest

**the list of crap

offside is a mess, we aren't sure the frame chosen is giving the right decision
they won't overrule anything - however obvious that it probably should be
refs make fewer decisions knowing it will get palmed off on to the VAR
very close offsides take an age to get decided
some people don't like the disruption to their celebrating
it's helping Liverpool too, :(

Where exactly are all the correct incredibly fair decisions we were promised with it being no more annoying than the refs are already.

I am finding the on-field refs less annoying (except Oliver, obviously) but that's only because the useless twats are sidestepping involvement in anything contentious now, they leave it for VAR to feck up.
 

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Just put a chip in the t-shirts, in the same location, for example in the PL crest and call the offside automatically on referee's watch.

This offside calling on millimetres is ridiculous when from a frame to another, there is a different result. All these fancy projections, why?

You just need one point of reference on the body. You still have to control the ball and get yourself in a scoring / passing position. The legs can't run without the body. If you go for precision, then you should take that out of human hands.
Hmm, players rarely do score with other body parts. Even if they did score with their head who cares, we need to simplify the rules. It is called football, so just rewrite the rules for offsides to apply only with regards to the placement of their feet. Put the chip in the shoes, problem solved down to the decimals.
 

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Not a terrible idea, in theory.

And more work for recently retired refs on the Stockley Park Chip Offsides Analysis Team (COAT) which they'll like, I'm sure.
 

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There's a possibility that Wijnaldum was offside before he barged onto Azpi and the referee gave a foul against him.
 

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Just put a chip in the t-shirts, in the same location, for example in the PL crest and call the offside automatically on referee's watch.

This offside calling on millimetres is ridiculous when from a frame to another, there is a different result. All these fancy projections, why?

You just need one point of reference on the body. You still have to control the ball and get yourself in a scoring / passing position. The legs can't run without the body. If you go for precision, then you should take that out of human hands.
I actually really like this idea.
 

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For me it's a bit pointless to debate offsides down to inches, as if it matters on the outcome of the situation if Son's shoulder, or anyone else for that matter, is a few inches on the wrong side. Not to mention that I'd love to know what the level of uncertainty actually is, I find it difficult to believe that the level of accuracy is high enough to be able to correctly judge situations like the one with Son.

Personally I'd prefer a rule change where there has to be air between the opponent or the majority of the body has to be on the wrong side.
 

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Oh and yeah, how they managed to review Noble's tackle on AWB and decide it's not a red card is miles beyond me
 

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Oh and yeah, how they managed to review Noble's tackle on AWB and decide it's not a red card is miles beyond me
Because they don't want to overrule a ref's decision. You might ask, well what is the fecking point of having VAR then? To which the anser is: so we can rule out 0.000001 mm offside goals of course! Glad they got their priorities right.
 

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I don't think VAR is to blame. According to the laws of the game VAR was right. The problem is the laws themself. I think they need to be changed. For me, there should be clear daylight between the attacker and defender to be offside. This way we would be saying "he was onside by a mm" not "he was offside by a mm". Think of it like hockey (yes, I'm Canadian). In hockey, the blue line determines offside. You can't enter before the puck. However, as long as any part of your body is still behind the blueline, you are onside. So players drag a toe to stay onside. If football took up this same ideal we would see goals like in the Tottenham game allowed because parts of the player were still onside...
I fully support both VAR and the rules. VAR was introduced to deal mainly with those marginal decisions which are difficult for the ref to spot. A player is either offside or he is not, and if he is, even by a mm, the goal she be disallowed . It's totally unfair that teams shd benefit or suffer from bad ref decisions. Other sports have moved forward and wholly embraced VAR whilst football has been dragging its feet and lagging behind.
 

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I fully support both VAR and the rules. VAR was introduced to deal mainly with those marginal decisions which are difficult for the ref to spot. A player is either offside or he is not, and if he is, even by a mm, the goal she be disallowed . It's totally unfair that teams shd benefit or suffer from bad ref decisions. Other sports have moved forward and wholly embraced VAR whilst football has been dragging its feet and lagging behind.
It wasn't. It was introduced to correct clear errors or serious missed incidents, not marginal decisions. A missed offside resulting in a goal is a serious missed incident of course, but if that marginal offside is measured using questionable techniques (just look at the picture a couple of posts higher), it's overshooting the mark by quite some distance. It's certainly bemusing how that is considered a VAR worthy missed incident while Mark Noble's lunge not resulting in a sending-off is not considered a clear error.
 

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If there were no VAR and the linesman had correctly flagged offside in the Chelsea game, everyone would be praising him for making a good call. In that sense VAR did its job. The annoyance stems from the delay and the fact that the players had already celebrated and lined up for kick-off again. So the question is what we value as more important - getting the decisions right or keeping the natural flow of the game so to speak. I tend towards the former.

I think there is also a correlation between how annoyed people are by VAR and how close the decision was. If Mount had been miles offside and the assistant missed it for some reason, surely everyone would be in favour of overturning it, no matter how much time has passed and how much Chelsea have celebrated in the meantime.
 

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I fully support both VAR and the rules. VAR was introduced to deal mainly with those marginal decisions which are difficult for the ref to spot. A player is either offside or he is not, and if he is, even by a mm, the goal she be disallowed . It's totally unfair that teams shd benefit or suffer from bad ref decisions. Other sports have moved forward and wholly embraced VAR whilst football has been dragging its feet and lagging behind.
It’s somewhat amusing that you, apparantly, fully support VAR and the rules, but you dont understand how its used
 

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Anyone seen these very tight mm offside decisions in other leagues using VAR?

I can't recall any similarly tight decisions from games I've watched.

Are they just not bothering for such marginal calls?
 

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I'm not 100% sold on VAR. I've been finding myself a bit reluctant to celebrate goals on occasion just in case they get ruled out and that worries me a bit because to me, that's a big part of what I love about the game. An idea I've been mulling over for a while is that referee should be explaining why they gave key decisions. Perhaps the day after a game if they re-watched the game and wrote a couple of sentences explaining why, for example, even on VAR Review, Noble wasn't sent off then we'd all know exactly what constitutes a red and what's a yellow. Sure, it would still be down to referees and VAR's interpretation in the heat of the moment but at least the next day when the 'heat of the moment' has settled it would be clear why they made the decision.
 

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http://hottechgadgetnews.com/var-how-many-cameras-are-used-for-turf-technology/

120fps is the figure I've generally seen quoted on twitter and reddit too, though why it's even that low I have no idea given hawkeye seem to use much higher frame rate cameras in other sports:

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/24233730/var-teething-troubles-take-heart-cricket-drs
https://www.harrodsport.com/advice-and-guides/hawkeye-technology-in-sport

Anyway, I just tried doing the maths on what margin of error you'd get from a 120fps camera and it melted my head so I'll let you work it out.
 

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http://hottechgadgetnews.com/var-how-many-cameras-are-used-for-turf-technology/

120fps is the figure I've generally seen quoted on twitter and reddit too, though why it's even that low I have no idea given hawkeye seem to use much higher frame rate cameras in other sports:

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/24233730/var-teething-troubles-take-heart-cricket-drs
https://www.harrodsport.com/advice-and-guides/hawkeye-technology-in-sport

Anyway, I just tried doing the maths on what margin of error you'd get from a 120fps camera and it melted my head so I'll let you work it out.
Thanks!
 

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Yes, being offside is illegal in the rules of the game. Do I need to teach you basic rules?

It can be called back to anything happening in that play. Once again, do I need to teach you the rules? Look this shit up before losing your shit about emotional energy.

I don't care when you celebrate.

People are so caught up in emotional stress that they think the rules should be thrown out because they celebrated. Mount was offside, I don't give a shit if you celebrated, he was offside. The rules don't give a shit if you celebrated either and nor should they. Don't want it to be called back? Don't go offside then.
Interesting as there aren’t actually rules in football ( pedantic I know) but they are laws. Irrespective being in an offside position doesn’t actually mean your offside.

Having said that Mount was indeed in an offside position and indeed offside at the point he played the ball however play continued. Liverpool were already set in their defensive shape meaning it would be impossible for them to re set. Alonso actually played the ball toward his own goal ironic really because not three weeks ago , Gallagher on Sky Sports said that once the ball was played backwards then a new phase of play started.Another claim made was that if the defence had an opportunity to clear then that again was a factor.

I doubt very much the asst ref would have been able to see the offside so in this instance it was unlikely he saw it indeed normally when the do believe there is an offside they would eventually raise the flag. He didn’t!

So for me the confusion wasn’t so much about the offside it’s more about about how far back a phase of play goes on for in truth the published guidelines are far too vague and as a consequence for me having been at SB yesterday annoyed because to date the PGMOs interpretation of how to VAR operates is certainly not offering up improvements
 
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Because the linesman are told to leave tight decisions to VAR so not to halt play with an incorrect decision. Basically all offsides that don't lead immediately to a goal would never be called. This is a more than fair compromise, you should never score from the benefit of being offside.
The officials aren't psychic.
Oh I see it now. Definitely agree with you, benefit of the doubt should always go to the attacker and the trigger happy flagmen must be extinguished.
 

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Because the linesman are told to leave tight decisions to VAR so not to halt play with an incorrect decision.
But they're not. They're told to wait for the play to end before making the decision, but they're still supposed to decide
 

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Bottom line with football in general is that it's absolutely hell bent on protecting referees. It's why if a referee admits they saw something and decided it wasn't a foul, even if it was a blatant red card, there'd be no retrospective action. It's why todays penalty wasn't given.

Referees have no accountability for their mistakes and the rules do everything they can to protect them.
 

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Ref was correct as was VAR, linesman deserves sacking for that, you could see De Gea stopped because of the flag. Something needs to be done about those decisions though because that was clear as day the linesman cost United a goal.
 

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Goal shouldnt count. Once the linesman raises flag, it shouldn't count because the players stop. He should have waited and then raise it once it goes in or out.
 

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EPL's version of VAR is the shittiest implementation of anything ever.
 

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Goal shouldnt count. Once the linesman raises flag, it shouldn't count because the players stop.
Surely you play to the whistle? The players shouldn't stop, braindead though the linesman was.
 

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Ref was correct as was VAR, linesman deserves sacking for that, you could see De Gea stopped because of the flag. Something needs to be done about those decisions though because that was clear as day the linesman cost United a goal.
The penalty?