But that would surely mean 6 VAR checks per match. Teams would use the checks for the sake of using the checks (as happens in cricket). Not sure I've ever encountered 6 VAR interventions in any game.
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One of the biggest issues is that the crowd and the TV audience at home don't get to hear the discussion between the ref, the linos and the VAR crew. This secrecy allows for speculation of bias. Let's give the entire officiating team microphones and let's hear what's going on throughout the game.
Look at what gets done in sports where similar technology is used, and look at the procedures they follow when video replays are used to assist the red on making their decision. Rugby Union has got a great model IMHO, and I'd say field hockey have worked it out too. NFL and NBA have used it for ages and periodically make improvements.
Football's application of VAR to date is so disjointed and flawed at the moment that it's hard to conclude that it isn't all deliberate.
Look at what gets done in sports where similar technology is used, and look at the procedures they follow when video replays are used to assist the red on making their decision. Rugby Union has got a great model IMHO, and I'd say field hockey have worked it out too. NFL and NBA have used it for ages and periodically make improvements.
Football's application of VAR to date is so disjointed and flawed at the moment that it's hard to conclude that it isn't all deliberate.
We need this!
Sweet lord wtf is this dystopian hell sport
I thought football was pretty (im)perfect the way it was, why don't we just do that again instead?
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £80m
almost as if theyre trying to swell the numbers and complicate it further so as to 'earn' a few more quid...
a legit slip also
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
God we don’t. Put human error back into offsides and we can have human reactions to goals again.
SupaStake
Player Valuation: £1.5m
Good thing is they’re already mic’d up… just make it live
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
Because they literally didn't follow anyone's lead?
It works in cricket, tennis and NFL because it is challenge based so it is part strategy. It is hard to get mad at a review when you're in charge of it happening. Yes close calls can still be controversial but mostly it works.
Rugby is excruciatingly detailed. Maybe even too much so for football. But what makes it work is agree or disagree you know exactly what the referee was thinking.
Football decided to avoid all of this.
VAR isnt going anywhere, so we may as well use the best version.
Fansince1988
Player Valuation: £40m
Perhaps less then, then the teams would use the for important things only, just and idea ?
joey_macmo
Player Valuation: £35m
Has the ‘line overlapping so it’s onside’ been scrapped on this semi automatic system? It looks like that would be onside in the prem
Edit: Just checked and it has been scrapped, we are back to 1mm offsides.
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Lobster Johnson
Player Valuation: £35m
Not offside that. Football is about goals, nobody wants goals chalked off because somebody's knee is 2cm further forward than somebody elses.
Hopefully we start seeing some more anti-VAR sentiment expressed in grounds in the coming weeks. This thing needs crushing before the 'it's here to stay' argument takes root any more
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