If they need to get out the magnifying glass for a big toe - Not Offside; benefit of doubt accrues to the Attacker*
I'm not really sure what a good answer is here. If you use replay you have to set the line somewhere and there will always be a close call on that line. If it's 250mm and the guy is 251mm offside it is still a 1mm decision right? So no one is happy.
They always did, but they were incompetent shockers, way below the abrogation of on field responsibility coupled with Stockly Park interference or when it seems to suit them on a whim - no Interference
Tbh, I never saw any replays until that evening as I was at the game, and even then it drew intakes of breath from the crowd, it looked there and then like he had 'done' him. Something for which he has form. The game is fast, much faster than it used to be, but so are the reactions of the players, he straight-legged him, with the speed of play now they still have enough time to bend the leg and lessen the impact.
For me it's more about the time taken. It's the idea of waiting 3/4 minutes while they work out if you're a centimetre off that annoys me, if they're able to just immediately rule it out like a flag going up then I don't really mind how they come to the decision.
Yeah, Hawkeye fast is what this automated offside needs to be.
That's if it works. It didn't for goaline technology. There's been 2 occasions of goalline technology failing at least so you would imagine that for offside it would be a lot more problematic
Goal line tech barely ever goes wrong, and makes massive news when it does.
You say it hardly ever goes wrong, but how many times is it used in a season or how many goals are so close that its required. Maybe 5 or 6 times in the Premier league a season where its genuinely required and the linesman hasn't the ability to spot it. I can't even remember Everton having to use it at all in the last 5 years but I'm sure there's an example.
See the article above. We are mentioned in the top 10 travesties no fewer than three times and this doesn't even include some of the more egregious ones like michael Keane landing on a Brighton players toe and conceding a penalty!
I'm all for the robot making the calls - I think what most hate about VAR is the lack of consistency in when and then how it gets applied. What really gets me is when the VAR official decides not to even have a look at something. That human element of getting to decide what gets looked at and what doesn't, needs to change in some way.
