Shit - sorry I didn't even notice a match thread.
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Shit - sorry I didn't even notice a match thread.
Yeah I still don’t understand why he was offside the day after. His knee was offside, but after the “knock down” (which was really a goalie coming out and smashing his team mate) and he didn’t touch the ball or get involved in the play. I’m not even sure the ball went forward after the “knock down”.
Everybody who touched the ball in that move was well onside when the ball was played. Proper dodgy unless we now say that anyone within a couple of yards of the ball who has a knee offside will be called in this tournament.
There's got to be more information regarding VAR decisions that we saw yesterday because it's going to become a bigger and bigger issue as the tournament goes on if decisions are made on the sort of sketchy info shown to people in the ground or watching the game - the so called justification of the decision yesterday showed nothing to prove conclusively that it wasn't a goal. I'd do away with VAR myself, but while what we get in the Premier League is frustrating because it takes so long and the humans using the technology sometimes interpret it wrongly, at least we get the full picture - yesterday was like a cheap, early version of something which was not fully ready for use yet.
Totally agreed Bob… seems what we got yesterday was the technology without any context, even if it was offside by the rules of the game (which I’ve seen no evidence of) that’s never been offside in any game I’ve ever watched up until last night. That is the inevitable end game to the “must get it right at all costs” direction that some seem to want us to get to.
Many sports having this issue tbf, the NHL is becoming a joke with coaches taking minutes to watch and challenge offside which then take 5-10 minutes to review as well. The game that seems to do it best is still Rugby, as it’s an open communication and it’s still down to the interpretation of the referee on the field.