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Vital Champions League
There is nothing wrong with the technology being used; the problem is the people who are using it.Why use technology and not make the outcome categoric - a millimetre (not sure if the lines can run to that degree, but you get the point) offside is offside - and rulings defined by the tech.
However, VAR are hamstrung by the tech itself.
For example, why are the cameras not UHD at the very minimum, given i saw content via tradeshows 15 years ago of 8K outputs.
Why do they use the camera speed governed for broadcast, i.e. 25 frames-per-second
Surely High Framerate is necessary for such minusule calls.
The money is there to implement a more forensic system, but the tech VAR have available is League One standard at best.
Subjective VAR would be even more of a catastrophe, IMO...might as well sack it all off, and allow the definitive and irrefutable call to be made by the referee and 2 linos.
Personally, i'd get rid of VAR entirely.
Wonder what the NFFC Twitter mod would complain of, if a similar thing happened to the penalty calls vs Everton without VAR...lol
As for a more forensic system, why?
What is wrong with they current system?
If the idiots who changed the off side rule went back to the "level" means on side, and made it so you do not need a slide rule to check, there would be no issue, even a simple minded referee would be able to figure out the correct decision to make.
Stop fucking around with things that did not need changing and all of the problems go away.
On top of that, they could make the whole process fully transparent, with a live audio feed covering the decision making process, and, at the same time, putting the responsibility on someone with a name and a face, not a semi anonymous group.
The PL know full well that this will blow over and no one will have the balls to challenge how things are; that suits them and it suits the top 6.
As for the Twitter reaction; the more I think about it, the more that needed saying - complaining to, and ultimately getting fobbed off, by the powers that be just does not work.
What you have now is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction, amongst what seems like a majority of supporters, and then you have the self appointed guardians of the game, like Neville and Carragher, controlling the narrative and trying to drown out the discontent.
Football democracy in action, a few million pissed off supporters being lectured to by two c * n t s in a TV studio.
Roll on the new Regulator.