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Bottom line is if Var is getting used them have to be given offside. We had years off folk twisting like fuck when something was not ruled out cos a linesman missed someone who was inches offside. Now the technology is in place to get these decisions right and folk are still twisting. The powers that be just cant win imo
SAFCftm1986 said:
Seems to be favouring the bigger sides on the whole. Just saying
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Any evidence to back this claim up?
 
redandwhiterob said:
Bottom line is if Var is getting used them have to be given offside. We had years off folk twisting like fuck when something was not ruled out cos a linesman missed someone who was inches offside. Now the technology is in place to get these decisions right and folk are still twisting. The powers that be just cant win imo


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Quite a good breakdown. Fairly even but after this weekend both Spurs and now Liverpool have benefitted from some borderline offside decisions. As I said, just feels that way when I’m watching the games - May be because I’m only watching the better teams’ games mind
 
AC Mack said:
And then people just have exactly the same arguments they're having now.
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Souness made a good point saying that due to all the investment in it VAR will be staying.

He also said we should change the rule so that if any part of the body is onside then it's on rather than off.
 
Vicham said:
Except that the benefit of the doubt has been given to the striker. And the margin of error regarding which frame to use has been close to eliminated.
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It hasn't really though*, because if there is doubt whether it is a cm less than the threshold, then it's still given as offside. You'll end up with the same arguments. How has the frame issue been eliminated?

*it has in theory, I'll give you that. Bit it's not how people will view it.
 
Arm pits being offside is ridiculous. It may be the ‘official’ rule but like someone has said earlier, next season it should be the players feet that judge whether it’s offside or not.
 
The authorities are now managing to reduce the actual game to a business (I mean the playing side of it, not the whole professional football package, which has always been a business).

Millimetres should matter in business – in engineering. In design. In construction. But not bloody football. It’s the purest of games, unlike cricket or rugby or NFL (sports I also enjoy) which have a multitude of rules and natural ‘down times’ between plays and thus are more suited to technology like this.

There’s a beauty and an unpredictability about it because it’s a game devised by humans. Played by humans. Codified by humans. Watched and loved by humans. And, until now, officiated by humans.

If you don’t see that it’s ripping the heart and the passion from the game, of f**king over the people who matter the most – the match-going rather than armchair fan in particular – than you can blame yourself when we are watching matches in 30 years time taking place in stadiums with piped noise and avatars rather than fans.

I fail to see a single redeeming quality in it. The only saving grace is that we are unlikely to encounter it in one of our plays any time soon.
 
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