Lee Mason - VAR

[mackem1989]

VAR basic will be coming to the Championship soon. There won't be extra cameras but they will review footage and in this case yesterday probably would have seen the pull foul before the penna foul and therefore we'd have got a free kick!

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The EFL is still discussing the practicalities of introducing a "VAR-light" system but hopes to introduce the low-cost alternative for the start of next season.

Compared to what's used in the Premier League, the EFL technology would incorporate fewer cameras, and therefore be cheaper.

It would not include cameras to assess offside decisions, for example, but would allow referees to review contentious incidents.

This is a great point rarely raised as it's too easy to be an armchair ref. As for the Rashford offside, look HERE to see how it's not as close or strange as you think when you consider how it all works.

I think the angle may make it look offside would love a straight across view and not a broadcast one (but how much money can we throw at it eh) would need 4500 cameras.

I also feel my own personal opinion if it’s as close as that the linesman flagged as it wasn’t clear and obvious it was on then should go with officials decision like they do in cricket that would cause an uproar

 

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I think the angle may make it look offside would love a straight across view and not a broadcast one (but how much money can we throw at it eh) would need 4500 cameras.

I also feel my own personal opinion if it’s as close as that the linesman flagged as it wasn’t clear and obvious it was on then should go with officials decision like they do in cricket that would cause an uproar

The system is calibrated for every camera angle and they just pick a point and it can then work out the lines quite easily. The same thing happens with the goal line tech but the freeze it and spin the view around with a computer generated image.

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This is why the new 3D semi-automated one spins the camera view around in the same way so the viewer can get a better perspective and chances are that will be in the PL next season.

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