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Striker
How can a linesman? It's the same argument. It just needs a bit of refinement.Sorry but that’s a load of crap. The point is that you DONT KNOW if someone is narrowly offside or onside. So you don’t actually know if these decisions are correct or not. The technology does not show you whether he’s off or onside. It shows you a still of a particular moment in time that is probably not the frame where the ball was kicked and is definitely not angled without calibration error. So you cannot tell whether the decision is correct or not within the bounds of the technology. Until they introduce some GPS tracking software or something this will remain the case. So your claims about less offsides does not stack as you have assumed that VAR is correct when indeed it cannot be proven to be correct nor incorrect, we simply do not know and will never know.
The only way to correctly get decisions is to add in a margin of error and use the on field decision for this, this margin could easily be calculated from the calibration certificates and things of the software and hardware used. Whether it’s several inches or feet or whatever.
At present it’s akin to setting your local speed camera to ticket at 31mph in a 30 zone, giving tickets to plenty of people who were actually driving 29mph due to the error on the camera and then claiming to have increased correct ticketing numbers. It’s an absolute pile of horseshit in its current form and the FAs claims about increasing correct decisions by x% are pure fabrication.
that fixes nothing. It just moves the interface of off/onside along a bit
how can VAR prove that he is a toenail offside? Have they got the right frame? Camera calibration? Software calibration?
that fixes nothing. It just moves the interface of off/onside along a bit
It fixes the argument of people complaining he's only a toenail offside.
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