Urraca
Full Back
I'm not a fan of VAR and I think I know why.
1l) On offsides, its pedantic. Even if they are level to the naked eye it goes down to fingernails being offside. This is exacerbated by a) the frame rate not being good enough and b) the wrong frame often being chosen (you can see the ball is already spinning off the foot meing the pass was played before the frame on occassions).
2) clear and obvious error. They are pedantic on offside but far too liberal on this. Way too often VAR doesn't intervene because they have set the bar for "clear and obvious" far too high.
3) the pedantry off offised and the laissez faire of clear and obvious exacerbates both. They are co-morbid. The anal application of offside make the non-intervention off clear and obvious seem more inconsistent and visa versa.
1l) On offsides, its pedantic. Even if they are level to the naked eye it goes down to fingernails being offside. This is exacerbated by a) the frame rate not being good enough and b) the wrong frame often being chosen (you can see the ball is already spinning off the foot meing the pass was played before the frame on occassions).
2) clear and obvious error. They are pedantic on offside but far too liberal on this. Way too often VAR doesn't intervene because they have set the bar for "clear and obvious" far too high.
3) the pedantry off offised and the laissez faire of clear and obvious exacerbates both. They are co-morbid. The anal application of offside make the non-intervention off clear and obvious seem more inconsistent and visa versa.
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