Please don't get me started on the line-drawing. Without the lines drawn on there - and in 'old money', if you like - he is level, and onside. Why can't someone just eyeball it on the replay and if he's about level he's onside? We used to trust a linesman to eyeball it in real time so he/someone should be able to eyeball it on a slow motion replay. Drawing the lines is just jumping the shark, takes forever, and robs us of what used to be perfectly good goals.
I did wonder about the angle shown… I also wondered why the still that was released seems to show the Cov defender still in possession of the ball, also the Man U defender seems to be running towards the goal whilst the Cov striker seems stationary, so I wondered how it would look in the next frame once the pass was made…then I realised that the FA got the final they wanted and stopped wondering.
Well, that and who was the best at Financial Fair Play.
No, because they were level. That's what I'm saying, the concept of being level has been eroded completely. So now you have to be a few inches further from the goal line than the defender to be onside, which in my opinion is not how it should be.
I agree with you here. People talk about right and wrong decisions, but I doubt offside was ever designed to be reviewed down to a hair's breadth. It's just meant to prevent someone getting an advantage by being obviously nearer the goal than the defenders. A margin that can be eyeballed without drawing stupid lines on the screen.We're getting decisions that the offside rule was never designed to arrive at.
Meant to stop goal hanging and now we have analysis of toenails!!
Not seen anything like conclusive evidence that the goal was offside…
Of course it wasn’t, just like handball should never be looked at in slow motion, it always looks deliberate in slow-mo.
It worked really well in the World Cup but our inept weapons will find a way to not implement it properly
Has any changes to the way the game is refereed ever made any improvements? They all have good intentions but they all seem to make the game more complicated.You’re going to love the semi-automated system next season!
Premier League to use semi-automated offside in hope of speeding up VAR calls
Premier League clubs have unanimously agreed at a shareholders’ meeting to the introduction of semi-automated offside technologywww.theguardian.com
According to the Sky commentators it went to var and was cleared..so either Sky are lying or PGMOL are lying when they said it wasn’t checked
Let’s use Sunday’s 3 pens decisions, 2 subjective - Shut up Forest accept the decision.
1 Should of gone to VAR/Monitor, go on Forest fight the PL.
Unfortunately Forest believe all 3 were pens and it’s a fix.
So if the Ref and VAR agreed on the first 2, should Forest apologise?
The issue, imo, is the media, the Referees at the very top are professionals, but we have to accept some of “fouls” are subjective and therefore those decisions split the fans.
I was just putting the 3 options, hopefully all 3 decisions will be on Sky next Tuesday when Webb/Owen have their next programme.According to the Sky commentators it went to var and was cleared..so either Sky are lying or PGMOL are lying when they said it wasn’t checked
Absolutely, but we blame the Ref when they give a decision for or against our team.People were never meant to fall over if the wind changed....
There’s no measurement and never has been for Offside in the Laws of the Game though, maybe if the authorities did come up with an arbitary distance/gap it would be easier to call.
