[Football] If Villa stay up by one point

[Herr Tubthumper]

Different tho, isn't it? This is what some people aren't getting. The Sheff Utd goal wasn't a mistake by the officials (on the pitch or manning the VAR). It wasn't human error - it was because the technology failed.

So there should have been some recourse. As it was, VAR and the ref were unable to overrule the decision because the numpties that run that game hadn't envisaged a situation when Hawkeye might not work. Still think Villa should have let Sheff Utd score.

This is from the Premier League website

“Goal Decision System is used at all Premier League matches. It is supplied by Hawk-Eye, the world’s leading provider of vision processing instruments to sport. The system aids referees with close calls, in cases where there may be some doubt if the whole ball has crossed the goal line.”

https://www.premierleague.com/news/102386

This implies Hawkeye isn’t definitive and only there to help, so the ref can make a call whether it’s a goal or not.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Yawn. As has been said many times in this thread - it's different. It was a TECHNICAL error, not a human error. Why can't people see the difference? The technology failed, nothing to do with ref cock ups.

Don't know why you're making the distinction, against Villa Sheffield put the ball in the net but it was incorrectly ruled out, against Palace Villa put the ball in the net but it was incorrectly ruled out. No material difference and as far as Villa are concerned these cancel out and they don't have anything to apologise for in this case.