[Football] Offside and VAR

[Audax]

absolutly no. they agonise over a decision with VAR no way quick enough. they'll er on one side or other, constantly stop play bring it back, then decide it wasnt offside. how to restart?

its really simple, flag if offside, not flag if offside and a goal is scored and needs to go to VAR. since they dont know the future (bad enough handling the present), they should always flag if they think its offside.

and chalk this one up to a poor decision. caused by expectation of VAR, which we need to stop.

Think you've misunderstood what I was suggesting. Especially once the new hawkeye offside tool comes in.

 

[dsr-burnley]

absolutly no. they agonise over a decision with VAR no way quick enough. they'll er on one side or other, constantly stop play bring it back, then decide it wasnt offside. how to restart?

its really simple, flag if offside, not flag if offside and a goal is scored and needs to go to VAR. since they dont know the future (bad enough handling the present), they should always flag if they think its offside.

and chalk this one up to a poor decision. caused by expectation of VAR, which we need to stop.

The problem with this is that under the old rules, they had a fair chance of being right because the attacker could be in front or behind or level. Under the new rules the attacker can't be level so the linesman has to make a genuine effort to assess whether one man's toe is in front of the relevant part of the other man's shoulder. It literally can't be done by human eye - the really close ones, the linesman is bound to be wrong half the time.