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That's a shambles, his front knee is marginally offside but I thought the VAR only overruled stuff if it is clear and obvious?
The FA CUP Fifth Round ** Spoilers ** [16th - 19th February 2018] + Replays
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VAR's a joke but this isn't the case for offsides. Offsides are a matter of fact so if they think it's off, marginal or not, then it's off. It's only decisions on pens or red cards that have to be obvious errors.
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Those lines don’t even follow the angle of the pitch! This is pathetic stuff from the officials. I think they’re trying to deliberately sabotage VAR myself.
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MS paint is my guess.I'd love to know how those lines were generated
They're making it up as they go along so it's no different to referees really, it just takes about 2mins longer to get a subjective decision based on TV footage rather than what the referee sees. The commentator said earlier that VAR isn't used for subjective decisions but nearly every refereeing decision in football is subjective. Even Mata's disallowed goal is dividing opinion, by the letter of the rules it was offside but anyone looking at their positions on the pitch at the time can see it's rubbish. IMO it should be 90%+ of someones body needs to be onside but even calculating that is subjective.
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Ah fair enough. It's probably the correct decision because based on what BT showed his knee is a tiny bit offside, but the process used to get to it was very strange.
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The Smalling one wasn't a penalty, it was ball to hand.
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Next seasons official VAR sponsor should be Crayola.
His knee is offside, it’s the correct call.
This is the BT line with the pundits saying he’s onside.
https://i.imgur.com/EfR8ZzI.png
Zoom in, his knee is over the line, and he can legally score with a knee
This is the BT line with the pundits saying he’s onside.
https://i.imgur.com/EfR8ZzI.png
Zoom in, his knee is over the line, and he can legally score with a knee
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It can’t be hard to generate accurate parallel lines on a pitch. They do it easily enough on NFL with the 10 yard line.
I agree now in that he is offside. An inch of a knee though is not something that you would normally see in real time (or that we are used to, this is all new) and there was no advantage that anyone could see - the Huddersfield players themselves didn't question the goal.
But by the letter of the law. He was off.