It is taking away all the good points of playing football and making it exciting. Beating the offside trap, challenges that were put in to stop the flow of the game.
Surely good forwards play in getting just in front of the back line, it’s all too sanitised. I bet our management team are not for it.
The Watford/Swansea game last night had 20 minutes added time because the electronic communication between match officials broke down. Ludicrous.
It’s awful, I don’t bother watching the Premiership unless it’s United. Lets hope the far more exciting Championship doesn’t fall into the trap.
Why would you watch United??? Do you suffer from insomnia?
Looking at it from a scientific point of view, the system is being incorrectly used to judge offside decisions as if it has a higher precision than it actually offers.
The frame rate used in VAR is 50fps, ie. each frame covers 0.02s. Let us assume the kicking foot is in contact with the ball for 0.01s. This is probably slightly higher than is the actual case, but will do as a ball park figure. That leaves the possibility of the video frame being used showing the position of players 0.01s after the ball has been played.
Now that may seem a very short amount of time, but in that period, assuming the defender is still and the attacking player is sprinting at 8m/s, the forward will have travelled 8cm. If the defender is moving upfield the relative distance between them would be greater. Goals are being wrongly chalked off for alleged offside distances of less than that. And the above assumes that the system uses the closest frame to when the ball is played, which I am certain does not always happen.
In my opinion there should be a realistic margin of error of say 15cm where the attacking side get the benefit of the doubt.
VAR should in theory be great for correcting ‘howlers’, and for inevitable human error, but it currently falls down badly in two ways: incorrect assumption of its precision as explained above, and the fact that we still get utterly inexplicable decisions made by those viewing the footage. In summary, a potentially excellent tool that unfortunately is currently being misused and abused.