sophocles, on 19 June 2019 - 10:06 PM, said:
Even with the law and VAR, that is arguable - I'm not 100% sure the keeper's foot left the line before the striker's foot connected with the ball, and even if it did, that fraction of a second action was undetectable by human eyesight. VAR will rob the game of every scrap of excitement and immediacy and spontaneity, and will eventually turn people away from football because they will get totally fed up with nor being able to believe what they are seeing with their own eyes, and not being able to trust their immediate emotional response to goals etc because they have to just sit and wait for technology to tell them how to react. VAR is complete and utter nonsense and must be scrapped immediately before fans lose interest in the game of football.
Fully agreed.
dim view, on 20 June 2019 - 07:17 AM, said:
Good point.
Without being overdramatic, this could end in tears with a lawsuit when the goalie honestly believes he/she did not break the rules but VAR argues different. Two people can have different perspectives of the same incident (Einstein).
But surely the biggest problem with this is that games will have different results depending on whether VAR is in use, so the fundamental and ancient commandment of all games being played under the same rules is broken. We will observe controversial incidents next season at the Proact and then on MOTD, which will be identical but which will have different outcomes.
Great points. Nice use of Einstein
Town_Fan, on 20 June 2019 - 09:41 AM, said:
The latest incident that has seen Scotland removed from the tournament early is a victory for feminism. It means that the Scottish women are equal with their male counterparts.
Brilliant!