VAR

[roperclaret]

The rule is a load of ********. His feet were well onside, he scored with his foot. It’s called football, if we have to measure on body parts, it should be the feet

[bumba]

If you look at the green line, Rodriguez’ head is over the line, Infact the line goes through half of Jays head. He was offside, the green line showed it.

Edit: someone beat me to it with the image

Yeh I'd not seen that still when I'd posted,he is offside.
Still think VAR missed a penalty at the end though on Berge, either a shirt pull or a handball

[Masham Ale]

They could probably even use the sensor in the ball to detect when it is kicked

[Pickles]

VAR shouldn't be the focus. We can't control VAR. We can control how poorly we've played.

[NewClaret]

The rule is a load of ********. His feet were well onside, he scored with his foot. It’s called football, if we have to measure on body parts, it should be the feet

I do like the idea of a rule where only the body part used to score the goal is considered in making the offside decision! But sometimes that will be the head to has to be considered in my opinion.

[Stayingup]

Just watching the rugby. TMO has denied the All Black's a brilliant try for a knock on the referee missed. A rugby equivalent VAR moment.

[Funkydrummer]

Sad day for me today In the realisation that my love for football has gone. VAR plays a massive part in that, but I knew that would be the case the moment last season ended. Right decision wrong decision I don’t particularly care, the fact it takes so long to make decisions is destroying everything that football used to be about. Add to that the money involved in the game now and other bonkers stuff like games on Xmas eve has made me lose my love for it. Results don’t help of course but Iv seen us be much worse at much worse levels of football but it was always enjoyable. Not any more unfortunately.

Exactly my take on things, sad to say, I remain to be convinced
to be part of the charade that was once the beautiful game.

With a heavy heart, I have to say that I'm struggling.

[123EasyasBFC]

VAR got the right decision but how an earth they didn’t manage to draw the line properly first time never mind take 4 minutes to then draw the line is embarrassing for the most expensive league in the world

[Sproggy]

Surely they take a shot of the instant the ball is kicked and the instant 1/100th of a second later (approx) when the kick finishes and use both as the guide. Don't they?

Oh no, I see it now - they haven't got a shot of the exact instant so they take one or other either side and have a bit of a guess. The wonders of technology.

I’m surprised this doesn’t come up more. All this titting about with lines looking for offsides in centimetres is nonsensical when they don’t have a frame rate that can capture when the ball is played.


It needs an “umpires call’ system. Draw two lines wide enough to represent how far each player can move in 1/10 of a second. If there’s any overlap stay with the on field decision.

[groove]

If it takes 5 minutes to decide if he was level, he must've been level.

[MT03ALG]

VAR Discussion by the 'experts':
Minute 1: the line is green, no way can that be correct, it would lead to an actual goal
Minute 2: the line is now red but we have to take our time to make sure we receive no complaints
Minute 3: the line is green again, we must try harder
Minute 4: the line is red again, can we disallow the goal...
Minute 5: the line is a line irrelevant of which colour, it disallows a Burnley goal, our aim from the start, let's just get on with it
Minute 6: our mission is complete, we have disallowed another Burnley goal. Up the VAR !
Last minute non VAR intervention: no way we are going to waste any more time on that having already spent 6 minutes ensuring that Burnley lose the match...

[FCBurnley]

Great line by VK. VAR is like going to the Casino !!!

[arise_sir_charge]

Apparently Talk Sport have a transcript of the offside call that they have read out this morning and amidst it all Coote asks the ref “how’s the wife”.

It’s an utter shambles.

[claretspice]

The offside looks off - just - to me.

The handball looks a handball to me and in the current climate I think Kompany is right to be bemused that it wasn't analysed more carefully. Had it been I think its more likely than not a penalty for all the reasons MOTD went through.

[StayingDown4Ever]

I think VAR did get it right yesterday - even though it took forever.

It got it wrong the week before though when it ruled out Brentford’s goal early on.