Post Match: Brighton v Liverpool (EPL 28/11/20 12.30pm)

Look at the example cited above, used in the Dutch league. That is one way to go forward. It’s not hypothetical, but already in use.

Then there is the example of how it is used in rugby. Easily implementable in football too as @rab has shown above. That is, if you aren’t an uncultured and narrow-minded FA / PL / ref association rep with a head as thick as a wooden block.

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Ok, probably been mentioned here already, but here goes…

I don’t buy the too many games excuse IF both games we played ultra shit for the one, and then shit for the second. I would buy it if were were ultra shit and then at least average at worst.

All the VAR decisions were technically correct. I think the issue with the penalty was, contact felt, take two normal steps and fall down. Nothing like Mo’s penalty a few weeks back, where Mo went down immediately.

I really don’t understand what Taki gives to this team other than taking up a name on the team sheet. Just a complete waste at this stage (1 year?), so much so that I am beginning to feel that we got fleeced for ~£8m? I hear people that compare him to Naby, well I disagree as per the usefulness of each player when fit. The issue with Naby is 100% fitness.

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You would have to link these things to racism or such, in order to get them to actually act at a speed faster than 0, which is coincidentally their version of the speed of light.

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No I’m not. How are the overlapping lines measured? Once you get to the point that one line goes past the other, you’re back to mm. This really is quite simple. I can’t think of a better way of doing this and I did scientific precision measurement for 15 years.

So far Taki has brought nothing to the team, apart from running around a lot, what does he contribute? Because he’s got the build of a wet paper bag, he gets swatted aside by opposition players, like an annoying fly. I’m convinced he was signed to improve shirt sales in the Far East.

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So you’re in the camp of go back to relying on the naked eye If VAR can’t adjust for the Higgs Boson?

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Because everyone in the Far East just loves the Japanese.

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Ok, Japan then!

I’ll deal with the Higgs field another day, suffice to say, electrons behave differently at different energy states…

My position on VAR is it is useful but being deployed to the detriment of the game:

  • Greater control is required for when it can intervene

  • A tolerance has to be introduced for measured results

  • Any decision cannot be outside the spirit or the rules or game

  • Such decision should be wholly at the discretion of the match referee

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Its has to be a tolerance level that is discernible to the naked eye, else the player has no means of understanding whether they are within the rules in game; and/or any tolerance, that discounts eyelashes/toenails/ponytails from unfair advantage, should be useful.

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Tight or blurred? :smiley:

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That is an excellent point.

Unless Mo had the capacity to know he was 3mm off, it should not be possible to penalise him as such.

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What if that’s 30mm or 300mm? Where do you draw the line? Because however you do it, a line must be drawn. Say you give 2 metres, that then gets measured .

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Don’t you require observations from two different locations to determine an object’s distance and position (relative to the observer) by triangulation? :thinking:

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Then perhaps they should at least let the team that played on Tuesday have the 1230 slot, surely that makes sense. I dont think Klopp cares about having the 1230 slot, more that its after a wednesday game.

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Its been said before but its so easy to stop the arguments. Go by the foot only, draw a line touching the defenders foot. If you can see ANY of Mos boot in front of the line (and you can zoom in quite well there) then he’s offside. If not then he’s within the thickness of the line so onside (giving the attacker the line thickness advantage). No more arguments apart from the time the ball left the passers foot. Of course the line would have to be set or Utd would get a 12 inch line where we’d get the 2mm one but other than that it’s consistent.

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Which is true. Ignore my point. From a static point (in line with the incident) (you’d need a LOT of cameras) you can accurately measure an offside.

If we’d have won thanks to their offside goal being disallowed, this wouldn’t be a debate.

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Nonsense its been brewing for months and was in the post.

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Might be a silly question OR not.!!!
Would the sport be any worse if the off-side rule was removed from the game…???

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I’d say it would be a different sport then. Probably not one I’d enjoy watching or playing personally, but to each their own

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