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[Football] FA Cup semi finals







Deportivo Seagull

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Jul 22, 2003
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Precisely……yet they are making decisions based on the frames. It’s a joke.
Which is down to PGMOL and the refs rather than the technology. It should be used as it was designed and not how you think it should. As someone who spent all my working life in engineering, I get really hacked off when people use technology outside of its design parameters and then blame the technology when it doesn’t work as they expect.
 






Guinness Boy

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Jul 23, 2003
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Shooting Star

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Apr 29, 2011
2,798
Suffolk
I get angrier about it the more I think of it.
 


Bodian

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May 3, 2012
11,911
Cumbria
To be fair, Man City v Coventry would have been a crap one-sided final.
At least people can watch United get a sound beating in the final again.
But then, we all assumed we would have beaten Coventry if we'd got through - then we assumed Wolves would beat them. I don't think Coventry getting to the final would have been a fluke, they would have earned it. And would have given them as good a game as Man United.
 
















American Seagle

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Jun 14, 2022
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Serious questions need to be asked after that. The offside call was so bad it's hard to not think it's fixed. How you get the lines wrong like that with all the time and checks so often without something strange going on is...well itn makes you think.
 








American Seagle

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Jun 14, 2022
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The issue is not VAR in terms of technology. VAR has just highlighted how appalling bad English referees are. The standard of refereeing has been going down the shitter since before Covid. Blaming VAR merely takes the focus on the real problem which are the idiots trying to use it.
Exactly this. It highlights how bad and how biased the officiating is. VAR if used correctly should reduce bias and give good officials extra tools to make better decisions. Instead it is shining a light on how bad and biased they are.
I am amazed the media is not talking about this instead of just blaming var. Blaming var is missing the ugly truth.
 


trueblue

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Jul 5, 2003
10,444
Hove
It’s not CLEAR though is it, the tech isn’t that good. VAR is destroying top level football, it’s sucking the soul out of it.
If you think that what happened today is good for the game then you’re part of the problem.
I’m with you. Even if the tech was infallible, ruling out goals for a margin that small is not what offside is about. People moaning about the officials etc .. I’ve got no issue with anything they did. It’s missing the massive point that it’s ridiculous to ‘flag’ someone for being an inch ahead of an opponent who is in no position to stop the move amyway.
 


trueblue

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Jul 5, 2003
10,444
Hove
Serious questions need to be asked after that. The offside call was so bad it's hard to not think it's fixed. How you get the lines wrong like that with all the time and checks so often without something strange going on is...well itn makes you think.
Sorry but this conspiracy is a sideshow. The ref was decent. If it was bias, why did they give Coventry a marginal stoppage time penalty? The VAR could have overturned that if he was pro-United. If the line was wrong, it’s a mistake. I suspect it wasn’t anyway. They use a much finer line to make the decision (as we used to see), then the thicker ones are overlaid to illustrate the outcome. That may explain the furore about Wan-Bissaka’s toe.

The actual issue is that the decision was probably correct but that scenario is far too tight to be deemed offside.
 




BN41Albion

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Oct 1, 2017
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Sorry but this conspiracy is a sideshow. The ref was decent. If it was bias, why did they give Coventry a marginal stoppage time penalty? The VAR could have overturned that if he was pro-United. If the line was wrong, it’s a mistake. I suspect it wasn’t anyway. They use a much finer line to make the decision (as we used to see), then the thicker ones are overlaid to illustrate the outcome. That may explain the furore about Wan-Bissaka’s toe.

The actual issue is that the decision was probably correct but that scenario is far too tight to be deemed offside.

This for me. There really isn't a conspiracy against the little clubs. It's totally ruined the game though. I think the decision was probably correct as you say, but the whole thing is just so wrong for football - it's sucked the life out of top level football
 
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