A sensible interpretation of data and more transparency would help raging fans understand decisions and save referees a lot of grief
, which is broadly absent in cricket and rugby. This is one of the reasons that allows video technology in those sports to arrive at conclusions in an atmosphere of calm and that are met with agreement.on Saturday. Firstly, to the naked eye the ball appeared to have crossed the dead ball line before Joe Willock retrieved it.
It seems the VAR operators were unable to access the necessary camera angles to determine if the ball was out, or if Gordon was offside. They judged Joelinton’s action to be within the law.by the quality of the VAR operation. It cannot be beyond the capacity of the Premier League to determine if a ball is in or out. That is a technical issue solved by the deployment of an appropriate camera.
Rugby has issues too, as Wayne Barnes discovered during the World Cup final last week when the rules compelled him todeemed illegal. What helped Barnes is a culture that accepts unconditionally the authority of the referee and trusts a decision-making process that is broadcast in real time.
Football would benefit from stepping back from absolute measurements, where a player can be offside by virtue of an earlobe being the wrong side of a line and introduce a layer of interpretation which asks: in the mind of a right-thinking individual, was the illegal positioning of an earlobe a factor in the player assisting or scoring a goal? If not, the goal stands.
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