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Morning all.
It’s been quite the weekend and yesterday we almost had the joy of one of the funniest results of all time. Manchester United, 3-0 up on Coventry in the 71st minute of the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, let that lead slip, conceding three goals to send the game into extra-time.
Then, right at the death, it looked as if Coventry had won it, only for the goal to be disallowed for an offside in the build-up. I mean, they said it was offside, and they drew the lines and everything, but this is the least convincing offside I’ve ever seen.
I think we’ve all had our issues with VAR, but moments like this should unite every true football fan in opposition to it. Campaigns should be launched. The public should march en masse to PGMOL headquarters to demand it be scrapped, and for this organisation be disbanded at once. Not simply disbanded, everyone who works for it should be sent to a prison island for the rest of their days.
This would have been one of the best things that ever happened in football. The world is a bleak and difficult place at the best of times, why would they deprive us of this in the name of so-called accuracy? None of us care about getting it right, we just wanted to Man Utd get beaten in hilarious fashion. Yes, if it were our teams on the receiving end of that generous decision we’d sit here this morning talking about how great this technology is, but it wasn’t, so we’re not. That’s how it works.
In all seriousness though, am I alone in thinking that when they’re making a marginal decision like this, the fact they appear to be using a camera phone from 2005 might actually not be the best idea? We live in a world where the broadcasters go on and on about their HD and Ultra-HD, and where some countries have 8k cameras for their coverage, but when it comes to VAR decisions it’s like the graphics on a ZX Spectrum (look it up, kids). It’s not as if the money isn’t there, so why is it like this?
Anyway, I look forward to…
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Publish date : 2024-04-22 06:47:20
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