- Jul 4, 2008
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From the original footage, the key thing for me was the way the direction of the ball’s travel altered quite substantially, which makes me think Serge made the clearance, and backs up Dean’s repeated ‘got the ball’ hand gestures before VAR intervened. What throws the obvious visual reference into confusion could well be the var frame rate, because watching the slow mo and angles I cannot for the life of me see contact, but the ball still moves away as if played, so it feels like the twelfth of a second or whatever it is where contact would have been made is missing from the frames...
But the key there has to be the clear and obvious mistake - for var to overrule an in play decision where the ref has seen it and made a call that the ball was played, we shouldn’t be forced to find a mm of offside or a microsecond of missing frame... it should be obvious, For me as a casual viewer it’s heart in the mouth every time this stuff goes to var because I don’t implicitly feel like I can trust it, and that’s the opposite of the intended effect.
But the key there has to be the clear and obvious mistake - for var to overrule an in play decision where the ref has seen it and made a call that the ball was played, we shouldn’t be forced to find a mm of offside or a microsecond of missing frame... it should be obvious, For me as a casual viewer it’s heart in the mouth every time this stuff goes to var because I don’t implicitly feel like I can trust it, and that’s the opposite of the intended effect.