Yankee_Jack
Key Player
There are two key events that revolve around VAR in this match.
First, the offside decision. City player was ruled offside because his shoulder was "offside". The rule ... standing offside ... says nothing about a player’s shoulder, elbow, finger, nose, hair, arse, dick, or any other part of the body. Standing implies where the feet are planted. If the player is standing offside, then it has to be driven by where his feet are planted not where some arbitrary part of his body happens to hang with respect to some line drawn by a computer graphic generator. Please let's have some common sense on the offside rule and not turn it into utter nonsense driven by technology.
Second, penalty encroachment. Finally, the ref was forced to enforce the rule that has been in existence for decades. There is a reason that there is a semi-circle drawn outside the penalty box, which is in combination with the rest of the box prevents players of both sides from encroaching within 10 yards of the penalty spot BEFORE the ball is kicked. All players have to remain outside this boundary (arc + box), except for the keeper and penalty taker, until the ball is kicked. Easy to follow. Used to be called. Refs and linesmen got lazy.
Your thoughts?
First, the offside decision. City player was ruled offside because his shoulder was "offside". The rule ... standing offside ... says nothing about a player’s shoulder, elbow, finger, nose, hair, arse, dick, or any other part of the body. Standing implies where the feet are planted. If the player is standing offside, then it has to be driven by where his feet are planted not where some arbitrary part of his body happens to hang with respect to some line drawn by a computer graphic generator. Please let's have some common sense on the offside rule and not turn it into utter nonsense driven by technology.
Second, penalty encroachment. Finally, the ref was forced to enforce the rule that has been in existence for decades. There is a reason that there is a semi-circle drawn outside the penalty box, which is in combination with the rest of the box prevents players of both sides from encroaching within 10 yards of the penalty spot BEFORE the ball is kicked. All players have to remain outside this boundary (arc + box), except for the keeper and penalty taker, until the ball is kicked. Easy to follow. Used to be called. Refs and linesmen got lazy.
Your thoughts?
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