World Cup VAR

Makes perfect sense. One of the arguments against VAR was that tight offside calls would mean interrupting play, now they won't.
 
In theory it should be good but you just know it'll be a fucking shambles with 50% of everyone involved not knowing what the fuck to do. Personally, I can't wait.
 
How tight is 'tight'?
No daylight I presume. I see this as a positive development as the attacker was always supposed to get the benefit of the doubt with offside calls (one of the criticisms of the offside law was that it overly favoured defensive play) and that has never been the case, too many linesman flag to be safe as soon as they're unsure. Now that we have the technology to check offside on a final ball for a goal, we can have a more free flowing game by relaxing the offside rule.
 
In theory it should be good but you just know it'll be a fucking shambles with 50% of everyone involved not knowing what the fuck to do. Personally, I can't wait.

Nor can I.

I think it’s a great idea that the game will be allowed to flow.

If a side should score a goal, which is subsequently deemed to be offside by VAR, it’s much easier (and much less controversial) to award a free-kick than to disallow a perfectly good goal.
 
Apparently, the VAR refs and assistants are all required to wear full kit ffs...
 
They’ve also had a two week intensive camp going through it all over and over again.

I’m hoping it’s a resounding success and that the PL will look like the dinosaurs they are next season for not embracing technology. It’s no surprise that we were the only club in the top six that voted for VAR implementation.
 
I'm not knocking it, I just want to understand how it works in practice. Will they only review the offside if a goal is scored? Or would they check it if the attack ends in a corner as well?
 
They’ve also had a two week intensive camp going through it all over and over again.

I’m hoping it’s a resounding success and that the PL will look like the dinosaurs they are next season for not embracing technology. It’s no surprise that we were the only club in the top six that voted for VAR implementation.

Why should they embrace technology? They have a perfectly, in fact incredibly, successful 'product' already.
 
I'm not knocking it, I just want to understand how it works in practice. Will they only review the offside if a goal is scored? Or would they check it if the attack ends in a corner as well?
Good point, I presume they will check any tight calls and inform the officials accordingly

The one thing that bothers me about the tight offside call, What will happen if a liner flags a tight offside instead of letting it go, basically flagging and stopping the game VAR is no use then, as if I’m not mistaken it is still the liners call to raise his flag or not, I can just see it Sterling breaks tight call 1 on 1 with the German keeper and the flag goes up

Or am I being paranoid thinking that FIFA could influence a game this way
 
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