I hope they do get back to you as I'd love to see their response, it's a perfectly valid question too but it seems like they think that just telling fans that it's totally accurate and 'offside is either on or off' is adequate as we're all too thick to understand basic maths/physics.Goes back to this question I plan to put to the FA and PL (not that I will actually get a response):
Celebrating happens in cricket, rugby league, American football, tennis etc.
doesn’t it?
I’m quite calm about VAR - it’ll iron out & we’ll all get used to it (or we better for our own sanity as it ain’t going anywhere)
I agree, and the offside law will have to be changed, there's already been one good suggestion on here, that if any part of the player is onside then it should be a goal, this would be the new "level", lets see if it "develops" for these very marginal calls, but if the technology they're using is that accurate it won't matter so long as its right, its early days in its use, and at least the PL are not using in the farcical way FIFA did in the summer.We appear to be talking about millimetres between offside/onside, surely that is just ludicrous.
The same millimeters that Stones stopped Liverpool from scoring Aguero scored against Burnley.
I think more will be in our favour this season than will go against us. Liverpool and Man United will be the two teams that will lose out due to the referees not being able to turn a blind eye to diving, dodgy pens etc.Totally different. Goal line technology is easier as the line never moves and the ball which is moving has sensors throughout. That is totally different from someone/a computer deciding the exact moment a player kicks a ball and at the same time the exact moment some part of a players body is millimetres past the defender.
Its an important step, so I agree one of the broadcasters need to do a documentary showing us the technology, if that happened then we might all feel better about it.One of the broadcasters really should do a show on how VAR works in that case, I'd be really interested in seeing how it's done and to see what tolerances are used. They obviously can't use the cameras for it so how are they measuring these things? I don't know anything about Hawkeye (is that the one used in cricket?) but that could be possible if it uses GPS or something, I don't know how they would use it to decide where Sterling's shoulder ends and his arm begins for the first disallowed goal though. I must admit to being slightly dubious about it just because it's Walton though!
Walton seemed to imply earlier that technology is being used to decide, which was shown to managers and captains this week.For TV viewers and match attendees you can't validate VAR offside decisions. There needs to be a split screen for VAR decisions. A box in the top left showing the passer and the rest of the screen the side view of the pitch. Then you can validate when the ball was played (when the passer touches the ball in the passing movement) and the offside view at the point where the ball was passed. On TV you can rewind it and replay to validate the decision.
Apparently not mate, even half a mm offside is enough to overrule a decision.I thought it was " clear and OBVIOUS" errors 1mm in the armpit isnt clear and obvious!!
I don't mind that as long as it is applied equally to everybody.Unless they introduce a margin of error for offside like in cricket if your 1mm offside your offside end off.
Goes back to this question I plan to put to the FA and PL (not that I will actually get a response):