casualdeyna
Well-Known Member
Thought about this for most of the season, but the only way VAR works for football is if it is instant, or within a few seconds, otherwise it will always taint the game.
Scoring a goal is for me the best element of football, sure there are so many other elements to it but scoring a goal is THE moment football stands out from other sports. You go mad, hug people you don't know, even well up in circumstances. VAR ruins this, and any delay will result in ruining it imho. In cricket there can be 40 wickets, in rugby several tries, but in football scoring just one goal can change the whole game.
So we either go back to how it was, which I doubt will happen, or we have to use more technology to get it instant, or as near as. If a goal is ruled out by VAR immediately, like with an offside flag prior to VAR, at least we get to know immediately if we can celebrate goals again, exactly how goal line technology works.
What that means or how we achieve that isn't easy, I think we would have to digitise the game on to computer, using cameras or GPS, and allow the computer to make instant decision, like with goal line technology.
This throws up questions about how a CPU could differentiate between handball being deliberate or not, or offside interfering or not, so maybe we have to make the rules more simple. Go back to the old offside where you are just offside or not, and any handball being a free-kick.
I don't particularly like these rule changes, I'm just thinking of a way we can get back to celebrating goals again. If we don't we tarnish the best part of the game. There must be technology that exists that can give us an instant decision, even if we have to adapt some rules.
That's my two-pennyworth anyway. Get rid of it until technology catches up, or introduce more technology and tinker with some rules. Either way we have to get back to the point where you can go mental and start hugging strangers again!
Scoring a goal is for me the best element of football, sure there are so many other elements to it but scoring a goal is THE moment football stands out from other sports. You go mad, hug people you don't know, even well up in circumstances. VAR ruins this, and any delay will result in ruining it imho. In cricket there can be 40 wickets, in rugby several tries, but in football scoring just one goal can change the whole game.
So we either go back to how it was, which I doubt will happen, or we have to use more technology to get it instant, or as near as. If a goal is ruled out by VAR immediately, like with an offside flag prior to VAR, at least we get to know immediately if we can celebrate goals again, exactly how goal line technology works.
What that means or how we achieve that isn't easy, I think we would have to digitise the game on to computer, using cameras or GPS, and allow the computer to make instant decision, like with goal line technology.
This throws up questions about how a CPU could differentiate between handball being deliberate or not, or offside interfering or not, so maybe we have to make the rules more simple. Go back to the old offside where you are just offside or not, and any handball being a free-kick.
I don't particularly like these rule changes, I'm just thinking of a way we can get back to celebrating goals again. If we don't we tarnish the best part of the game. There must be technology that exists that can give us an instant decision, even if we have to adapt some rules.
That's my two-pennyworth anyway. Get rid of it until technology catches up, or introduce more technology and tinker with some rules. Either way we have to get back to the point where you can go mental and start hugging strangers again!