FA Cup Semi Final | Coventry City v United

[Len Rum]

It wouldn’t clear anything up. You’re just moving the issue further up the field. Would still be as many marginal calls as there are now.

But it would benefit the attacker and lead to more goals.
And chalking off a goal for a marginal call if all of the player was beyond the last defender would seem 'fairer'.
I believe it has been trialled somewhere under the initiative of Arsene Wenger but I read that it was concluded that teams got more defensive and so I'm not sure if it still being considered.

 

[Bluearmy]

I genuinely thought it was just my eyes.

So not only could they have chosen the wrong frame to select for determining offside and the frames themselves could have not actually captured the real moment the ball was released, but it looks like the line for the reference defender was not even at the extremity of the playable surface of their body closest to their own goal.

This system is riddled with bent officials….

**fixed**

 

[eastmanc]

Bollocks, off side ffs. That is not clear and obvious, not even clear from the lines drawn.
If it was given no one bats an eye lid!

Off side if VAR wants it to be.

Handballs and off side calls after a goal scored are completely different calls.

They are Jammy as Fuck, scraping results every season. I know they are shit and a bottom half side yet fudge top 6 every year with dubious officiating every fucking week.

They are jammy as fuck but it was offside.

 

[Bluearmy]

If that’s the picture they’ve used for VAR, how do they give that as offside?

Exactly

 

[Stoned Rose]

What does your mate @Pigeonho think ?

Same as @franksinatra

 

[ysmsa]

Go on any other forum and they the same about us. We pay officials, have PGMOL on our payroll etc etc. That’s fans crappy views.

This though, it was offside. And the point still stands, that the cov pen in the dying minutes of a huge semi final could have been dismissed if they wanted United to go through. The paranoia is rife and, in the main, wrong

It's not paranoia though.

We as Blues watch our games and scrutinies everything, we have to work like Fuck to win. No handouts for us.

The Coventry penalty ( I haven't seen it yet as only watched the last bit of the match) at best gave them the opportunity to equalise, not easy scoring a Pen under those circumstances.

Rags would still have been favourites to win in ET.

The Coventry disallowed goal stopped Rags from being knocked out!

Huge difference!

Rags it is, fuck 'em.

 

[Bluearmy]

They are jammy as fuck but it was offside.

It was given offside… Amazing what decision can be reached when the technology is not used correctly….

 

[Sky Blue]

Same as @franksinatra

pigeonho mate. 100%. Usual contrary bollocks.

 

[ysmsa]

They are jammy as fuck but it was offside.

If only that chance before went in off the bar, or the chance before that wasn't put wide.

No doubt the VAR wiggly toothpaste lines would gave ruled them out though.

 

[1964]

imagine the uproar if that was us