AlfGreyruinedmyday
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VAR = Vary Any Result in my opinion.Var is a farce, let's face it, if a liverpool fan is in the studio at stockley viewing a City match they're never going to give a decision in Citys favour are they.
Whereas goal line technology has been easily accepted. There's too much wiggle room in VAR for human prejudice; human incompetence and corruption (principally from betting syndicates) to play a role. In that respect, to me it's not much of an improvement upon the days of old Alf.
The apparent inability in some quarters to even accept errors may have happened is not positive as acceptance of such is the first step to improving the system. I never expected it to be 100% correct when it was originally rolled out, but I expected it to be much, much better once its trial was completed. Similar problems appeared in the home games with THFC in last season's Champions League and this year's league match but nothing seems to have been learnt in the period between the two games.
VAR is great for the Milner offside last season because that was a clear and obvious error. It's less so when it's dealing with toenails and shirt thickness variances.
When I last ran, my body was leaning forwards as it was infinitely easier to do than running upright or leaning backwards, unless you're John Cleese. If one attacker is running forward and a defender is holding their position then there is every likelihood that part of the forward's body will be closer to the goal than the defender. To me, it's much more sensible to restrict everything to the feet.
Until they can provide a photo akin to that provided in athletics or cycling finishes, the technology is always going to be open to manipulation. Until then, everything remains in the hands of human fallibility.
Furthermore, I sense a creep towards the American football situation where a sixty minute game takes three hours to complete.