True, that goes to my agreement that VAR is better than the alternative in the very obviously wrong decisions (which now cannot be “missed” without it being so obvious as to fully expose manipulation).
And regarding marginal incidents going for and against us, I address that in my most recent reply to
@Alan Harper's Tash. I have not and do not assert they *always* choose to manipulate outcomes via marginal calls. Only that they have *chosen* to implement VAR in a way that allows them to do so and that the current state of VAR is not necessary (i.e. they could make it more transparent and much less susceptible to manipulation but choose not to do that).
I too am quite interested to see how the semi-automated offside system works and whether the PL will adopt it. It tends to be the last to adopt any such innovation (itself a tell-tale sign of corruption) and, when it does, tends to do it slightly differently (read: less transparently) to most other major leagues.
And will still find the system dubious if they refuse to release general information outlining the underlying systems, methods, and margins of error as they have with the current system. That lack of transparency is a major red flag, as there is no reasonable argument for not providing that basic information of the current 3D spatial measurement system (they can repeat “oh, well, we want to protect the proprietary systems” all they want, but no one is going to reverse engineer the product if they released the margin of error (and/or variance between implementation sites).
