Official VAR thread

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Crooked decision making at AFCON final. No VAR for Senegal goal a few minutes earlier. Senegal after walking from the pitch and they are right

Lovely.

Fuck off VAR.

 

[Iúr]

Did the penalty taker do the right thing and let it go to extra time or did he just shit his pants?

Diaz looked pretty shook after missing

 

[Field1]

Crooked decision making at AFCON final. No VAR for Senegal goal a few minutes earlier. Senegal after walking from the pitch and they are right

They couldn't go to VAR as the referee had already blown the whistle for the foul. Totally the referree's fault, as he blew the whistle too quickly.

 

[Thirdeye]

They couldn't go to VAR as the referee had already blown the whistle for the foul. Totally the referree's fault, as he blew the whistle too quickly.

Same thing happened villa against utd last day of season, cost them CL.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

How come PGMOL were allowed to officiate at AfCoN?

 

[Philby]

Not buying it. He's clearly onside from the frame above when the ball is played.

As mentioned, that's a frame arbitrarily chosen by the TV companies. Not the frame used by VAR.

It's not even close.

By any measure it clearly is a close decision.

They're making this shit up as they go along.

They're not. There's nothing in that decision which hasn't been established practice for 4 seasons.

Fuck off VAR.

This I can get on board with, generally.

 

[Handy Run]

How come PGMOL were allowed to officiate at AfCoN?

PGMOL - only as useless/corrupt/inept as Africa

That's some high bar you're setting there cloudY bah

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Morocco journalists walked out of the post match press conference when the Senegal coach arrived in to speak.

Joke of a tournament tbh

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

As mentioned, that's a frame arbitrarily chosen by the TV companies. Not the frame used by VAR.

Why didn't they use the one used by the TV company's?

He looks clearly onside in it. If the benefit is to be given to the attacker, surely that's the frame they should be using?

https://tribuna.com/en/blogs/explained-how-var-made-major-blunder-to-disallow-mason-mount/

 

[Philby]

Why didn't they use the one used by the TV company's?

A better question is why don't the TV companies use the frame which the VAR selects. They have access to it & the VAR aims to be more precise on selecting the right frame.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2012602104620212330

He looks clearly onside in it. If the benefit is to be given to the attacker, surely that's the frame they should be using?

No.

The giving of benefit of the doubt to the attacker comes from the 5cm tolerance threshold AFTER the lines have been drawn.

Selecting, on purpose, an earlier frame (prior to the pass being made) makes no sense at all.