by Sutekh »
13 Jun 2018 22:59
Apparently linesmen have been instructed NOT to raise their flags for offside when the decision is very tight. Seems FIFA want play to be allowed to develop and if a goal is scored to let VAR make the decision.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... gi-collinaSo does that mean that the ref suddenly gets a message in his ear that it’s offside or does play get allowed to continue all the way and then checked if a goal is scored? To my mind it is starting to make an absolute joke of things as the technology is, I thought, only meant to be used if the referee makes a request for it. Next thing you know they’ll do away with refs making the decision on the pitch and just have “drone” officials following orders from afar.
And if play is allowed to continue and a corner is won a minute or so later is it called back for the free kick for offside or does play just continue on as if nothing happened?
Then there’s adding on all the time if play is allowed to continue unnecessarily...
Also very dangerous to show replays of the passage of play in the stadium even if the ref has made his decision as if hundreds/thousands rightly or wrongly don’t agree with that decision it’s going to make things very “stressful” for some.
Overall I wish they would take the whole VAR idea outside somewhere, box it up in a bid lead box padlocked with 50 foot wrought iron battleship chains and then drop the whole lot into the Mariana trench.