re: Review and technology have jumped the shark

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That same technology is still required to correctly apply the Wenger rule and it's the same exact line that's getting measured 1 inch rulings don’t go away at all. You're just switching measuring whether the attacker was a toe offside to whether the defender's toe kept the attacker onside

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This is true, but seeing so many goals disallowed because an inch of someone’s kneecap was offside seems to go against the spirit of the rule.

If they relax the offside rule and a goal gets disallowed by var, I wouldn’t mind as much.

It wasn’t the same because Ronaldo was clearly offside. The offside for the Croatian player was entirely contingent on whether or not the guy in the box actually touched the ball. Said touch, if it happened at all, is completely imperceptible to the human eye and did not change the trajectory of the ball. I’m all for VAR being used for clear and obvious errors, as it was originally intended, but this kind of micromanagement and FIFA’s hand waiving of fans to blindly trust sensor technology is not what I want to see in the game.

We can agree to disagree

Half of Ronaldo’s body being offside vs a player being made offside by an actual hair are not the same to me lol

The problem at least with reviewing fouls is the constant replaying of it in slow motion. Almost every challenge looks worse in slow motion.

They showed the graph and there was only one spike. You can clearly see it hit that guys arm. If it hit the hair and the arm there would be 2 spikes

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They showed the graph and there was only one spike. You can clearly see it hit that guys arm. If it hit the hair and the arm there would be 2 spikes

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I assume the spike in the graph is only for the moment that's synced with the ball passing the Croatian players' head.

If they can't sync that well all of the VAR offside calls are arbitrary.

Look at that video form the other angle. It sure seems to me like the ball changes trajectory when it grazes the Croatian guy's head. No?

The simple fix to both is 1. Reword the offside rule to make it a player is fully past the second to last defender. That stops the lean and all that picky shite.

The other is simple- if var is used incorrectly as it was for the us red, the red is overturned and the ref fired

You said it yourself, they wanted “obvious” missed calls overturned. Think the Alex Freeman goal against Australia. I think the issue is they’ve gone way beyond that by implementing the chip in the ball, and even more so by including subjective red cards and penalties in the ambit of VAR. Balogun red, Portugal penalty, Croatia offside, none of those are obvious calls.

The Croatian offside issue isn’t nearly as controversial if VAR doesn’t also award Portugal the softest penalty we’ve seen all tournament. VAR shouldn’t be making calls where you have half the viewership (including numerous ex-refs) saying it was a wrong call after review. If VAR is intervening is needs to be clear and obvious, where every person essentially agrees “oh yeah the original ref clearly just missed this one.”