That's the way it has always been but we supposedly moved away from that. We saw this in the Women's World Cup where some good saves were taken away because the second foot was 0.00000000001 inches off the line.
Yeah, I could do without the micrometers for offside or whether the keeper is on the line at the moment the taker hits the ball.
VAR was supposed to be for "clear and obvious errors". But they use it to micromanage. Same's true for just about any other review system. If you have to look at it again and again (and again and again), it's not "clear and obvious".
I understand their position. It either was or wasn't. There's no gray regarding offside or feet on the line. Doesn't mean I agree with it but if you go down that road, be consistent. Where the subjective aspect of the game comes into play, both from the VAR and the actual guy in the middle, is where we have controversy all the time. How many times have we (and the players) seen a foul missed or called and go WTF? In some cases it won't even get a review from VAR. The one that I recently saw was in the Galaxy/Houston game just before the PK given to the Galaxy. A cross came into the box and bounced and it seemed to have hit the defender as his arm was extended yet it was never even looked at. Then the Houston defender said "I got this" and grabbed the Galaxy player on the ensuing corner kick and NYCFC were a happy bunch.
The other thing about these constant and endless reviews is that it drrrrraaaaaaggs the games out. A lot of college pointyball games take 4 hours now. They’ve gotta put time limits on reviewing calls. If it isn’t *so clear* that you can’t overturn the call in, say 90 seconds to two minutes, then the call stands.
Kyle Beckerman kicked the ball into the ref at the final whistle of their loss to SJ and was immediately red carded. Oddly though, the ref only blew the whistle once. It's small beans, but I've always been under the assumption three whistles ended the game...or is that just a personal preference by the ref as opposed to solid FIFA law?
I can't tell if Seattle is bad or just doesn't care. They've given away all four goals tonight against LAFC...PK on a dumb challenge, own goal on a cross, unforced turnover in the edge of the six-yard box, unforced turnover at the top of the 18-yard box.
LAFC out after conceding a late goal. Goalie saves a PK during the match, then misses a save in the shootout as the ball squeezes under his arms into the net.
And exactly which "old white men" is this jackass referring to? Does FCK have a bunch of white haired old farts running the place? Is there in fact a single person who any reasonable person would call an "old white man" working for the team? Or is this just a punk gloating? And the lol is a nice touch.
At an old job, I was once in a group that had to attend a day-long Diversity Training because of a decision the General Manager had made. Said General Manager then excused himself from the training because someone had to manage the facility while we were all in the training. Needless to say, the outside training leader brought in was curious why we were all a little surly about the training situation until it got explained to her.
Apparently work did stop on the FCC stadium yesterday for training. 2 subcontractor employees fired. Also apparently FCC has had to ban a fan for life for racism. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/ne...s-stop-work-fc-cincinnati-stadium/5576329002/
I have to say I have been horrible at predicting the winners in the MLS is Back tournament. Abysmal. I don't know if that is due to the great parity in our league... the strange sort-of-but-not-really-meaning of this tournament affecting play... or I just suck at understanding the performance capabilities of these teams...
My question is, since these 2 games are being played because these two teams have played three fewer official games than everybody else, what do they plan to do about the third game? When the end of the season comes around, a potential 3 points could make a big difference to at least one of them.