VAR worked as it should. Linesman made a call and it was way too close to definitively state that the call was wrong by a clear and obvious standard. No reason to complain.
Lines are stupid and shouldnt be used. The Prem has them and its been an unmitigated disaster ... worst VAR I have seen ANYWHERE, by a country mile in fact. You cant calculate the exact millisecond foot touches ball (not ball rebounding off foot), so the line being drawn is ITSELF an estimation. So to then call someone off by a quarter millimeter like the Prem does with the VAR lines is awful to the nth degree. And public decision? Why? The refs decision before we had VAR wasnt announced on the board either. He puts his hand up, it means offside as it always did. He points to the spot and touches his arm, it was a handball, as it always was. People seem to hate VAR's intrusiveness but then advocate a "fix" to VAR that does not make it less so.
Mrs. Bluecat and I discussing what Inchy could have possibly said at halftime to turn this around as MNUFC was getting completely overrun... Mrs.: "C'mon boys, you're better than this!" Me: "Something along those lines, yes...with about two dozen colorful metaphors tossed in."
MLS does not have the lines this year. Buried in the full length version of this video it basically says that MLS won't have the lines. They try to put some spin on it but it's pretty much just MLS being too cheap to have installed throughout the league's venues: 📽️// Here's what we've got covered in a special preseason edition of Inside Video Review.Watch in full >> https://t.co/Zkn2gTLoBb.#PRO | #MLSisBack pic.twitter.com/l1O9s6U6Cr— PRO (@PROreferees) February 27, 2020 I'd really like MLS to have the line drawing technology so I am disapointed.
I'd rather have the lines decide than the very very different perspectives of the very very different people in each VAR room. We saw it again and again last season where one VAR team would not overturn a offside call unless it was clearly like 3 feet wrong and others would overturn one when it was at most 2 inches wrong. There is no consistency in the current system because there can't be because of the very many different humans involved. I feel like the lines would narrow the error amount quite a bit even if it leads to people bitching about millimeters. I'd even accept having the lines but saying it can't overturn anything where the original call is less than 1 inch (or 1 1/2 or whatever) wrong.
By the way (and this is relevant, because they're talking about everything that's happened in MLS since 1996, and since she was on the telecast of the Miami game), is there any chance we can bring back the very hot version of Liv Tyler from 25 years ago?
nice first week of mls, dont really support a team but im curious to see how the new chicago, inter miami and columbus do
I had Minnesota winning 3-2, I audibly cheered when Portland scored that last minute goal only to be depressed a couple minutes later.
I'm getting back into JD & the Rod now that they are back, but other than that, just Nos Audietis (Sounders specific).