Premier League to vote on scrapping VAR

[Jimmy Badfellow]

The biggest flaw in the "offside by a toenail argument" is that no-one in authority is prepared to confirm that the technology is absolutely and utterly capable without a shadow of doubt able to capture the exact millisecond when the ball was played......and yet a player can be offside by a whisker.
So we don't really know if these marginal decisions are actually correct anyway.

That's a really good point Mellow. Everything is focused to the line but no one seems to care about the accuracy of the boot coming into contact with the ball. Its a bit like trying to judge a push shot at snooker from 75 yards away at high speed!

[avondalemiller]

That's a really good point Mellow. Everything is focused to the line but no one seems to care about the accuracy of the boot coming into contact with the ball. Its a bit like trying to judge a push shot at snooker from 75 yards away at high speed!

I used to have a beer with a linesman from the early days of the Premiership. he said they watch the player and listen for the "thump" of the ball. Still not an exact science, but probably the best way to measure it. As long as everyone stuck to it.