In only the third minute of the first game of the tournament, an Ecuadorian goal was ruled out by VAR
in the next few weeks, the destination of football’s World Cup will probably be decided by the application of video technology. This might not happen in the final itself, but along the way, a team that might have won could well be eliminated—or an otherwise beaten side saved—by a decision from the video assistant referee, or.
The motivation for these systems is clear. Elite sport is a high-stakes affair and, where possible, officials’ errors should not affect the result. In tennis, it is extremely difficult for a line judge, standing several metres away, to decide whether a ball, which may have been hit at 150kph, has landed on the edge of the line or a few millimetres wide of it. Technology can do a much better job.s: proportionality, precision and punctuality.
Judging offside requires a human official to simultaneously observe both the passer and the attacker when they may be 20 or 30 metres apart. Again technology is much better placed to do this. Ecuador’s goal against Qatar was disallowed because a player’s knee was too advanced. Only the cameras could be this precise. Arguably, that’s too precise. The purpose of the offside law is to stop attackers gaining an unfair advantage, which a stray knee or shoulder scarcely does.
In football, outfield players are not allowed to use their hands or arms to control the ball. But if a player kicks the ball from close range and it hits an opponent’s arm, then an exception is made. But how close is “close”? Some exceptions are also made if the contact is clearly accidental, but this requires the referee to judge whether or not the defending player is holding his arms in a “natural” position, or has placed them in the line of the ball.
Because absolute precision is often impossible, punctuality should take precedence. If it takes more than a minute to decide on areview, then the decision was probably about right in the first place. A good deal of football’s charm comes from its free-flowing nature. When it comes to
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