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23 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Arsenal win this game with a different VAR. And that's the problem with the current offside process, that many don't realise.

There's a key subjective element that means a different VAR doesn't draw the lines on the penalty (or on Everton's goal) because it's too close.
The case for the prosecution. Both these offside decisions were done by the same VAR.

They would not happen with every VAR. ImageImage
This is why the upcoming semi-automated offside is going to be so, so, so crucial.

It will remove all the subjectivity of the VAR plotting points on players. And it will transform the fan experience.

espn.co.uk/football/blog-…
Just to underline my point even more. I've just realised the same VAR is responsible for all three of these. ImageImageImage

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26 Apr
It's your Monday VAR thread, looking at:

- Fabian Balbuena red card
- Callum Wilson handball (and reference to Luke Shaw)
- Arsenal penalty
- The little-known subjective element of offside

As usual, don't shoot the messenger.
Let's start with Fabian Balbuena, it's just a really VAR intervention.

Referee Chris Kavanagh isn't blameless of course, but as I said with the Tomas Soucek red card vs. Fulham it's the VAR, Peter Bankes, who is the gatekeeper.

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I've talked several times about referees lacking confidence as VARs, almost second guessing against their own vast experience and judgement.

This seemed the case here, with the VAR watching the incident so many times he convinced himself something was there that wasn't.
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20 Apr
So the Premier League 14 meet today to discuss the Six Saboteurs and the European #SuperLeague.

What happens is going to be really important.

The Premier League needs the Six Saboteurs.
The Six Saboteurs need the Premier League.
The ESL would break the Premier League. 1/9
It's reported that as part of the JP Morgan financing package, clubs must continue playing domestic football.

So the Six Saboteurs will fight tooth and nail through all avenues to make sure they are not banned. 2/9
Gianni Infantino at the UEFA Congress on the ESL clubs:

"If some elect to go their own way then they must live with the consequences of their choice, they are responsible for their choice - concretely this means, either you are in, or you are out." 3/9
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19 Apr
The more you think about the European Super League format, the more ridiculous it is.

#SuperLeague offers 5 qualifying places (let's be honest, they're guest slots).

The 5 teams will be part of UEFA. The 5 would have to reject the UCL to take part for 1 season. Laughable.
Not forgetting, of course, they only have 12 teams and failed to get Bayern, Dortmund and PSG on board.

They couldn't get to 15 they need to start this!

Is anyone going to join them after the reaction?

Who are they going to fill it with? Shakhtar? Zenit? BATE Borisov?
It makes sense that the big 6 in England, and 3 in Spain and Italy, all signed up. Clearly for some the FOMO on the financials to domestic rivals is very difficult to reject.

But it's against the ethos of Bayern and Dortmund, and PSG were the only French club invited. (cont)
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15 Apr
After the Emre Can handball penalty, I thought I'd run through why there's disagreement among referees about whether it's a penalty.

I'll also explain how handball ended up here, with quotes from Pierluigi Collina and David Elleray.

How we're in this mess is still unclear.
Unfortunately no rights vid to embed, so to explain what happened:

Emre Can went to head clear, but the ball glanced off his head and deflected onto his outstretched arm.

Referee Carlos del Cerro Grande gave the pen. Spanish refs MUCH stricter on handball (stats to follow).
The referee judged that Emre Can touches the ball with his hand/arm when it has made their body unnaturally bigger.

But what about the clauses for the ball deflecting off the body or when the player is deliberately playing the ball?

First off, the deliberate play (No. 2 here).
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14 Apr
LATEST VAR STATS THREAD

Overturns: 105
Rejected: 5
Goals: 28
Disallowed: 34
Pens: 23 (5 missed)
-handball: 11
-overturned: 20
-retakes: 3
Offside goals: 26
Allowed after offside: 7
Disallowed handball: 4
Allowed after handball: 0
Reds: 15
-overturned: 2
espn.co.uk/football/engli…
VAR STATS (cont)

Most for: Brighton 9
Fewest for: Arsenal 2
Most against: Liverpool 12
Fewest against: Burnley 0
Most net for: Burnley 5
Most net against: Liverpool, WBA 6
Most involvement: Liverpool 18
VAR STATS (cont)

Most goals awarded: Leicester 4
Most goals disallowed: Liverpool 7
Best net goal score: Sheffield United +3
Worst net goal score: Liverpool -8
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12 Apr
There was no angle for the VAR to make a decision with the tech there. Mbaye Diagne's shoulder blocked on two angles, and the defender's boot on the other. Impossible for the VAR to over-rule, would be a guess. #WBASOU
So no doubt we are going to have another massive controversy here.

How can the VAR make a decision here when you cannot see the player who scored the goal? It would be a guess.

This is the correct decision. VAR cannot over-rule the linesman when he cannot see the two player.
It is completely impossible to make a VAR decision off this.

You cannot see where Mbaye Diagne's upper body is.

For that reason, the ONLY decision is to stay with the field decision. Image
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