This is another big problem with VAR. It's clearly an easier avenue for match-fixing than has ever been available before, and it'd be hard to ever prove or disprove, since what goes on in those VAR control rooms is so invisible. Often a goal is disallowed when no one had spotted any hint of a problem with it in real time, such as with this disallowed goal today. By inspecting it for long enough, they were able to find that technically someone was offside when the ball came off the keepers glove onto the striker's head and then span back off the turf onto another attacker. How long did it take to find that offside and how long were they prepared to search for? How long would they have searched for an offside if it was a Qatar goal? I'm not saying it was or wasn't influenced by Qatar, my point here is simply that it could be and it'd be hard to prove, and that this is yet another issue with VAR: by having this mechanism so heavily affecting the course of a match on such a routine basis, games will be much more open to deliberate manipulation.
With games being filmed on real cameras from every angle it makes you wonder why VAR has to show a computer generated image of the offside.
Doesn't feel quite right walking to the store for some half time snacks during the World Cup, when the weather is like this please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
I know I should probably care a bit more about other things surrounding it, but this is my biggest bugbear with it at the moment. Didn't particularly like it being in Russia last time (and rightly so it turns out after the last few months!) But at least it was during summer and it was stonking hot here if I remember rightly
'Tattoos are not clothing': Qatar issues rules for visiting fans Football fans must keep their shirts on and not be "visibly under the influence of alcohol" at World Cup stadiums in Qatar, organisers have said in a prepared code of conduct for the tournament. The document adds: "The applicable event organiser may require ticket holders to stop using musical instruments if the sound emitting from the respective device interferes with event operations or the enjoyment of other ticket holders. "Electronic, mechanical or manual devices that produce noise or other excessively loud sounds, such as vuvuzelas, whistles, loudspeakers etc heaters for drums are also prohibited." https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...sedgntp&cvid=a0152fe87bff4b15901d66f4cca1019c
And yet just today, in the glory glory alleluia land of freedom and democracy, not Qatar, the following type of everyday incident occurred: https://www.news360.es/ww/2022/11/2...-shooting-at-an-lgtbq-club-in-colorado-usa-7/
