Women’s World Cup France 2019, 7 June - 7 July

LOOOOOL

That is absolutely not a foul. That is being close enough to the striker for them to clip you.

GET IN INGERLIND

Yeah, VAR, great, isn't it?

And a yellow, too ;_;

Awful.

Awful

bullshit

OMG

Justice etc

The BBC commentators really worked themselves into a shoot over this one huh

Also the ref

Abysmal penalty.

Justice otm

lets goooooooooooooooo

Great save!

They’ve missed three of their four penalties. Probably good this isn’t going the distance.

Bright Yellow Red

No knighthood for Neville Minor :(

Seeing the replay now: absolutely woeful penalty

thoroughly industrial millie

surely White should be taking them.

Bit late for that now.

... mind you, 7 mins injury time thanks to VAR.

no ideas here from eng

Like last year then

hmm.. maybe they should try getting a half decent coach?

Right, can someone please beat the USA now.

Neville out

I want to die.

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 2, 2012

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Just on a very basic level the inability to celebrate a goal without spending ages wondering if its even going to stand is just profoundly shit for the sport. And I'm saying this as someone whose team have benefited from it this season.

If they're going to use technology work on one that can be applied instantly or not at all.

Someone should retweet this to piers:

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1776 because we’re going to the #FIFAWWC FINAL!!!!#OneNationOneTeam pic.twitter.com/kZh6qH3YKi

— U.S. Soccer WNT (@USWNT) July 2, 2019

Right, can someone please beat the USA now.

Thank you, no.

he should want to die for many fucking reasons, but I suppose no harm in adding "pretending to irish" to that long list.

even before VAR you had goals disallowed for offside, sometimes well after the celebrations had gotten underway. this doesn't seem tremendously different?

in baseball if the replay isn't clearly conclusive then the decision of the ump on the field stands, and that's an explicit part of the process. does it work that way with VAR?

(xp) Occasionally a ref would consult his linesman, but that takes all of 30 seconds.

i can see it (if not necessarily *like* it) in football because the goals are so rare/monumental

the replay reviews in the nba finals were horrific tho, as are many of the uses in baseball

VAR offside at least has a consistency to it but the England pen is a textbook example of where it doesn't work, you could watch those clips a million times and gain no certainty, just another layer of stupidly bad decision-making beyond the referee's

yeah that seems like a flaw. it needs to be clearly one way or the other, otherwise defer to the ref. most of the angles on that penalty looked like nothing, but the one from behind looked like the American ran straight into White's legs.

still got a ways to go before you hit American football levels, where you watch a spectacular touchdown, then you nervously scan the field for flags, then you wait out a 5 minute review process to make sure the ball carrier performed an appropriate "football move", then you celebrate, though not too much or its 15 yards

It feels like you could devise some Hawkeye-ish offside tech that would be near instantaneous - if the Byzantine interference guidelines were dropped - and then just forget about the purely interpretive fouls/intention/contact nonsense

Then use similar technology to solve the Irish border dilemma.

woah buddy I'm not running for the Tory leadership

there won't be any such thing as an offside trap when players can teleport themselves to different areas of the pitch in a millisec!

VAR in this tournament has been a fail. I like it in limited circumstances but what got me into soccer for the first time ten years ago was the flow of the game.

This interrupts it and there is a world of diff to me between noticing a player is a foot offside vs seeing their toe is a centimeter over

There will be an offside backstop to cover that

But last year at WC it wasn't bad. I read the revisions to the handball rule and I feel like it's not being interpreted properly, but that's because they went into effect on 6/1 and nobody had much time to let it marinate

IMO players should get a text message when they are offside

I mean maybe I'm reading too much into body language but watching the ref watch the replays it seemed she was like "wtf is this shit" as much any dumbass watching with me in the pub.