An excellent piece. My husband who shares your love of the beautiful game has raised himself from his seat to applaud you without waiting for VAR to verify his enthusiasm.
No doubt you'll be at a certain football match as I write this!! :)
Good, carefully considered article, as ever. My question is 'off at a tangent' but what was the reason that VAR was introduced for use at football matches? I'm guessing something to do with bets placed on one team or another? Thus big money involved?
Who knows the real reasons for its implementation. There was a degree of pressure from the ultra-rich clubs who were claiming that referees’ errors were costing them dearly!
Excellent article. Yet again people from afar making decisions based on technology while ignoring the experience of the individual with real life knowledge of the situation, it never ends well. Technology has its place but it is to help man not take over and replace the hard earned human experience that no machine will ever really know and understand. From that experience comes change, growth and innovation, it always has, if the human experience is ignored we will stagnate and regress.
An excellent piece. My husband who shares your love of the beautiful game has raised himself from his seat to applaud you without waiting for VAR to verify his enthusiasm.
😂😂 Clearly your husband is on the same wavelength about VAR.
He definitely is but thankfully he’s also on the same wavelength with all the comparisons you’ve so accurately highlighted.
No doubt you'll be at a certain football match as I write this!! :)
Good, carefully considered article, as ever. My question is 'off at a tangent' but what was the reason that VAR was introduced for use at football matches? I'm guessing something to do with bets placed on one team or another? Thus big money involved?
Who knows the real reasons for its implementation. There was a degree of pressure from the ultra-rich clubs who were claiming that referees’ errors were costing them dearly!
That does suggest that money was the reason, I'm thinking.
Excellent article. Yet again people from afar making decisions based on technology while ignoring the experience of the individual with real life knowledge of the situation, it never ends well. Technology has its place but it is to help man not take over and replace the hard earned human experience that no machine will ever really know and understand. From that experience comes change, growth and innovation, it always has, if the human experience is ignored we will stagnate and regress.
Thank you, Amat. Totally agree.