What are PGMOL talking about - ‘tolerance levels’?
Unbelievable. I was almost lost for words when I read the PGMOL’s excuse for their incompetence in allowing the Wirtz goal at Fulham. Happily I’ve found a few - so here goes.
Wirtz was off. We all saw it. He admitted it. So why was the goal given? In case you haven’t seen, it was because of a ‘little known tolerance level’. Little known? I’ll tell you how ‘little known’. No-one knew. There wasn’t one - until they fucked up at Fulham and in trying to cover up they’ve opened a real can of worms.
I’ve said since they introduced their semi-automated system it wasn’t accurate. Now they’ve admitted it. Apparently they’ve been operating this ‘tolerance’ system since they introduced it.
This is what I’m reading in The Mail Online ‘Although manual VAR lines have been scrapped in favour of semi-automated (not true - they use them every week because the system fails somewhere) there is a small margin for error which is taken into consideration by the tech’. Why?
The piece reads on like this ‘While offside is given to the millimetre in other competitions such as the CL, the PL’s VAR system operates with a tolerance level of up to five centimetres - effectively the width of a green line’. So it’s not accurate. You’re either on or off. You can’t be ‘a little bit pregnant’ can you?
The system is a joke. It should be withdrawn immediately. Who decides which teams get ‘tolerance’? United? Liverpool? City? Arsenal? Which other decisions have been given with ‘tolerance’ this season? We need to know.
The cartoon images they offer are ridiculous. How is it possible to judge a call unless you can look straight along a line? And regulars will know I’ve been asking this same question since this Disney-like system was introduced.
What do images such as these tell us?
Teams could go down based on ‘tolerance levels’. Fulham have got every right to be angry about this, bearing in mind just about every big decision in their games went against them early season.
Enough of this nonsense. Howard Webb should either admit they got it wrong at Fulham - or withdraw the system until they can prove it’s accurate. Isn’t that why VAR was born?
We weren’t wrong about Inspector Clouseau at Celtic were we? Or Maresca, although in his case I think there are some extenuating circumstances.
Chelsea is a barm pot of a club. The people I talk to there tell me it’s a shambles behind the scenes. But when hasn’t it been since Abramovic left?
Todd Boehly is onto his sixth coach and he’s about to make another huge error. Leroy Rosenior? No. He’s a pound-shop Potter. If they give him the job Boehly will be looking for another coach in May. That dressing room will chew him up and spit him out.
Imagine WC winners like Fernandez being introduced to him. He won’t have a clue who he is. Working at Hull and Strasbourg is no way to prepare for a job like Chelsea if you haven’t been a decent player.
Chelsea should give the job to JT. Captain. Leader. Legend. A Chelsea warrior to the core. That’s enough to qualify him for me.
‘Ah, but he doesn’t have any experience’ I can hear you saying. Really? Doesn’t three years working as an assistant in the PL (I know he joined in a promotion season at Villa) count for anything? No? Well that’s all Arteta had when he got the job at Arsenal.
And don’t tell me Lampard failed. No he didn’t. It’s often forgotten in his first full season he finished fourth, despite the fact Chelsea were banned from signing players. His second spell doesn’t count. He was simply marking time.
Terry has stood by and watched all the madness unfold these past few seasons. He knows the club inside out. Which of the two - Rosenior or Terry - would excite Chelsea fans more?
It looks like Amorim is trying to get the sack again doesn’t it? What’s he talking about ‘I was employed as manager at this club’. Is he serious?Not by the Jim Reaper you weren’t. Little will anger him more than reading Amorim’s recent comments to the Press.
As one of the PGMOL’s off-side graphics might say ‘That’s All Folks’.