If video technology was used lets say.. Arsenal's goal would of been disallowed yesterday anyway because he had a toe off side. But looking at it normally, you'd never say that was offside. I just think minute details like this would maybe ruin the game.
You know, I grew up watching Polish Ekstraklasa, which at the time was ripe with game fixing and corruption. I've seen **** you people wouldn't believe.
My hometown team was relegated in mid 1990s. It was a match fixing scheme so elaborate, I wouldn't have thought it possible if I didn't see it with my own eyes.
We were 5th by mid-season and were hoping to challenge for Europe. Second part of the season we had dip in form, but after 37 games we still didn't spend even a day on relegation spots. Last day we were playing another relegation candidate. It was away game so I listened oh the radio. After half-time we're leading 1-0. In the second half out of nowhere we get a goal disallowed and two players send off, you can guess what happens next.
I remember radio speaker saying we are relegated and I just could not believe it. Nobody even saw it coming because we never looked like in danger for 99% of the season, only came in reach of the bottom 4 by the 37 game, and got relegated completely out of nowhere, in last minutes of the season, after looking completely safe for entire year. It was like something out of this world.
Years later it turned out, the clubs in those days used to run sort of protection pacts. If you weren't a part of the pact, a complex match fixing scheme was cooked, with teams deliberately throwing games against your direct opponents to sink you. It was racket, and that year our board felt we were strong enough not to pay up (because previous years we did, we were not above it). That **** was going on for years, decades maybe until finally somewhere about 2005ish cops have got the sniff of the whole thing.
VAR may not be perfect, it will certainly take time to fine tune how it's applies and there's bound to be some hiccups. But I've seen enough Dark Side of football to know that using objective tech to help the refs is necessary for the game of football to stay free of corruption.
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