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De Zerbi had a great season last year but outside of that his managerial record isn't anything special.

You honestly think an Old Firm cup final on BBC when no other football is on would only get a 'few thousand' more viewers?

Increased viewership is obviously beneficial to Scottish football and results in more revenue to teams.

Kicking off at the exact same time as the FA Cup final is stupid. One of the only Scottish matches on free TV, so you could have got a significant bump in viewers if it wasn't competing directly.

That is absolutely not true. It's exactly the same. Actually, it's worse. Not only do you have to compare 2 lines, you need to compare two lines and then attempt to measure a distance of 5cm between them. That adds more complexity and more inaccuracy. You've just listed a long reasons of why the lines can't be fully accurate, so how can you expect them to do all that and then have to measure and add in a 5cm gap without making it even more inaccurate? All it's doing is adding another variable to decrease the accuracy.

That's the problem with margin of error though. Let's say we agree the margin of error is 5cm, which sounds fair. You still need to decide if something is 5cm. So instead of deciding if an attackers leg is 0.00cm or 0.01cm ahead of a defender, you're deciding if it is 5.00cm or 5.01cm. In theory that makes sense as it gives the attacker a bit of an advantage and is more in line with the point of the offside rule in the first place, but the decision that needs to be made is still is a line 0.01cm one way or the other. It doesn't change the problem at all, it just moves it. I do think people have forgotten how bad some offside decisions were before VAR. VAR offsides are significantly more accurate than just a Linesman, which isn't up for debate. It might not be 100%, but if a linesman was 80% accurate then VAR is 99%. Regardless, I think the thing we will all agree on is the main issue is not the decisions, it's the speed. If it was instant I don't think anyone would have an issue with it. Semi Automated offside gets us much closer to that and hopefully in the future it's improved further so it is more instant like goal line technology. Of all the things VAR is bad at I don't think Offside is the problem. The inconsistency in handballs and going back 30 seconds to find any sort of foul to disallow a goal is what needs sorting.

How do you define what is 'blatantly incorrect'?

Debating who is better between Matondo and Lawrence says a lot. Sometimes two players can both be terrible, we don't need one to be better than the other. They both need shifted.

This is all valid, but the issue with tolerances is there will always be calls that require millimetre decisions. You could have a 20cm tolerance, but you're still having to make a decision on whether it is 19.99cm or 20.01cm. It just moves where the decision has to be made from line A to line B. It's the same issue with some discussions around changing offside to be 'Clear line of sight' or the furthest back part of the body rather than the furthest forward. At the end of the day you are still comparing 2 lines, you're just putting the lines in different places. When it comes to offside, the most important thing is consistency and of all the things VAR gets wrong, offside is the one they are most consistent with. Also - to clear a lot of this up, semi-automated offside uses a 500hz equivalent polling, so this will avoid most of the tolerance issues. There's a good article from The Athletic today that goes over it here. If you don't have a subscription here is a snippet Munich-based Kinexon is the company that worked in conjunction with FIFA and Adidas for five years to produce 1,500 of these high-tech footballs for the men’s 2022 World Cup and 1,500 for the 2023 Women’s World Cup. After its success, it will do the same for the men’s Euro 2024 and women’s Euro 2025 match ball called ‘Fussballliebe’ — German for ‘love of football’. “Our in-ball chip is an advanced add-on for SAOT,” says Daniel Linke, product marketing and strategy lead at Kinexon. “Using only an optical-based system has a greater error margin due to the shutter time of the camera, motion blur, picture angle and resolution.” The standard broadcast cameras (used by VAR) record at 50 frames per second but Kinexon’s in-ball chip can judge when the ball has been touched 500 times per second. With VAR in its current form, there is contention about whether the picture was frozen on the correct frame for offside calls — eg, working out the exact moment the ball had left Callum O’Hare’s boot for Coventry’s disallowed goal on Sunday — but this is where Kinexon’s in-ball chip can offer a more precise judgement. “We’ve all watched games with VAR where play is interrupted and they spend five minutes looking, only to draw the wrong conclusion,” says Linke. “It’s so tricky to see from the video images exactly when the ball is touched as the picture might be blurred or occluded. With our connected ball, you get that information instantly. It is in perfect synchronisation with the video signal; we have it down to one or two milliseconds. “Then the camera system’s algorithms are constantly working to assess offside every time a touch signal is sent by the ball chip.” Linke talks to The Athletic through one of FIFA’s example videos, which shows how the chip complements the cameras to provide virtually real-time offside calls.

Mad how everyone's losing their mind about VAR disallowing a Coventry goal, when it was actually offside. Not sure what people actually want. The penalty not given to Chelsea the day before is something that actually deserves to be discussed as that's a blatant error from VAR.

If Barisic gets a renewal I'm off to support someone else.

Goldson has always tried to deflect blame. Any mistake he's ever made on the pitch has resulted in him turning and screaming at someone else and attempting to blame him.

He never played a single game for Chelsea. His career was spent battling relegation or being relegated at Coventry, Wigan, Blackpool and Stoke. The will to win games doesn't need to be backed up by the clubs you came from.

Made Leverkusen look like a pub team. Should be at least 2 ahead.

EPL clubs only join in round 3 anyway, so to scrap it from round 1 had nothing to do with Europe.