Cathedral

The system of video replacements in football is not convinced of its rightness yet. But who is to blame - technology or arbitrators? Or maybe the high authorities?

The so -called VAR (Videoassistantreferee - FIFA video style system), I recall, I began to test the Confederations Cup in Russia. And even then it seemed that the good seemingly the program was far from the ideal. But in that pre -Mundial period from “indigestion”, if anyone forgot, many just laughed. That's what, for example, was in the match Cameroon -Chili in June 2017, on which I had the honor of being present.

At the end of the first half, Eduardo Vargas, who scored the ball, celebrated success with partners and torsid, saw his surname on the scoreboard, which was reflected in the current account, and was already ready for new feats. Suddenly, in the headphone of the arbitrator Damir Skomina, who recorded a minute earlier, taking the gate and pointing to the center, received a signal from a “keen eye”: they say, there was an offside. And the judge, drawing a TV in the air with his hands, canceled the goal. All Kondrashka almost had not enough all those involved in Chile from such a belated “lawlessness”. But under the curtain of the meeting, the situation repeated exactly the opposite. The Slovak referee, seeing the position of the “outside the game”, did not count the ball of the “Reds” and began to fight back from the Vidal and the Company attacked by him. But when the Camerines were already ready to play free, an important message came to the main ear: the goal is clean. And the joyful-evil Chileans, under universal laughter, ran to hug with a coach ...

We will return to Skomin later. And then the head of FIFA Gianni Infantino, in response to “repeated” criticism, stated that the femids will have a qualitatively obeyed to the World Cup on the video, and the spirit of the game would not suffer as a result of technical horseshoes. And justice on the green lawn will increase significantly. And no hand of God from Maradona-86 is expected. And such an embarrassment as in the German-English fight at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, when Jorge Laronda did not see the ball behind the German line of the front after the Lampard strike, will never happen again. And at the Planet championship, the VAR system really did not interfere with the perception of the spectacle and somewhere even helped to understand difficult moments. But in general, I did not particularly improve the impoverish. There were still errors, since the field judges did not always want to view controversial cases (the automatic system for determining the grip that worked great in several episodes, I emphasize, has nothing to do with it). And the penalty, appointed in the finale for the hit of the ball into the hand of Perishic, still remained in history by a very controversial and ambiguous decision of the nestor nestor Putina ...

Nevertheless, the new damp technology, despite constructive criticism, has received recognition and good for the use of the current Champions League in the playoff matches.

However, the disputes about whether the referee correctly or incorrectly figured out the episode, and almost no more has almost more than the arbitrators and their assistants behind the scenes.

And all because if earlier the judge was watered for the fact that he saw something or did not see something there (accidentally or intentionally-it is not so important), now with the opportunity to comprehensively consider the episode, a lot is resting, let’s say, a person for special monitors, giving the main go-ahead and hints. And in the desire of the judge number one who decides whether to enjoy the repeated “short film”, or to believe the word for the comrade for the remote control.

In short, for the second week everyone has been discussing not goals, transfers, beautiful combinations and will to victory, which allowed the “port”, “Ajax” and “Manchester United” to make flukes, how many “arbitration trial”, which negatively influenced, as many experts believe, for the outcome of the confronts of the best clubs in the Old World. And if Juventus was helped by the already mentioned system of automatically determining the gate capture (GLT), without which no referee would have seen that the ball, after the strike by Cristiano Ronaldo Yang Cloud, was already knocked out of his “athletic” house, then in other matches of the 1/8 finals of the VAR, a bunch of scandals.

Although it seemed like in mid -February everything for health. In the battle of Ajax and Real Madrid, Damir Skomina noted the Ligocapian debut of the system with the cancellation of the goal of the hosts, determining the position of the Dutch with the defender of the Dutch after watching the “Film”. The UEFA a little later confirmed the case of the arbitrator, and the Ajax who lost quietly agreed with the resolution. But already in a response in Madrid, even a video replutor from all available angles allegedly did not give an exact answer to the question: or not the ball left at the 62nd minute, out before the Amsterdams upset the “creamy” for the third time. That's just the thing that the main Svistulkin Felix Bery, having completed his assistant Mark Bosh, personally refused to view the fateful episode and recorded the Ajax goal. After the match, UEFA explained: for a one hundred percent determination of the out, it was necessary from the top (such a surveillance camera at the disposal of the judges, of course, was not at the disposal of the judges), but the arbitrators were calculated correctly.

However, the question of the fans (and not only Real Madrid) arose simple: “Why did you, begging, did not go to study the“ poor -quality ”video?”

Giunius Chakir, who served the fight of Porto and Roma, in the endgpille missed the violation on Fernando in the penalty area. And only on the screen of the TV, located on the edge, recognized the delay from Florence and appointed a penalty that allowed the Portuguese to jump into the quarterfinals. And all would be nothing, but in the 121st minute, when the Italians already claimed for the eleven-meter, the Turkish referee did not arrange a “scan”, believing the assistant for monitors, who said: “There were no violations.” But if the fans and the president of Roma, of course, wanted to burn, in their opinion, their team Chakir and VAR, then neutral lovers of English fun again combed the turnips in an attempt to solve the logic of decision -making.

The crazy March “coat” steamed with the same “blind” Skomna turned the fate of the battle between PSG and Manchester United. The video assistant of the chief referee who overslept, by the way, an episode with the ball in the hand of Kimpembe, having studied the “crime” from all sides, recommended that the Slovak knight of the whistle independently revise the meeting of the projectile with the hands of the defender of the French. Skomina obediently held a personal session for cleaning conscience and then pointed to the point. Rashford outplayed Buffon, again leaving Sheikhov and Dzhanluji without a treasured cup. And again everyone quarreled.

Neymar called the judges with prostitutes, and experts in the person of arbitrators of different years did not come to consensus: it was worth or not to appoint a penalty.

Here, of course, questions already appear not so much to VAR, but to FIFA, which can not be clearly determined by the case in which cases should be executed by the game with his hand in its own penalty. However, Var with his capabilities now gives the judge a chance to change his original decision. And the point is not that with the spirit of the game, no matter what he says, it does not fit at all. And the fact that now it is not entirely clear who to consider the main thing and to whom to make claims. Assistant for monitors or a field manager?

But the funny thing is that VAR, as shown by the Barcelona - Lyon match, is not a panacea and fails. And this is what. Polish judge Shimon Martsinyak in the first half bought to fall in Luis Suarez in the possessions of Anthony Lopesh and awarded the simulator of the penalty, which was implemented by Messi. The visionist Fint Uruguayan also did not embarrass, and there was no signal in the arbiter ear. At the same time, the minister of Themis, according to VAR, could still request a repeat, make sure that Louis lost his balance, stepping on his opponent’s leg, and correct his oversight, giving the penalty in favor of the guests. However, you did not want to conduct video editing, as you guessed. Yes, “Barcelona” was cut “Lyon” 5: 1, but the absolutely left eleven meter was appointed with a score of 0: 0 ... The French side called all this with a circus with VAR. And it is difficult to disagree with her.

Obviously, with the launch of the system they clearly hurried. You can hawk ovary in a hurry, but to introduce millions of actually a new judge into the game, without specifically and clear the rights and obligations of the entire electron-human brigade, a step, which sin to hide is quite reckless.

Supporters of the innovation claim that it is necessary to suffer, digest and condescending to the accompanying debut to the jambs, and over time Var will definitely make football cleaner and more fair.

We will wait. In the meantime, we suffer. As Leonid Slutsky said, “After the goal scored, you are now not rejoicing for a couple of minutes. It seems to be scored, but you understand that this is still not one hundred percent. Unusual sensation. "