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Answer to VAR is not more tech
So now the Mailbox is, once again, embroiled in a discussion about how to fix the fundamentally broken monstrosity that is VAR for offside. And the answer is … more, more more. More technology, more sensors, more accuracy, better cameras.
No, no, no, no, no.
VAR for offside is crap, yes. The “technology” (i.e. a man drawing lines with a mouse on a zoomed-out 2d image taken from a single angle) is not accurate enough to achieve what the FA/Premier League/PGMOL/whoever are pretending it can.
But improving the technology is to spectacularly miss the point.