RefIADad
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Maybe I am. Being Naive, but I think that's it. As soon as everyone realises there is a margin of error, and gets comfortable with it, surely all this nonsense goes away.
The issue is that the "line drawing" is partially driven by the amateurs doing this. Just like with many other things in life, plenty of people think they can do others' jobs better despite zero training. As referees, we understand that when the loudmouth guy who has had a couple too many beers and doesn't look like he could jog the length of the pitch starts yelling at us (we've all had "that guy", right?). The same thing happens here. At some point, you just have to accept that people will try to make themselves look smarter than they are. At the end of the day, they will just make themselves look silly.
I'm sure Palace fans were happy that a Leeds goal was taken off the board. As fans, that's what we do. But as a completely neutral observer (I'm a Chelsea fan, and really only a fan at that because I'm an American and Christian Pulisic is on the team), taking that goal off the board infuriates me. That's not what the game wants. Meanwhile, we have situations like the Brighton-Tottenham match where a clear foul (at least to me) isn't called even after Graham Scott goes to the monitor. Now we don't know what the discussion was between Scott and Stockley Park, but if I were at the monitor I would have had a pretty tough time saying, "No, I know I didn't make a big mistake even after seeing that footage."
As I see it, sometimes I think the goal of VAR is to show how good the technology is as opposed to what the objective should be - to correct clear and obvious mistakes or missed calls that the game wants called.