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Still spouting the 98.18% insult to intelligence :poop:
I get that it's a FIFA briefing, but its more like propaganda. A legend of a referee now tainting that legacy imo
 
I heard elsewhere there were only 8 errors following VAR--I'd love to see their list of what the errors were!
That figure is in the briefing pack that went with it although it obviously doesn’t tell us which ones they say are wrong!
https://resources.fifa.com/image/up...4-statistics.pdf?cloudid=b7h9pras9shxrwulsfux

I don’t have a problem with the accuracy figure, the bigger concern is the nature of the use of VAR, which hasn’t seemed timely on a number of occasions during the tournament so far for me.
 
That figure is in the briefing pack that went with it although it obviously doesn’t tell us which ones they say are wrong!
https://resources.fifa.com/image/up...4-statistics.pdf?cloudid=b7h9pras9shxrwulsfux

I don’t have a problem with the accuracy figure, the bigger concern is the nature of the use of VAR, which hasn’t seemed timely on a number of occasions during the tournament so far for me.
To make the accuracy figure work, they must be chucking anything contentious in the accurate bucket
Much is said about the positivity surrounding VAR. Unless that's fabricated, they must be referencing nations outside the UK (and Cameroon ;)).
I've encountered a few people who are VAR advocates, but most referees and 'normal people' I know are against it. The general consensus being that its spoiling tournaments. So something simply doesn't add up
 
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To make the accuracy figure work, they must be chucking anything contentious in the accurate bucket
Much is said about the positivity surrounding VAR. Unless that's fabricated, they must be referencing nations outside the UK (and Cameroon ;)).
I've encountered a few people who are VAR advocates, but most referees and 'normal people' I know are against it. The general consensus being that its spoiling tournaments. So something simply doesn't add up

Be quiet and drink your Kool-aid . . .

The 98% comes from 400 something checks and only 8 incorrect calls left standing afterwards. Of course, a lot of those checks are inconsequential--there is a check after every PK call and every goal (a quarter of the checks)--for many goals the check really doesn't have anything to look at and for the clear penalty kicks, VAR still picks up a point for not screwing it up. And quite a number of the OS reversals were no brainers--calls that an AR at that level should have had right in the first place.

It's really hard to evaluate FIFA self-congratulatory analysis when they don't share what calls were wrong after VAR--we have no idea what the standard is.
 
Qin Liang, the referee in charge of that Cameroon match, is one of eleven referees selected to stay for the quarter finals onwards. There clearly is a shortage of top female referees.
 
Not sure they sell that down my local 🍺
% thing now makes sense

(It occurs to me that "drinking the kool aid" may be an Americanism referring to buying into something all the way and without reservation. (It has a gruesome origin in the tragic mass suicide of a cult by poisoned flavored drink--much to the chagrin of the Kool Aid brand, extra exasperating to them as it was actually a different brand of drink but their brand got linked to it.)
 
Qin Liang, the referee in charge of that Cameroon match, is one of eleven referees selected to stay for the quarter finals onwards. There clearly is a shortage of top female referees.

Or are they protecting her (and themselves) by not sending her home? I think we'll know based on what assignments she actually does or doesn't get.
 
(It occurs to me that "drinking the kool aid" may be an Americanism referring to buying into something all the way and without reservation. (It has a gruesome origin in the tragic mass suicide of a cult by poisoned flavored drink--much to the chagrin of the Kool Aid brand, extra exasperating to them as it was actually a different brand of drink but their brand got linked to it.)

Yeah I can imagine how a company might not want to be connected with the mass suicide/murder of 900 people.
 
(It occurs to me that "drinking the kool aid" may be an Americanism referring to buying into something all the way and without reservation. (It has a gruesome origin in the tragic mass suicide of a cult by poisoned flavored drink--much to the chagrin of the Kool Aid brand, extra exasperating to them as it was actually a different brand of drink but their brand got linked to it.)

It was apparently a very similar product called Flavor Aid, that was used.
 
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