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Why is that more true for football than it would be for, say, tennis, where hawkeye has been in operation for and widely accepted for years?
by approxim8ion 6y ago
Why is that more true for football than it would be for, say, tennis, where hawkeye has been in operation for and widely accepted for years?
- gen220 6y agoThe rules of Tennis are much more discrete and mechanical than the rules of football. For some examples, see the handball rule definition, the definition of when a penalty should be given when a foul occurs near the edge of the box, and the body parts that render an attacking player “offside”. What constitutes a foul vs a fair tackle, especially during set pieces. And, at what point in time should one draw the offside lines? This year they’ve made enforcement of offsides extremely arbitrary, overturning goals by a distance smaller than the margin of error for the technology. The lines are drawn from players armpits. Armpits are a continuous body feature, and different humans have different dimensions. In short, two good referees can review an identical event from omnipotent angles, and reasonably come to divergent conclusions.