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Thanks for sharing and this is really great into what's happening. I missed all of this and you know what, imagine the worst case scenario and this didn't happen at the beginning of the season, but in a head to head race on the last two matchdays when the title was still to be won for two teams and one team would be affected by such a decision. Skipping a goal scene like this and not drawing the graphic line with a computer is something that goes beyond me. I don't get it. I would really like to know whether they had technical issues or prefer to claim "significant human error". Both is really bad because a computer should be able to calculate it unless, and this is a problem, we are talking about 0.5 mm or something like that. Can their computers even catch that? I would also like to know the tolerances because it was very close but if I had to guess, I would say it was a goal. That is unacceptable.
Anybody who watched the game would know that was a clear on-side but the referrees were very quick to dismiss it and after queries from Liverpool players for the goal to be checked, they did and immediately showed that VAR has officially disallowed the goal. What's more interesting is that this happened early in the first half long before Tottenham even scored.
Like you said, if this had happened when each game might decide if title races are a hit or miss, such "significant human errors" can be catastrophic. I thought this is why we have VAR in the first place?
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Some interesting development in this case with the release of the audio material. I know it doesn't really matter that the audio material confirms what everybody knew anyway, but it is quite telling that the VAR referee realized he made a mistake but because the game was started again, he couldn't intervene anymore. Isn't that the simplest rule to introduce right there? If within a minute or two a mistake is noticed, there should be an option to intervene and set the game back for two or three minutes instead of screwing it all up so hard.
I understand Klopp who now wishes for the game to be replayed. There is so much on the line in this business and this mistake was really obvious, devastating and the worst, it felt like it was intentional ignorance. Klopp said that other goals are sometimes checked for minutes and this case was closed in seconds. This is what makes it so suspicious. And I agree absolutely with him. Damn sometimes it takes three minutes or so, another view on the monitor and what not.