VAR rebellion from Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray … – Last minute Fenerbahce news

The echoes of the giant derby between Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray, which resulted in a 1-0 advantage of the yellow-red team, continue. Yellow-lacivertliler made a statement about the VAR decisions regarding the Galatasaray match.

In a statement by the yellow-blue people, titled “About the VAR system that legitimates manipulations” “Legitimizing manipulations”, concern was expressed about the VAR decisions.

The official statement from Fenerbahçe is as follows:

We are making this statement with the responsibility of revealing concrete facts on behalf of the interests of both our club and Turkish football, after the events of the referee management, which we think affected the outcome of the match, which was revealed in the 24th week match of our team, the Super League.

In the 75th minute of the match, our goal position recorded by Ozan Tufan and canceled within 30 seconds on the grounds of “offside” as if smuggling goods from the fire, and our sports commentators, our club and our fans could not make a clear decision about how it was offside, clearly revealed a reality. .

This is real; Under the name of “VAR technology”, attempts to be introduced as “100% reliable”; However, it is the necessity to question the system, which can turn into a tool for legitimizing manipulations under inadequate or malicious hands.

The “legitimization of manipulation by unstable practices”, which we have tried to emphasize, sometimes manifests as “missed out of the agenda” by skipping a red card position or penalty, sometimes as “misrepresenting” an offside position.

On this occasion, we would like to present to the public how the VAR system is not based on automation as described and is open to manipulation, especially at the point of offside lines, with concrete examples and physical rules:

1) First of all, we would like to emphasize that the 100% reliable and objective line measurement technology used by the VAR system is the goal line technology, which is only shot and measured with cameras positioned at a vertical angle of 90 degrees to the goal lines.

2) Since the camera angles are not positioned at a vertical angle of 90 degrees to the last player in defense in all positions outside the goal line, it is fixed by the laws of physics that the lines drawn on the images taken with these angles are only and only a prediction modeling.

3) In this direction; While the lines are drawn to determine whether the positions are offside, the choices that are not part of a technology, completely belonging to the subjective choices of the referees and technicians at the head of the VAR system and directly affecting the results are listed below in order:

a) Deciding on which camera angle the line will be drawn on the shot from among the shots made with many cameras.

b) Deciding on exactly which millisecond the image will be stopped and the line will be drawn when the ball leaves the foot or body of the attacker who last played with the ball.

cDetermining and projecting the body parts of the defender and attacking players closest to the goal that can play with the ball closest to the goal.

d) Application of lines to images

e) Displaying several different angled views on the same screen, where the moment of hitting the ball and the players’ lineup at this moment can be seen simultaneously in offside positions.

As can be clearly understood in the light of the above articles, the offside lines determined by VAR technology are not automatically determined with a software in a 100% reliable way, as they are trying to be introduced to the Turkish football public opinion. The results are determined as a result of the subjective selection of the referees and technicians at the head of the VAR system, and the issues such as the moment of the hit and the foremost limb are determined at their discretion.

At this point, we want to share the goals of Ozan Tufan regarding the subjective selection criteria listed above and some of the striking examples that came to the fore in our league this season with his pictures and show how the decision can be based on subjective criteria through subjective choices: