From Jorge Pardo, Reston, Virginia, US
Throwing more technology at football’s video assistant referee system is the wrong approach to its perceived problems (23 November, p 40).
Alongside football’s fundamental character, which places human deceit above brute force (as Maradona described it), one of the arguably beneficial features of the game is the reliance on the judgement of its arbiters. This involves acknowledging their human limitations and contributes one more factor to the randomness that attracts, as much as it dismays, its fans.
Burdening a game that was adopted worldwide for its beauty, and its sparse need for equipment, with more cameras, sensors and statistical models will make it less economically practical in many countries.
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