"I wouldn't rule out a goal like that in a season game," complained Eliniv Berda, Hapoel BS coach, on Monday, at the end of the match against Maccabi Tel Aviv after the VAR system prevented him from scoring a dramatic equalizer in extra time.
Only Barda, who has a rich past as an actor, knows that this is the system's intention.
She should not help in friendly games or between two and four, when the neighbors are resting.
The VAR comes to close corners that remain open.
He is the legal reform in its own right.
Of course Beer Sheva's goal should have been disallowed, just as the system was supposed to decide on Saturday whether the goal scored by Dia Sheva from Maccabi Haifa against Ashdod was legal.
But there a failure was diagnosed, because it turns out that the advanced technology still has weak points like the lot in Ashdod.
What to do when the outdated facility in the port city is light years away from the stadiums where every millimeter can be covered.
There are dead areas in Ashdod and it is possible to release a pile of excuses because of them, but I have no doubt that the system will only keep getting better, or they will simply destroy the lot in Ashdod.
Because the time has come.
After all, we sometimes ignore the chaos that prevailed here in the days when the technology was still in the experimental stage.
We have already forgotten that every goal was born in the breech birth, every junior player complained that he was robbed and a team owner would sit down for a loss.
Every club had players whose job it was to moan in order to undermine the referee's confidence from the opening whistle.
Once upon a time it was Nir Klinger from Maccabi Tel Aviv. For every whistle against the team, Klinger would sprint tens of meters to the referee and complain. It doesn't matter that a player from his team shot an opponent's defender. He would have already filed a complaint. Maybe somewhere, towards the end, the psychological pressure will start Today, in the critical decisions, the master of VAR comes, and thus the arguments of the prosecution ended.
I watch big games abroad, and more often than not the party disperses in perfect silence because the VAR proved that the goal was offside. Although it was a quarter of a lace, three centimeters off, but the final decider made sure to submit incriminating photos that hermetically closed the case.
There are still those who claim that progress takes the spontaneity out of football, but these systems are necessary.
Think how many discussions would be saved by the "Hawk's Eye" system, which knows how to tell if the ball passed the goal line with its full circumference.
Some discussions only about that goal of the English Jeff Hurst, in the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany.
To this day there is no conclusive proof, and the Germans are convinced that they failed.
The use of VAR and its members has so far prevented a sea of scandals.
And it still turns out that there are judges that even the sophisticated system did not help them interpret the constitution correctly.
British Lee Mason decided to retire this month after conceding a goal for Brentford in a match against Arsenal, the leader of the English league, a goal that should have been disallowed.
Mason probably realized on his own that if the VAR didn't help, maybe he should really switch to another occupation, fishing for example.
I turned out to be a jerk.
When Alexander Dzikic was appointed the Hapoel Jerusalem basketball coach last summer, I called a friend who is a fan of the team and said that I had a feeling that the professional would not make it to the Tishrei holidays.
Admittedly, I made a rookie mistake.
I looked at the Serbian and said he looked like those from the organized trips who always go at the end and ask when we'll stop for coffee, and not like a basketball coach, year 2023.
I see coaches today.
They stand on the lines dressed in a suit, their assistants sit on the bench in a suit.
Everything is at the peak of fashion, tailored to their measurements.
In the timeouts, the coach explains in broken English, on a board he brought from training in the NBA, who is blocking who and warns not to get confused with exercise number 6. He looks like someone who knows and not like Džikić, who has not yet gone down to breakfast.
Well?
Hapoel Jerusalem won the state cup after defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv and its suits, and everyone is happy. Surely the fans and the management, who will extend his contract. Conclusion - don't look at the jar, but wait a bit, because the Serbian coach may peek out of it.
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