Wimbledon:- the last nail in the coffin for VAR?

Problem you've got is at Wimbledon every decision is black and white, ball is in or out, in football, apart from offsides other decisions like interpretations of handball's and fouls it's very much subjective where humans need to be involved.

I'd get rid of VAR tomorrow by the way....well, today if possible.

We'd all just have to promise not to get on refs backs anymore when errors occur, probably easier to be more philosophical about mistakes after suffering the purgatory of VAR for these past few years, although it would wear off eventually when your team has one ruled out for an off-side, that wasn't

I take your point and do recognise that piling all the responsibility on referees could lead to big problems including corruption.

But, to break it down, could not everything a linesman does not be done better by electronic eye? and, could not a drone above the stadium trained to follow the ball not do everything the VAR committee does today, more accurately and quickly?

I reckon only if it had clear parameters, how would it be able to interpret a handball or not unless it was instructed that every contact with the arm or hand is indeed an offence, same with fouls, we often see contact but a foul isn't given, how would a robot be able to understand the nuances of the situation.

I would go back to piling it all onto the refs though, I think they'd welcome it and I think withthe experience of VAR behind us, on the whole we'd be a whole lot more understanding toward them when things did go wrong.

What you suggest would deffo be good with offsides, the funny thing about asking a linesman to decide on an offside is that he has to do something that a human being is incapable of doing, namely literally looking at two things at the same time.

Not only that but human nature takes over and the linesman lets play continue even when he knows it is wrong.

That happened ten times a game last season.

Maybe wait more than a bit of a day to see if it's better. And players had only 3 challenges each per set (more if their challenges were correct) and often didn't use them all. Hardly makes that much of a difference. Maybe for 5 points a set. To say the game flows much better is a massive exaggeration.

Was used at previous tournament.

Game certainly flows better

Players lost a point... wanted a time out... made a challenge...

. Not coming back

Still chance to feign injury of course, and toilet time outs but not during games..

Failed at Wimbledon after failing to call a ball that was clearly out after operator inadvertedly turned the machine off.

If you are designing a critical system part of the spec should be a monitor and alarm system to loudly tell you when the system is defective or has failed, been turned off.