Quote: Fantastic Mr Catpiss "this has long since been a bug bear of mine over the video ref, as we've seen on sky in the past, they very often only look at two angles, 3 at best rather than making use of all cameras, you heard silverwood say, have we got anything else, obviously someone from the bbc was shaking his head at him, only for 15 minutes later, look we've got the camera shot from all the way down the field.
I occasionally wonder if it's done deliberately on sky so eddie et al can maintain their continued faux outrage at 'ANYTHING''"
Yep I agree with that. We've often seen that situation where Sky suddenly find another camera angle to those that were shown to the VR.
However in this case the long shot from behind was shown to Silverwood and he even commented on the shot that showed the ball above the ground at all times. Yet bizarrely he stuck to the "can't see" line that, going by his comments, it seemed as if he was determined to use as soon as he started. IIRC his very first comments were something along the lines of "can't see what happens. Well it's been sent up as a try." After only a few seconds of looking at just 1 camera shot. He seemed determined that he couldn't see what happened and so wasn't looking properly at the other shot from behind.
As others have said, it's inexcusable. Ben Thaler got demoted for a week after trying to help the walking, talking Monty Python sketch that is Thierry Alibert reach a not batsh|t decision in Catalans. By comparison this is far worse and at least on a par with the Ganson VR decision in the Hull derby game that spelled the end of his career.