I’d say champions league to both. Brings in more money eventually due to increased visibility, more glory hunting fans etc.

And I’d say it’s harder based on City’s recent record in both competitions. Over the league season, results balance out and the best team will usually win. In a league then knock out competition anything can happen.

The problem with just using AI is that it will have to be trained on subjective and biased data. You see this with social issues where AI is accused of racism because it has used bad data, or it is accurate but the results are uncomfortable.

What if AI is trained on data that biases towards players in the colour red? And it realises it can use that as a bit of an indicator when it’s a close call. Perhaps you could exclude this from it’s scoring system, but you will always be working with subjectivity - even if it’s a machine that’s doing it.

Would be interesting to try but I think you lose transparency by doing this and people won’t be happy when a seemingly random decision is made by a machine.

I don’t think they’re saying it wasn’t a red for that forearm knock - I think the question was whether VAR should intervene or not. So if they think the ref saw it and it wasn’t clear and obvious, they would say VAR shouldn’t get involved and the on field decision should stand.

Slight decision that makes it more debatable although probably still wrong from those 2 on the panel. Seemed like a clear and obvious mistake from the ref to me.

Or in other words, Newcastle fans are typically more realistic and less hysterical? That does track based on the lack of understanding and the conspiracies we’ve seen getting banded about in these threads.

Forearms become elbows, spheres become cubes, refs, linesmen, VAR, ex-pros are bought and paid for… Lmao.