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Seeing Like a Referee | Jonathan Tarleton

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On June 24, I divided my attention. The final matches of the World Cup’s group stage, played concurrently within each group since 1982 to prevent match fixing, were as good a use-case as any for FOX One’s Multiview. Scotland–Brazil to the left, Morocco–Haiti to the right; my own miniature World Cup panopticon in the comfort of my living room. I watched without real focus or commitment until Brazil’s Vinicius Jr. dispossessed a Scottish defender to slot home his second goal of the night. Had he done so illegally? The requisite replays to check every goal for possible flaws began. Some thousand-plus miles away in Dallas, a three-person Video Assistant Referee team scrolled through its own bank of screens, then whispered their findings into the ear of César Ramos, the in-person referee in Miami. They had spotted an infraction. As the defender swung his leg back to make a pass to his goalkeeper, he’d nicked Vini’s own and botched the pass in the process.…

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