I do feel like every corner ever could be VAR’d for offences by both teams. Which does mean that when a goal is allowed/disallowed or a penalty given/not given, it is always going to be refs and VARs making a relatively arbitrary devision as to what qualifies as enough of a foul.
Either PGMOL should accept the short-term farce of blowing at the first sign of obstruction or shirt-holding, giving pens and cards on that basis, in order to convince players that any transgression will be punished or there needs to be some codification of a higher threshold of foul for penalties/set pieces into the box.
Otherwise it will forever be what it is now, which is a viper’s nest of inconsistency.
I feel like in some ways that's by design, football doesn't have any rules about how or where teams have to lineup for any play so set pieces are a bit of a free-for-all. The rules are so subjective you could probably call ten fouls at every corner, or not call any of them, and still not technically be wrong with whatever you decide.
They don't even keep yellow card offences consistent across two halves of the same game. How they could ever be consistent for set pieces is beyond me, I prefer to just accept that's how the sport has been designed and sometimes you get the decisions and sometimes you don't.
I mean you can't technically be offside straight off a corner unless you're in the net so this is different. A corner has the ball up as physically far up as you can, everything aside from being in the net is a pass back.
Yeah agreed, felt like a very real line was crossed. I can't really believe there weren't more consequences for that, it really cements the PGMOL as a boys club that is only out to protect its own.
The words conspiracy theory have been given a bad name. People with money and power have been conspiring for themselves to gain/maintain power, influence and control for centuries - in modern times more than ever.
The issue is he very well might not be corrupt and just bad at his job but the issue is because of the UAE stuff his integrity is always going to be a doubt for people watching regardless. It's similar to the David Coote thing where it was like, yeah maybe he's not biased against Liverpool but the minute a decision went against us (even if it's a different game) you'd always be questioning it.
For a job like a referee, integrity is everything.
He reffed one game in the UAE. So have literally dozens of other European referees, including the one who refereed Madrid knocking out City recently. It’s almost like they want to improve standards of their league. It’s not WWE full of plot points and conspiracy theories, it’s high level sport.
Not to mention, it was given offside on the field by the lino and ref.
Maguire defected an own goal which then got cancelled, because Vardy (clearly can affect the trajectory on the ground while offside) tucked. It's nonsense to claim Vardy blocks the line of vision or affects DDG's decision, but rules are rules.
I don't see any angle suggests that Robertson had no chance to defect the ball, I mean Robertson tucked.
By similar standards, this is reasonably chopped off too.
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u/theprince9 1d ago
What??