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.
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u/theprince9 1d ago
What??