My favourite thing about it was the crying from so many advocates of VAR - be careful what you wish for
I think if the Watford player touched it on purpose it was the right call as per the current rules. Could be wrong.
They aren’t exactly going to come out and say their refs are ****e with no idea of how to interpret the laws of the game.
He did, but the point is that he only did, because he was trying to clear the ball from Sterling who was offside. Sterling gained an advantage by being in an offside position and imo it should have been called as offside.
Absolutely this. It also deflected the trajectory of the ball away from its target. Which might not have been bang on target but there you go, it still did. He watched the ball onto his arm while sticking out his elbow more or less, to say it shouldn't given just because he turned his back is utter nonesense. Where's that in the rule book?
No but they confirmed 2 meetings including 1 just 3 days before the game sspecifically on the issue of handball and particularly on clarifying that if a player has his arms away from the body making himself bigger then a pen is to be awarded. We may disagree on the rule itself but the ref made the correct decision according to the rules.
You'll be too strong and motivated for those clowns. If you don't win by at least two goals, I'm opening the wum gates, Tel.
Another massive tell is the defender's reaction when the ref awarded the pen. His reaction was of a player who realised he fcked up while trying to be clever. There was no surprise or immediate anger from him at all, he just put his head down.
Yep agreed. That's what I was saying, the rule on offside needs changing. If a player is in an offside position, then it should immediately be called as offside.
You can't really use that as a reason. He'd had 3 minutes of watching the Ref do his VAR thing and his reaction was of somebody who knew some **** might be coming his way. It was more a reaction of resigned disappointment knowing there was **** all he could do about it.
Shouldn’t have turned his back the stupid ****. In fact, he should have been sent off in the first leg
I think they should make an exception in the case of Kevin Friend, and just make him wear a massive **** hat.
No mate, you’re not. Regardless of the result you’re getting bummed sideways for the rest of this month.
