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Apparently not....there was no camera angle showing the offside player so VAR couldn't overrule the on field call
'apparently'?...more like 'conveniently'...when you consider the other half dozen or so fouls that either weren't given to Wolves or bizarrely given TO Liverpool...

Another question being, why doesn't a PL club have sufficient cameras to support the VAR?
 
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There's a head right under the scoreline there which is well onside before the ball is played back out, who's is it because the lino in that half of the pitch was on the other side.
Bent as ****.
I'll be honest, I think that I agree with you, but I don't completely understand what you're saying.
Bent as ****, though. Probably.
 
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No angles, my arse.

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Angles or not, why wasn't that a second phase of play? The defender clearly attempts a clearance and the ball comes back in as a totally distinct second pass. At the moment the goalscorer was (dubiously) offside, he wasn't interfering with play.
 
No angles, my arse.
So basically....
- The lino was clearly wrong, there was no offside.
- VAR took just a minute to determine there were no 'angles' to force them to overturn the decision. (Yet happily spent 5 minutes desperately trying to find a reason to disallow one of our goals this year)
- Liverpool benefitted...

Did I miss anything? <laugh>
 
Angles or not, why wasn't that a second phase of play? The defender clearly attempts a clearance and the ball comes back in as a totally distinct second pass. At the moment the goalscorer was (dubiously) offside, he wasn't interfering with play.
The goalscorer wasn't offside at any point. The assistant ref flagged the corner taker offside when the ball went back to him. The still that @PleaseNotPoll posted appears to show his head in a position where he must have been onside but it's hardly surprising if the VAR protocol requires the whole player to be in shot before they can overturn an infield decision. Without VAR the goal is disallowed anyway.
 
My point was that Mike Dean didn't disallow the goal. The assistant ref did
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Doesn't look like he did to me. No flag and heading back for kick-off.
Watch the ref on this angle, though:
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He tells the lino to put his flag up. He's in absolutely no position to do so.