All I can say is it doesn’t really fall into clear and obvious lol Two shots I would say handball and two I would say no but they keep showing the one from behind where it looks like yes The Wolves player next to him looking at it did not claim so I would tend to trust that judgement going from my time on a pitch Every sympathy with that offside there but have literally all been there this season
We are playing Wolves on 23rd of January in the league. This game is going to be better because they are going to come out and attack us.
Clear and obvious doesn't apply to handballs in the lead up to goals, any contact with an arm should see the goal automatically disallowed.
Phew. That was a tougher game than I expected. But job done - which is what we do. We grind it out. We do look a little bit leggy which is to be expected - even VVD had a poor game yday.
This was a direct result of our statement game against Leicester. We put in loads in that game. We also struggled to carry Lallana but he at least came through with an assist.
We've had a few tight games of late but in most Salah has missed a sitter/chance he'd normally take which more often than not would make the game more comfortable. We can be quite wasteful of good chances.
Even though we benefited yesterday, I still think VAR is a disaster - destroying the spontaneous excitement that is an essential part of football for me. It's a sport, not a scientific experiment, and all this spurious "precision" is not helping at all. The millimetre decisions for offside are ridiculous, when the offside rule was only devised as an arbitrary rule to prevent blatant goal-hanging.
How much excitement would have been destroyed by Anthony Taylor's wrong decision to disallow our goal being allowed to stand? Everyone in the ground but him knew it was a shoulder and celebrated. He tried to destroy that but VAR corrected him.
To make it worse we are also appearing to use VAR in a more intrusive & far slower version than i've noticed in CL games .
I just don't share your view that everyone is out to get me/us. Some go for us, some go against us - just like it was before, only slower.