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Liverpool v City is horrible to watch on 18:30 - Feb 8 by redrickstuhaart
If VAR get involved here with a perfectly logical and appropriate decision, I give up.
That is utterly utterly pathetic. Good common sense refereeing undermined.
[Post edited 8 Feb 18:31]
I agree the law is an ass in this case, but refs can't arbitrarily decide to not follow the laws just because they are daft. So it is the right decision, however stupid it might seem.
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Liverpool v City is horrible to watch on 18:36 - Feb 8 with 1497 views
Liverpool v City is horrible to watch on 18:36 - Feb 8 by iamatractorboy
I agree the law is an ass in this case, but refs can't arbitrarily decide to not follow the laws just because they are daft. So it is the right decision, however stupid it might seem.
The fact of the matter is VAR is shíte and with no VAR that goal stands.
Liverpool v City is horrible to watch on 18:36 - Feb 8 by iamatractorboy
I agree the law is an ass in this case, but refs can't arbitrarily decide to not follow the laws just because they are daft. So it is the right decision, however stupid it might seem.
They can- they can use common sense and no one would have complained.
Liverpool v City is horrible to watch on 18:37 - Feb 8 by SitfcB
The fact of the matter is VAR is shíte and with no VAR that goal stands.
But that would only be because the ref missed Haaland's blatant shirt pull in real time (and before that, Szoboslai's). If he'd seen both, he would have still pulled it back and sent Szoboslai off.
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Liverpool v City is horrible to watch on 18:48 - Feb 8 with 1309 views
Liverpool v City is horrible to watch on 18:46 - Feb 8 by iamatractorboy
But that would only be because the ref missed Haaland's blatant shirt pull in real time (and before that, Szoboslai's). If he'd seen both, he would have still pulled it back and sent Szoboslai off.
He may well have sensibly let it go to see if the goal was scored. Which it was.
He would have been rightly pilloried for blowing at that point, when the outcome was not yet clear, and could readily pull it back if there was no advantage.
Liverpool v City is horrible to watch on 18:44 - Feb 8 by redrickstuhaart
They can- they can use common sense and no one would have complained.
Which is what he did.
Screw VAR.
I don't think common sense is in the laws (I might be wrong). What I do think should be in the laws is a penalty goal, similar to a penalty try in rugby, when there is not just denial of an obvious goalscoring chance, but denial of a virtually certain goal. That would solve the problem here by awarding a goal regardless. (Of course, this adds further subjectivity but is surely more 'just' than a free kick and red card).
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