| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. 22:50 - May 14 with 2959 views | 12th_Man |
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| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 23:03 - May 14 with 2844 views | wkj |
Referee followed the letter of the law, he made the correct decision according to the rules, that said not many do make the correct decision as its a bit of a dumb rule. |  |
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| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 00:11 - May 15 with 2717 views | Superfrans |
| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 23:03 - May 14 by wkj |
Referee followed the letter of the law, he made the correct decision according to the rules, that said not many do make the correct decision as its a bit of a dumb rule. |
Is it a booking? I’ve never seen a booking for taking a step forward off the line - and seen many far worse cases than that. There will be many many cases where this happens in the World Cup and no action is taken, unless this is a brand new direction.
That’s just scandalous. |  |
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| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 04:43 - May 15 with 2621 views | wkj |
| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 00:11 - May 15 by Superfrans |
Is it a booking? I’ve never seen a booking for taking a step forward off the line - and seen many far worse cases than that. There will be many many cases where this happens in the World Cup and no action is taken, unless this is a brand new direction.
That’s just scandalous. |
It is a caution if a goalkeeper leaves his line, but liek I said most do not enforce it with a card even though if they're being a jobsworth they can | |
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| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 07:38 - May 15 with 2382 views | Johnny_Boy |
| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 23:03 - May 14 by wkj |
Referee followed the letter of the law, he made the correct decision according to the rules, that said not many do make the correct decision as its a bit of a dumb rule. |
What we don't know is, had the GK been doing this continuously during the penalties? Had he been cautioned prior to the 2nd yellow. Its incredibly harsh. Commentators 'insist' his foot was still on the line as the ball was struck - but it's difficult to see that for myself from the camera angle. |  | | |
| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 08:09 - May 15 with 2324 views | GeoffSentence |
| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 23:03 - May 14 by wkj |
Referee followed the letter of the law, he made the correct decision according to the rules, that said not many do make the correct decision as its a bit of a dumb rule. |
No he didn't. Slow it down and you can see that the keeper was on the line when the ball was struck.
Even if he had been right, to send the bloke off for something so marginal is ludicrous. Look at the physical assaults people get away with week in week out, and then you see this lad getting his marching orders for nothing other than good goalkeeping.
Those Irish lads, and the keeper in particular were robbed. |  |
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| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 09:25 - May 15 with 2215 views | Superfrans |
| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 09:21 - May 15 by Swansea_Blue |
That's the money shot. He's still on his line, or close enough that you'd need to forensically examine it to work out whether he was off it. Looks worse that it is as he's well on his way - a bit like a perfectly timed break of an offside trap makes the attacker look way offside when he receives the ball.
Poor decision. |
I understand the argument that it is the letter of the law.
But if the letter of the law is rarely if ever implemented (including in the same penalty shoot-out, which appears to have been the case) and unless the players have been warned in advance that this rule in particular was going to be strictly enforced, this is incredibly harsh. | |
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| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 09:33 - May 15 with 2170 views | GeoffSentence |
| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 09:25 - May 15 by Superfrans |
I understand the argument that it is the letter of the law.
But if the letter of the law is rarely if ever implemented (including in the same penalty shoot-out, which appears to have been the case) and unless the players have been warned in advance that this rule in particular was going to be strictly enforced, this is incredibly harsh. |
Letter of the law or not, he didn't come off his line before the ball was kicked.
To miss an infringement in real time is a forgiveable error, to find one that wasn't there is, at best, incompetence. | |
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| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 09:34 - May 15 with 2169 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 09:25 - May 15 by Superfrans |
I understand the argument that it is the letter of the law.
But if the letter of the law is rarely if ever implemented (including in the same penalty shoot-out, which appears to have been the case) and unless the players have been warned in advance that this rule in particular was going to be strictly enforced, this is incredibly harsh. |
I'd understand that argument it if it could be clearly proven he'd broken the rule. But it's not obvious. The frozen pic shows his foot could be on the line (it certainly wouldn't have been possible fo the ref to know it wasn't). And then it depends what 'on the line' actually means - is it his foot that matters, or his body position or the fact that he's started moving?
You're right though - even if that was a clear cut case, it seems incredibly harsh unless he's had a prior warning.
I blame Bruce Bruce Grobbelaar. |  |
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| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 09:45 - May 15 with 2126 views | RedX |
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| Thats an absolute shocker from the ref. on 11:47 - May 15 with 2004 views | wkj |
The thing is, the still shot vs the motion shot don't compliment one another, the referee saw a lunge where as the freeze frame shows the keeper complicit- It is a bad rule, the referee didn't see what we saw on freeze frame, he followed the rules in his head, but forensically it was harsh. | |
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