I haven’t seen it, so could well be talking bollox (and not for the first time!) but players are allowed to put their hands on other players. So there can always be a doubt when a player throws himself to the ground when someone puts their hands on him. Shirt pulling is different because it is never allowed. So if you can see a handful of shirt then the ref has no choice. Although it is often ignored by VAR, for some reason. Just VAR doing VAR things.
Refs and VAR at the World Cup
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I haven’t seen it, so could well be talking bollox (and not for the first time!) but players are allowed to put their hands on other players. So there can always be a doubt when a player throws himself to the ground when someone puts their hands on him. Shirt pulling is different because it is never allowed. So if you can see a handful of shirt then the ref has no choice. Although it is often ignored by VAR, for some reason. Just VAR doing VAR things.
The Maguire one the defender isn't even looking at the ball and has both arms wrapped around him as they fall to the floor.
It's a blatant penalty.
The Stones one is soft but it's a penalty too, I'm ok with that. Like you said, it's just when they seem to pick and choose when to intervene that does my head in.
I'd suggest watching the incident tbh as it's fairly cut and dry, the Iranian player has both arms around Maguire and wrestles him to the ground while Maguire is attempting to move towards the ball
That was a 100% penalty imo, have no idea how they could miss that. On the other hand I also thought Harry was climbing a bit too much at his assist. To summarise, there is no consistency at all.
edit: found a picture. Should be said Kane was also a bit aggressive in that situation.
“a bit”?
He has even locked his hands, looks like a professional wrestler more than a football player
The foul on Maguire was even more obvious yesterday. Incompetence or corruption
fifa stands for “fix it for argentina”
What is going on
According to that Dale Johnson guy, when it comes to VAR intervening in incidents like that (not neccessarily the ref giving the call in the first place) two of the factors they look at is whether the player is being stopped from playing the ball (so the proximity of the ball) and whether the player being held is holding his opponent in turn (at which point they're seen to cancel each other out). So that's presumably what they saw as the difference between the Maguire one and the others.
He still thought the Stones penalty shouldn't have been given by VAR as it's overly soft for an overturn, mind.
He still thought the Stones penalty shouldn't have been given by VAR as it's overly soft for an overturn, mind.
It’s the VAR’s fault for not sending the ref to the monitor. This whole thing of only sending the ref over if it’s a clear mistake is completely ruining things. Follow rugby’s lead and let VAR and the ref make a joint decision regardless.
The start of the World Cup has actually been really poor in terms of VAR. Some very dubious calls.
The England one was quite bad because its the same officials in the same game making 2 different decisions on the holding on a corner.
It made no sense at all.
The England one was quite bad because its the same officials in the same game making 2 different decisions on the holding on a corner.
It made no sense at all.
Only just seen the brief highlights of the Denmark-Tunisia match. Refreshing to see the on-field referee dismiss VAR's call for a penalty for an accidental handball: something we rarely see in the English game.
Edit: And the Mexico-Poland referee reverts to type in awarding a highly dubious penalty called by VAR.
Edit: And the Mexico-Poland referee reverts to type in awarding a highly dubious penalty called by VAR.
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Apart from Chris Beath, the Aussie ref in MEX-POL who lacked both vision and a clear line during the game, risking too hot emotions (both teams were surprisingly calm and mannered), the on-field refs were quite good today I'd say.
At least by old standards: German speaking pundits were all ranting about the loss of referees margins of discretion when the shoulder offside visualization was shown. Checked SRF, ZDF and ORF, all nostalgic of the old, traditional in dubio pro striker, as if that was the problem about the scene. Was that the same in UK and other places?
And, am I the only one to miss a background and a clear reference to what is shown in these offside ping animations?
At least by old standards: German speaking pundits were all ranting about the loss of referees margins of discretion when the shoulder offside visualization was shown. Checked SRF, ZDF and ORF, all nostalgic of the old, traditional in dubio pro striker, as if that was the problem about the scene. Was that the same in UK and other places?
And, am I the only one to miss a background and a clear reference to what is shown in these offside ping animations?
First bit goes against the laws of the game
LAW 5 THE REFEREE
5.3 Powers and duties
Disciplinary action
- punishes the more serious offence, in terms of sanction, restart, physical severity and tactical impact, when more than one offence occurs at the same time
https://www.theifab.com/laws/latest/the-referee/#decisions-of-the-referee
Could be, I haven't the foggiest notion.
There's a reason referees don't ref directly off the laws of the game alone. Without knowing what the battery of ever-changing interpretations, clarifications, directives and training that make up the de facto rules say the written laws only tell you so much.
At a glance I'm not even sure if that piece of law is supposed to apply to multiple offences by multiple players. It reads like it could be the rule as applied to multiple offences by the same player in a single incident. For example when a player commits a bad tackle, squares up to his opponent and then shoves him.
It does seem like the Maguire decision was a bit of an outlier when you look at the penalties given to Iran, Argentina and Poland though, so it would be interesting to know the rationale.
That is just the definition of the offside position (any time during the play, to use your words, and it is still not an offence by itself). I guess what you ask is: when being offside becomes an offence. As someone has already answered to your question: at the moment the ball is played towards the player who is in the offside position (or in your words, "released by the previous passer").
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Portugal’s penalty right now. Absolute fecking joke. Ghana should sue.
It's like being back in pre-VAR times. Nothing gets overruled anymore no matter how ridiculous.
If that Ronaldo penalty is not overturned, there's absolutely no point to it.
It's been an absolute farce from the start, it's made the game a lot more boring and frustrating and not at all more fair.
Just scrap it and give us our sport back, please.
It's been an absolute farce from the start, it's made the game a lot more boring and frustrating and not at all more fair.
Just scrap it and give us our sport back, please.
Messi gifted a penalty, now Ronaldo's turn to get a FIFA gift
The salt 
You think it's a penalty then?The salt
I’m not going to do that BUT…. it’s a 50/50 and footballs a contact game.The salt
Refs need to think “he’s running forward, apparently gets a touch and spins a circle to the left. Hmm?”
Not a pen for me
A problem is var seems to be all or nothing.
They should refer 50/50s and say ref you may be right but worth another look to check. Like rugby “I think it’s a try but worth a check”
But this is not a 50/50. The Ghana player plays the ball, barely touches Ronaldo who clearly dives. It's never a penalty by the laws of the game and for VAR not to recognize that after several replays is scandalous.
Wasn’t meaning specifically for this one (I don’t think it was a pen).
my point is if there’s a shade of grey (regardless of whether we think there’s any grey), why not give an on field decision and the ref OR VAR can say “but with a check”?
Union and League do it. Get 98/99 out of a 100 big calls right.
The Felix goal looked offside too
VAR was overzealous when first introduced, and now they've overcorrected *far* in the other direction.
This is what it used to be like before VAR. One awful decision after another and pray they get canceled out. I don't see it as an argument to abolish video review but to make the guidance about it more sensible. The on-field ref gets too much deference now. And I don't like how a tiny snippet of zoomed-in, slowed-down video is the only thing shown on screen when they do try and overturn.
IMO the only good argument to abolish VAR is what it has done with the handball rules.
FIFA needed to give Pessi and Penaldo their goals in their first games.
The Leao goal looked even more offside.
Clueless.The salt
Michał Listkiewicz (ex international referee) in polish TV:
-no positional advantage of Ronaldo
-soft contact
-dive
-never a penalty
He has also mentioned that earlier in the game Ronaldo's goal should have counted.
-no positional advantage of Ronaldo
-soft contact
-dive
-never a penalty
He has also mentioned that earlier in the game Ronaldo's goal should have counted.
I'm so glad TheCaf aren't refs. Too many emotions put into decisions. I get it...you don't like Ronaldo right now. But don't let your feelings about him rule your judgment on the call. Truth is, that was a play in which if the ref calls it, VAR won't overrule it. However, if the ref doesn't call it, VAR again won't overrule it. It wasn't the wrong call. An argument can be made for why it was a penalty. It may be soft and Ronaldo may be looking for it, but that doesn't change the fact that the defender stepped in and didn't get the ball but did get Ronaldo. Truth is, it was a dumb play by the defender. Ronaldo is going away from goal. There is no reason to step in and give the ref a decision to make...
VAR is not over ruling anything. But VAR looks at every decision and they have the authority to say to the referee it may be better for him to have a slow motion look.
It may be a penalty or not. That's why VAR is there for. Not to referee the game.
A good article from The Atlantic about VAR and the ruled out Ecuador goal against Qatar: https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...ar-vs-ecuador-world-cup-opener-soccer/672243/
Wasn’t it a clear offside?
I simply cannot understand people's qualms with that VAR call. It's a clear offside that is just very difficult to spot due to the bouncing of the ball and due to the amount of people close to the initial aerial duel. But it is not "the narrowest of offsides".
Why not take for example Lautaro's goal against Saudi Arabia as an annoying VAR call? There only the tip of the shoulder was offside.