VAR, Refs and Linesmen | General Discussion

Pexbo said:
6 minutes.

Liverpool got 9 minutes at the weekend when they were chasing a goal when literally NOTHING happened in that half. They got 6 in the first half too when sod all happened. 15 minutes extra time!
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Was listening to an episode of It's Always Sunny podcast and it was funny hearing the three of them discuss how bizarre and arbitrary the added time is in football.
Just how we can't comprehend much of what goes on in America and they themselves can't explain either, so is the added time in football. There's no good reason anymore for why it's so seemingly random.
 
The Purley King said:
Didn’t see the game but watched post match goals on sky.
I don’t think spurs 4th goal should be disallowed.
Bayandir too weak and missed the ball anyway.
If that was chalked off against us even with var I’d be upset.
How he fuxking missed it in the first place should be the major concern for us.
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My my. Clear foul anyday. If that goal was chalked off against us, I would say its the correct call.
 
Look it's definitely a foul... a keepers arms are basically the equivalent of a players legs... if you put your arm out like that across someones legs as they were going to kick the ball it would be a very obvious foul.

However, I'm not too bothered by it because I'm also convinced that he wouldn't have saved it even if there was no one within 10 yards of him.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
100%. Couldn’t give a shit about tonight’s mistake if we could have started the season without VAR in every game. That would have been a huge improvement overall.
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I get the frustration with the VAR but iirc English referees were making so many mistakes before VAR it became ridiculous at some point imo. At least some of those mistakes aren't happening anymore. And some offside goals don't stand anymore for example. I like that.
 
A Late PEC Zwolle winner was ruled out today for offside. from a corner.

You can't be offside from a corner, derp.
 
KirkDuyt said:
A Late PEC Zwolle winner was ruled out today for offside. from a corner.

You can't be offside from a corner, derp.
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Did the player kicking the ball come into play. Was it an outswinger maybe drawing all the players out.
 
njred said:
Did the player kicking the ball come into play. Was it an outswinger maybe drawing all the players out.
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It was a short corner with both players sort of standing in the little corner box. VAR ruled the one that got the first touch after it was taken as offside.
 
KirkDuyt said:
It was a short corner with both players sort of standing in the little corner box. VAR ruled the one that got the first touch after it was taken as offside.
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So it wasn't the corner they were called offside for then
 
Video of it there - click the text part, not the play button, then watch it on X or else it takes you tot he ESPN website. Weird.



Weird incident.

You can't be offside from a corner because it's impossible pretty much anyway. The ball is on the goal line when it's taken, or not quite if you were to nitpick and include the quadrant so you can't normally be beyond it. However, it is written in the laws on top of that, just like you can't be from a goal kick or throw in.

Unusually he is beyond the corner taker here. Still, as you can't be offside he isn't.

The ball is still moving when the corner taker takes it, rolling from the momentum of him placing it down rather than a bit of wind or whatever - not legal if you wanted to be strict. That would be a re-take though and nothing to do with offside.
 
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Ref was called to the screen after giving a red card for this and still upheld the sending off.
 


Full version here - it has to be one of the worst decisions ever made.
 
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