PSG Penalty against Newcastle

[Swanjaxs]

Given, even after the referee looked at it on review, absolutely incredible...

 

[exiledclaseboy]

All VAR has managed to do is highlight incompetence. How any referee looks at that replay and thinks “penalty” is beyond me.

 

[sainthelens]

Even the infamous Madeley giving Stoke the pen v us pails into insignificance compared to that.
Absolutely unbelievable how that was given tonight.
I made a claim on here few weeks back that corruption is rife but some posters shouted me down. Sorry guys, but after tonight you can fck off.

 

[Swanjaxs]

That decision is boarding on the corrupt, and it's not VAR that's the problem it's human error every time, the technology is there, the intelligence of the officials to implement correctly isn't.

 

[magicdaps10]

VAR bottled it, put the pressure on the ref and he bottled it.

VAR were the source, non footballing people making footballing decisions....recipe for disaster.

 

[Mork]

VAR only showed the ref the angle from behind and then kept freezing on the ball hitting the arm.
Should the ref have asked for another angle? I’m certain had he seen the one we’ve all seen he wouldn’t have given it.
The men upstairs f*cked that one up imo.

 

[Nocountryforoldjack]

Football is rigged fact

 

[J_B]

Should be viewed at normal speed. Continual slow motion replays of an incident like that will lead to the wrong decision because the speed of the ball coming off the chest onto the arm is discounted.

 

[Neath_Jack]

Does anyone know what the actual handball rules are?

 

[Swanjaxs]

So after potentially costing Newcastle United millions of pounds in revenue...



'Newcastle handball VAR official stood down from Champions League'

http://www.skysports.com/share/13018736

 

[EagleEye]

Given, even after the referee looked at it on review, absolutely incredible...

If a ref goes against the VAR review he is on his own. If he goes with it he has safety in numbers. It will take a lot of courage to disregard a VAR review decision hence there are no disagreements between on the field ref & VAR these days. How on earth VAR decided that was a penalty is farcical

 

[3swan]

BBC explanation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67562308

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In April, the Uefa football board - an independent advisory group - recommended that "Uefa should clarify that no handball offence should be called on a player if the ball is previously deflected from his own body".

Keith Hackett, former general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the English referees' body, told the Daily Telegraph that Uefa did not implement this recommendation for its own competitions.

"Last April, in their guidelines for the upcoming season, the Uefa board recommended that there should be clarity that no handball offence should be called on a player if the ball is previously deflected from their own body," Hackett said. "But this recommendation was not implemented - and Newcastle paid the price at the Parc des Princes."

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How on earth can we have different rules for top competitions

 

[Jack2jack]

Ridiculous. It's become a joke.