Of the directions for this take us in, post-game drug testing of the officials seems like the least productive in terms of what is actually wrong. It would also give the PGMOL to pretend the lack of positive tests means they had eradicated the problem and nightmare from the Coote saga is now over.
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It would be great. Thereâd be three lads dangling off Mo Salahâs neck and the ref would be laughing and shouting play onâŚ
Oh. Hang onâŚ
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Not sure that is what it isâŚ
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Yeah, it is. It makes you an arrogant dick, but it gives you energy and confidence.
Thereâs a reason itâs so popular in the financial services sector.
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Because they arenât arrogant enough already, obviously.
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Noticed a snappy headline earlier about English refereesâŚ
âThree Lines On Their Shirtâ
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Isaak was given offside for Sweden for this razor tight decision
The problem is, this pass was not the one that plated it Isaak. This pass played the ball into the feet of the Gyokeres who turned and then played the ball through to Isaak as shown in the image below.
Good process lads
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Two officials behind âworst VAR decision everâ suspended indefinitely
Story by Scott Trotter
The officials responsible for what has been deeemed the âworst VAR decision everâ have been suspended.
Pawel Malec and Daniel Stefanski have been stripped of their responsibilities and banned from working in matches organised by the Polish Football Association indefinitely. The pair were in place as Video Assistant Referee and Assistant Video Referee and chose to rule an Alexander Isak goal out for offside when Sweden faced Azerbaijan in the Nations League
The decision-making process saw the goal awarded before Malec reviewed the effort. The official drew lines across the pitch that showed Isak to be marginally offside when Viktor Gyokeres, who was onside, received a pass in the build-up to the strike.
Isak however, was then clearly onside when played the ball by Gyokeres on the left wing, before appearing to make the score 4-0. Referee PaweĹ Raczkowski, give no reason to mistrust VARâs decision, ruled the goal out.
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Not the worst.
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I think failing to understand the onfield decision, and disallowing a perfectly good goal was a bit worse.
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The Dias one is definitelely the worst. The Isak one is no different to similar ones we have suffered several times.
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Thatâs the one I was thinking.
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Southampton penalty
âcontact started outside the box but continued in the boxâŚâ
Never heard of this before. Is this how it works (in England)?
If so itâs another thing that gets overcomplicated.
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It was outside the boxâŚyou could see on the replayâŚbut they had to try n swizz us out of a winâŚhow wrong could they beâŚ
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Anyone got a replay of that shirt pull on Mac Allister? They didnât show it on my TV and it didnât look so harmless during live feed.
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The dive also started outside the box.
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No. It can for holding, but obviously doesnt make sense for a trip which happens at a discrete spot. It didnt make sense when our commentary shared that as the reason they had been given, but the wording coming from the official VAR account is a bit different. It says it cannot rule out that the contact occurred in the box (on the line counts) so didnât overrule the decision.
Itâs still difficult for me to see how VAR didnt clearly demonstrate it was outside the box, but its at least a more understandable explanation.
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You have to wonder whether VAR would have overturned the decision and awarded a penalty had the on field ref awarded a free kick. I somehow doubt it.
The contact looked clearly outside the box to me. It was a relatively inexperienced ref, so I wonder whether Oliver didnât want to interfere unless it was a complete brain-fart.
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This looks like Robboâs foot is in contact with the line. As the line counts as part of the area that looks like a penalty to me albeit by millimetres.
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They did the same thing when our womenâs team got robbed the same way.