Because they aren’t arrogant enough already, obviously.
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Noticed a snappy headline earlier about English referees…
“Three Lines On Their Shirt”
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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 ‘worst VAR decision ever’ suspended indefinitely
Story by Scott Trotter
The officials responsible for what has been deeemed the ‘worst VAR decision ever’ 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 Paweł Raczkowski, give no reason to mistrust VAR’s 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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That’s the one I was thinking.
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Southampton penalty
‘contact started outside the box but continued in the box…’
Never heard of this before. Is this how it works (in England)?
If so it’s another thing that gets overcomplicated.
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It was outside the box…you could see on the replay…but they had to try n swizz us out of a win…how wrong could they be…
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Anyone got a replay of that shirt pull on Mac Allister? They didn’t show it on my TV and it didn’t 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 didn’t overrule the decision.
It’s 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 didn’t want to interfere unless it was a complete brain-fart.
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This looks like Robbo’s 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 women’s team got robbed the same way.
It was a minor miracle that Gravy didn’t get his leg broken by the horrendous lallana tackle only a yellow.
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Its not where Robbos foot its where the attackers foot is which was before the line.
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But no one commented on the Southampton guy pulling Robbo back…dubious pen…and the VAR mind games didn’t work…
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Look again. His foot is definitely planted on the line…but let’s celebrate the win. That’s the most important thing today.
I was so impressed with that young lad though. Only 18 and English. Looks like a really exciting prospect.