That is still the most ridiculous decision I’ve ever seen!! 
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The presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, was at that match. In the following week’s Top Gear, Richard Hammond commented that, “(Jeremy) decided to go to South Africa and watch a Dutchman kick a Spaniard in the heart.”
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All joking aside, he could have seriously hurt our lad Xabi! It was sheer intention to injure.
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I suppose the worst was the Toni Schumacher foul in the 1982 World Cup which didn’t even result in a foul, despite leaving a player in a coma.
Oh fuck yeah! I’d forgotten that one. He nearly decapitated the player! Just found this quote
'The incident and Schumacher’s initial comments led to widespread condemnation, particularly in France, where a newspaper poll even ranked him as the least popular German, with Adolf Hitler in second place. ’
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Maybe that’s the problem though: that it actually is a monopoly?
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I remember seeing that on a World Cup retrospective VHS when I was a kid. Absolutely unbelievable. He put Battiston in a coma, knocked two of his teeth out and broke a vertebra.
Schumacher insisted he went for the ball, and after the game he was told Battiston lost two teeth, and he said ‘Is that all? I’ll pay for the crowns’
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Yea I read that earlier! Unbelievable!
To be fair the national front (Yeah same thing they swapped their names around) still polled about 20% even then.
Sorry, what?
You said they rated him worse than Hitler but the far right has a following in France and has for some time so isn’t entirely surprising
But it isn’t. If Oliver can moonlight in UAE, foreign referees can officiate PL games. It isn’t even that uncommon in minor European leagues.
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That was far from the point mate! Anyway…moving on.
It was just a coming together. Batiston entered Schuey’s space
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Yeah indeed, but I’m afraid that the insular mentality will prevent that.
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The latest yeah, no, but … VAR couldn’t intervene and were just discussing it for shits and giggles…
‘Van Dijk goal should’ve stood but VAR right not to intervene’
Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed goal for Liverpool against Manchester City on Sunday should have stood, the Premier League’s Key Match Incidents panel has said, according to The Times.
However, the KMI also states that VAR was right to not overturn the onfield decision.
The panel disagreed with official Chris Kavanagh’s verdict the Reds defender Andy Robertson was impeding City goalkeeper Gianluigi’s Donnarumma’s view while in an offside position.
Despite that, the VAR was implemented correctly given the circumstances, as it cannot overturn an offside decision like this where a player is penalised for obstructing a member of the opposition.
But that isn’t what happened.
We all heard Michael Oliver say he agreed with the lino and it a line of sight issue, and it was the correct decision. He actively involved himself in the decision and confirm it.
We did not hear Michael Oliver tell the referee he couldn’t get involved in the decision because it isn’t in VARs remit.
And this is the biggest frustration with VAR. It is a grand operation in gaslighting. It’s that’s simple. Every fucking week we’re told believe something that our eyes can see and our ears can hear isn’t true.
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So, the Webbs are not so nice people, dismissing complaints of bad behaviours. Partners in notoriety, who would have thought.
Edit: Added article from The Guardian
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Good process, fellas.
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This is what is driving me crazy.
Taken completely in isolation from the specific incident, Webb’s explanation and the resulting Key Match Incident Panel opinion, is at the heart of football. Some, most, decisions are neither right nor wrong and being a football fan requires you come to terms with that. It is now part of the VAR discourse to explain and reexplain why VAR is not getting involved in those cases.
But that was not this case so the argument Webb is using is bullshit. The lino was shown to have not seen the incident clearly. His interpretation of the impact of Robbo’s action is invalidated by the demonstrated falsity of his opinion that Robbo was in keeper’s vision of the ball. Making a decision on the wrong information is precisely the scope VAR has carved out for itself and they are still circling the wagons to defend the decision and doing so by saying thigs that we all see are objectively wrong. It’s almost like official involved is viewed as untouchable.
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