No Messi, no Barca. Eek. Also Coutinho off to Bayern, and still heaps of rumours that Neymar to Madrid is a done deal.
Believe in De Jong. He’s frustrated at their refusal to play 1-2s with him, he will make them see the light.
I'll repeat what I said during WWC--as constituted, VAR is an impending disaster for the entire sport
Talk about sucking the life out of the game. VAR is bad I agree, but it is a quadratic compound with interest bad with the new rules. At this rate I imagine the league will have at least 50+ pts given and taken away on marginal decisions. Turning all of last years handballs in the box into penalties regardless of intention is bad for the game. At this rate I would just coach players to shoot at outstretched arms in the box. You only have to graze it and you'll get a penalty, which percentages should go up now that the GK must be on the line.
Fake chip shots into someone’s arms is my favorite way to win a PK in rec leagues Just get scoop that bish up lol
Wow, really? It's a zero-tolerance rule AFAIC; if the ball touches the hand, even if it was accidental = no goal. Don't be like those plastic Citeh fans that wish that rule had been in effect for CL QF v. Spuds.
Its funny they brought it in to help City after last year, and if it had helped City v Tottenham they would talking about how its the best change to the system. Also, that Adrian assist for the Souths goal.Good grief that is Almunia levels.
Because the implementation sucks, and because it’s being used to essentially legislate rather than help regulate. There’s nothing wrong with using technology to improve the application of the rules. But now we’re using it to say balls that happen to touch a player’s arm is handling, or 1 millimeter offside is offside when it wasn’t flagged up initially. What happened to the idea of a ‘clear and obvious error’?
By rule, it wasn’t a handball. Edit: Is this supposed ‘rule change’ alluded to above real? Is any ball that hits arm a handball now? Jesus Christ it’s even worse than I thought.
How? Would you like a referee to interpret that a ball that was clearly handled in the penalty area, even with the help of VAR, according to him wasn't handled at all? To me the zero-tolerance aspect takes the guessing out of it. A referee doesn't have to interpret anything here: the ball is touched by a hand in the area, it's not a goal, period.
If a ball hits an arm it should be handball? Fvck me that will be a nightmare. I get the idea that removing subjectivity could be beneficial, but that’s not the way to do it. If an advantage is gained because it was handled then sure, but it’s just way too broad to say it’s handball if it touches an arm.
Also I’ve tried to find the actual language of the rule change and none of it says to me that this was the correct call, let alone that it would make one lick of sense.
Give me a break. There is absolutely nothing black and white about handball, and there is absolutely nothing black and white about VAR. Go get a Sharpie and draw a line on your body where your hand ends and your body begins. Go ahead. I'll wait. Now show me a football thats the same size as that line. So what happens when the ball hits the line?? Technology can't make that call. But it doesn't even matter because that's not even what's happening. With VAR, you still have humans looking at this crap on screen and making a judgement. That's even worse than technology, and it's worse than letting the referee decide. And it certainly isn't black and white. I'm not saying the above is what happened today, but you're fooling yourself if you think VAR eliminates interpretation.
Better one: How many times have Arsenal gotten screwed over by a blatant hand ball that the ref missed? And yet, if you're a Citeh fan, that grey area handball cost them a place in the CL SF. Would much rather have a zero-tolerance handball rule rather than once that's subject to a ref's call.