Not PL related directly, but the rules about handballs are really weird in CL. How do they give THAT as a penalty against Livramento. It came off his f***ing chest for God’s sake. Feel really sorry for him. I just feel it’s going to get even worse for defending teams once Wenger’s new offside law comes into the picture.
Hurts doesn’t it.
What comes up must come down, I guess
100% penalty
Referee screwed up big time. That ball would only not touch his arm if he was an amputee in that situation. Ridiculous
What we need to do then is sew the arms, into the top. That’s the only way to stop these ridiculous handballs as the refs and association are clearly ill equipped to deal with this
First time watching a european match eh?
Rival fans don’t watch our matches. We’ve conceded a penalty in every single CL match this season and 3 of them were bs handballs like tonight.
Media only like reporting united in crisis… according to Matt smith anyways!
I really wish the refs were mic’d up like rugby so we knew how he came to that decision.
No doubt id still be annoyed but it’s be nice to see the thought process.
“Good process boys”
Feel any better? Yeah… I didn’t either
Why are you posting this here? There’re different subs for a reason mate!
I’m watching the CBS post match show and the Referee rules expert is saying the IFAB rules don’t account for the deflection any longer. So the fact it comes off his chest first doesn’t matter.
Actually, UEFA’s rules for this season actually clarify that it’s not a penalty if it comes off another part of the player.
The constant changing of the rules and lack of consistency is something I really hate. I don’t even attempt to keep up now but it means fans and pundits are fighting an uphill battle every step of the way.
Rules as they are it’s clear as day that’s no handball. Any decent ref should be able to give that.
Stinks of ucl drama conjuring, no way on earth it’s a pen and that’s from a liverpool fan.
To provide a further unbiased perspective, it’s almost as daft as the pen given to us against Tottenham in the CL final. It’s bullshit.
It doesn’t matter if they do or not. The IFAB rules state it is only a hand ball if the players arm has made their body unnaturally bigger. This means to justify this penalty the referee has to be saying that Tino’s arm movement is clearly and obviously (VAR) not justified by the fact he is running. So the way his arm is has to not be considered a natural way to run. Which begs the question, how the fuck should a player run?
Yup, Tino’s fault. He grew arms.
Honestly at this point, you might as well aim for an arm rather than the goal
I would say that’s exactly what Dembele did, but it’s just as likely his atrocious crossing ability is at fault
I am convinced that was Sadio Mane’s intention the UCL final against Tottenham 😂
At least that makes sense when the defender leaves their arm in such an exposed and forced position.
This came immediately to mind
TRUE and it’s little wonder that players race after the ref after every ACCIDENTAL handball. Next it’ll be sin bins to prevent players exploiting refs and VAR’s inability to distinguish ACCIDENTAL from intentional handball, Level from Offside, and protecting the ball from deliberate attempts to hurt players. Have any of them ever actually PLAYED football ? VAR and officiating in general is a complete disaster now which is killing football.
It really looks like dembele does
Yeah it seems like that’s what psg were trying for
It sucks when every game is decided by weak fouls.
It’s annoying when Refs let you down…
It’s fucking bullshit! I’m not a Newcastle fan and don’t care what the result was but that decision was ridiculous. Same as the Fulham game last night and so many decisions this season in the Prem as well as Europe. it’s becoming unbearable. I hate it and it’s putting me off watching football
I’m a Geordie Gunner with primarily Newcastle supporting mates. I like to see the North East teams do well outside of Arsenal. This was so conflicting for me haha.