Handball rule and VAR

As much of a cúnt as George Cain was, is, and will forever be, he was on his own. The decision is the decision: bad luck, because he thought there was contact and made his call accordingly.

In the case of Palace, they've looked at it three times. The ref saw it as it happened, VAR had a look, and then the ref was called over to the screen at the side of the pitch.

Either the ref, and the people running VAR are blind, stupid, or both; or they are being told to interpret the 'deliberate handball' rule in a particular way, ignoring the 'deliberate' part of it. In which case, the VAR and the ref are making the correct decision based on what they are being instructed to do, but the law is so, so wrong.

 

I'd rather have Trevor Kettle referee our games all season long than suffer VAR.

 

I think VAR would benefit us - it’s the new handball rule that’s ridiculous

 

As said on here by numerous people football is not perfect and that is what makes it exciting.How on earth as it benefitted us when before we had the odd bad decision which every body forgot about two days later.Now theres a clanger dropped in nearly every televised game.And as for rules being ridiculous (hand ball) what about offside and now the goalkeeper coming off the line.I will bet that 90% of saved penalties will have to be taken again as its near on impossible for a keeper not to move unless he makes no attempt at all.But more important is as said before is the atmosphere and the players and fans emotions.With a bit of luck now managers and pundits have started spouting instead of being scared of losing their jobs if they pulled it down things might change.

 

Steady on, let’s not be too hasty

 

If Spurs hadn't been so wasteful it wouldn't have mattered. You knew what was going to happen when Newcastle started launching balls into box for Andy Carroll and Carroll chased after the referee every time the ball went near a Tottenham player.

As for Bruce apologising. That's what he was after. They were never going to score in a month of Sunday's.

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

 

Noooooooooooooo

 

Yeah, TalkSport alluded to this yesterday. It's madness if so: train your strikers to kick the ball at the defender's arms from point-blank range in the box. Penalty, by the laws of the game, every single time.

 

that’s obviously what they’ve all been told to do...!,,

 

It explains the Newcastle tactics towards the end of the match. They were trying to win penalties. Mind you. Tottenham started doing it too instead of concentrating on putting the game to bed. Boudiwijn out wide was biggest culprit.

 

It not sure that would help us though. I mean, if you can’t hit a target that’s 8feet x 8yards,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

Not to mention that you actually need to get the ball into the box. Not one of our strengths at the moment.

 

VAR was brought in for the right reasons, to redress obvious errors, not to create controversy. The handball fiasco is the 'Devil's spawn' of VAR and to a lesser extent so is the offside ruling. Hand ball should should be based on intent and gaining/denying an advantage, brushing a fingernail is not handball. The ref should make an on field decision and the VAR bloke can ask him to look at the monitor to review his decision, but ultimately it should be down to the referee. As for offside when a decision takes 5 minutes to assess a player is offside in size 9s but not size 8s the benefit should always be that of the attacker. Sadly even when the managers, players and fans are collectively 'up in arms' it is no guarantee that the governing bodies will do anything.

 

Can’t wait to see the new Nike kits released next season, no sleeves to them. Just one long pull over so you’ve got players running around looking like a Seal.