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Vital Youth Team
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All the sports currently using this type of technology rely on the off field officials to make the decisions. But the others are talking about real factual decisions that cannot be argued with. Football is slightly different in most cases as one might think foul whereas another might not.
In yesterdays case, the freekick for the 1st goal was clearly a bookable dive and it is a little disappointing he got away with that. But the penalty was most certainly a penalty, I couldn't understand why the pundits wanted to court controversy about it. And today at work there is no one who thought it wasn't a penalty. So three pundits and one on here who is very often wrong seems to think it a penalty shows football to be different to other sports.
I don't think we should be having VAR, this World Cup has shown it cant work consistently.
Lineker suggested more than once during this world up that the word deliberate is the problem.
In this instance the defender does move his hand towards the ball. I'm not saying he did it on purpose, only he knows that, but you couldn't argue he didn't. However, that aside,that ball was going across the face of the goal, the French touch was minimal and did not deflect the ball so as contact was unavoidable. Clear penalty, the referee rightly corrected his original error.
How many actual deliberate hand balls do you ever see in football? If this one is not a penalty then hardly anything is a penalty!!
I think it would be very easy to predict the reaction on here should the Latics have such a penalty turned down in any game, let alone a big game.