Did anyone else think that was a penalty...

[Trigger]

Re: Did anyone else think that was a penalty...

Refs know he goes down so easily so now he needs to get assaulted for a free kick. His own fault.

I wish he would add a bit more strength and get his feet sorted, runs and plays like Pistorius.

[Hilts]

Re: Did anyone else think that was a penalty...

Running over to refs in the 1st few minutes and yelling feck off in their faces doesnt help either.

[Loramski]

Re: Did anyone else think that was a penalty...

You’ve got a point. The ref and his two linesmen got the decision wrong, as did a ref and God knows how many more other officials watching it with plenty of expensive machinery bought to, in theory, ensure right decisions are always made - the fact that the human element in the VAR system failed, as it does too often, just renders all of that machinery irrelevant, all it’s doing is breaking up the game to provide decisions that the officials at the ground could have got wrong much quicker :hehe:

Missed a chance to nail this thread. My Lithuanian friend has just sent me a picture of her serving Yarmolenko and Mykolenko at Cardiff Airport on Monday. They were speaking Russian and she speaks it too, I could have been so in the know.

I'm not sure what happened with the officials by the way. Just as Zinchenko is lining up his shot the ref raises his arm in the direction of the linesman. I failed my body language o-level so I won't try to interpret the exact meaning of that but I'm guessing the ref was unsure, asks his linesman who then gives his reply just as the ball breaks to Zinchenko.

While the obvious conclusion is that the linesman is saying 'no penalty', the ref is an awkward position if he's said the opposite. He's going to enrage the Ukrainians if he blows for a penalty just as Zinchenko is launching his shot into the top corner (especially if VAR then says no penalty) but if he plays on and they don't score Wales will be enraged if he then gives the penalty, having played an advantage.

With VAR the ref should have the best of both worlds here. He can play the advantage as he wants, knowing that VAR can still award the penalty after. Unless Stevie Wonder is on VAR duty, of course.

[truthpaste]

Re: Did anyone else think that was a penalty...

I saw it on replay when i got home, as i saw it, Allen pulled his leg back to strike the ball and the Ukrainian came form behind him and got to the ball as he kicked it. No intent, and Allen didn't know he was there, just a footballing incident, no foul imo.

Yet with many of these handball decisions throughout the season there is no intent but the VAR decision is penalty.
So while I totally agree with you, to be consistent it should have been given.

Yet I remember 1977 and Anfield, and we've waited 45 years for a rebalancing of justice - so at last things have evened themselves up :thumbup: