Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
You've left out a big chunk of the reasoning i gave. Thankfully, the ref, his assistants on VAR and apparently, the Ukrainian manager, agree with me.
It matters not a jot now. Bizarrely, it wasn't given. Some you get, some you don't, mostly because plenty of officials have no more idea than the average steward. But that doesn't mean it was the correct decision by any means.

I thought all the recent tampering with the handball and offside rules had made football complicated enough already, but now it's apparently not necessarily a foul when a player kicks his opponent instead of the ball. What a game!