One of the many things that annoys me about the newcastle incident, is people saying VAR can’t intervene on a handball as he didn’t score the goal.
But that’s not true VAR can say that it was a handball offence if they believe so, like in this video. The goal scorer handball rule is regardless of if it would be a foul otherwise. So the potential handball was totally swept under the rug when discussing the incident.
Similar with the excuses about not having angles for the offside and ball out of play. “well they didn’t have them so what could they do?” Never stopped them before.
And now the “independent” review means we should have to accept that Gabriel wasn’t fouled.
Not saying I agree with this but VAR will not rule on a subjective decision if the ref had clear view of the incident and made a decision.
Handball is subjective by the rules - it depends on arm position, depends on state of play, depends on it denies etc. - this means that it’s outside of VARs scope to make a decision if the ref has seen it because there’s no way to say it’s a clear and obvious error on a subjective decision.
Before I get downvoted I am not for a second saying this makes sense and is how the game should be played. I’m just saying this is what PGMOL will say.
One of the many things that annoys me about the newcastle incident, is people saying VAR can’t intervene on a handball as he didn’t score the goal.
But that’s not true VAR can say that it was a handball offence if they believe so, like in this video. The goal scorer handball rule is regardless of if it would be a foul otherwise. So the potential handball was totally swept under the rug when discussing the incident.
Similar with the excuses about not having angles for the offside and ball out of play. “well they didn’t have them so what could they do?” Never stopped them before.
And now the “independent” review means we should have to accept that Gabriel wasn’t fouled.
Not saying I agree with this but VAR will not rule on a subjective decision if the ref had clear view of the incident and made a decision.
Handball is subjective by the rules - it depends on arm position, depends on state of play, depends on it denies etc. - this means that it’s outside of VARs scope to make a decision if the ref has seen it because there’s no way to say it’s a clear and obvious error on a subjective decision.
Before I get downvoted I am not for a second saying this makes sense and is how the game should be played. I’m just saying this is what PGMOL will say.