Well then, maybe explain to me what he's doing with his hand as he looks directly down? Perhaps a fcuking jumping jack? He's not jumping, he's on the way back down. Stop making shite up and admit you got it wrong; at least that way you'll only look like half a donkey...
......Can see Dudes point, one challenge per side, any decision, any time......
Oh, still ball-to-hand.
No question thats a handball
Yoda: walk away from the device. Go straight to the bathroom, look in the mirror. Hold up right hand, show all five fingers. Take right hand, strike yourself hard across your right cheek, and say to yourself, "I'm an idiot, I'm ugly, and nobody likes me".
...with all due respect.
LOL, clearly "no question", except almost nobody thinks so, except those that do. Very conclusive.
well you guys have to make a decision soon....the crowd are getting restless, some players have got back to their hotels....so is it a penalty or not?
Let them play. Let them battle and decide it on the pitch in open play. Try your hardest to not give a red or PK. Unless it’s so obvious you have to. That’s pretty much it.
Sorry @LION but @SirM has put a moratorium on posts longer than 5 lines; I'm afraid your thoughts will have to be shared elsewhere...
Anyway...
Definitely agree with this and, I think, for the most part, top officials have the "game sense" that you are referring too.
Tough on the free kick goal, in real time I thought it was a foul. One look at a replay showed that there was no contact, but, from the angle the referee was at, it is easy to see how it was called. The Croatian defender is closing Greitzmann fast, everybody is anticipating contact and I don't think it was a total dive from Greitzmann. If you watch the replay you can see the turf kick out from under his right boot, clearly he has slipped, and, given that he was playing for/anticipating the contact from the defender, he is ready to be fouled and when his feet go out from under him he sells it like any other player would. What I am saying is that if there had have been a challenge it would have, in all likelihood, resulted in a foul and no one would have been too put off by Greitzmann making sure the ref noticed. Difference being is that it wasn't a foul, it was just misfortune which caused him to go down initially. Definitely tough on Croatia, but hard to indict the referee too much on that one IMO.
As for the PK; clearly it is up for debate, which is EXACTLY the situation we would be in without VAR. We are never going to come to a consensus on was it or wasn't it, so we can stop the debate whenever we feel like it. This was a controversial moment, similar to many that have come before it and many that will come after. The mistake is thinking that VAR is going to "fix" this. That's not it's purpose and it should not have been used in this instance. Yes, Croatia feel aggrieved, but had he called it a penalty in real time I am sure the Croatians would have surrounded the referee in a similar manner to that of the French, drawing little boxes with their hands and pleading for a review. Perhaps VAR would have intervened and they would have denied the French a penalty and we would still be having the same debate. Point is VAR is not for "review"; it is for "clear and obvious" mistakes, which this was not. Growing pains for VAR, absolutely, but IMO it did not ruin the game. This was going to be contentious no matter what.