Liverpool FC thread

Heard them trying to explain on MOTD 2 that it was because his arm wasn't extended away from his body, as say Dan Burn's was.

Mad decision, couldn't have been a more obvious peno to give IMO.

The West Ham penalty was a joke too!

Premier league full of brutal and inconsistent referee’s.

9fingers wrote: I’ve no idea what’s handball and what’s not anymore

This.

And it shows up the fundamental flaw with VAR, namely that it is meant to introduce certainty into officiating.

Which is fine if you're talking eg offside, in that the computer can draw a line and tell you whether the attacker has crossed it etc. (Though it still doesn't cover eg "actively involved", but that's another matter).

But the whole point of handball is that it is cheating i.e. someone intentionally using his hand/arm to gain an unfair advantage. And no computer can determine what's going on in a player's mind in the heat of the moment i.e. did he mean to control it, or could he not get his hand out of the way in time.

Which is why they're currently tying themselves in knots to come up with an objective test of whether the arm was in "a natural or unnatural position" etc. Which definition is plaainly inadequate.

Far better imo to let referees use their own (subjective) judgement and just accept that they may occasionally get it wrong. For at least that way, you don't have the the long, infuriating delay before VAR gets it wrong.

Apart from the fact that it didn't pick up the offside for Arsenal's first goal on Sunday. 

Think he is accused of saying something racist no? Which he disputes.