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UEFA stands down VAR official after Newcastle handball (www.espn.co.uk)

submitted 9 months ago by tylerthe-theatre@alien.top to c/talk@soccer.forum

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[–] stevehuffmagooch@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When the on field ref gets called over to the monitor it’s almost always going to get overturned. VAR knows this and going by the current rules, not by what is sensible, VAR should not prompt him to check again unless they are convinced of a clear and obvious error. This was one of the worst calls I’ve seen and it took shared incompetency to get there

[–] MarginOfCorrectness@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I don't get this logic. I think the call for PSG is horrible (that should never be a handball) but such incidents have been consistently called for years now. I don't understand why Reddit has decided it was the worst call ever. If you think so, you aren't watching games every week where such calls happen all the time.

I strongly believe we need to change the handball rule. In particular, we should award indirect freekicks only unless it was fully deliberate (like Suarez at the WC). But again, the call on the PSG game was very much in line with calls we have seen every week over the last 2 years.