OttawaSaint

England just got an equalizer ruled out. Ridiculous really. They need to run it like ice hockey. If the video replay isn’t clear then the original decision stands. Was not clear that she handled the ball, so goal should have stood. Just now the ref blew her whistle late while a free kick was in the air, everyone stopped and the ref just continued like nothing happened. What a ****show!

This, rather ridiculously has passed on to the pub league level too. I was fouled in the box, fell but stumbled back to my feet. Ref said "no pen". I asked why, he said it was because I didn't stay down. I asked if he thought it was a foul he said "oh yes definitely, but go down and make it look good next time" he said. Ridiculous, now we have players crying out and rolling over. Ugh.

Ah ok. Only saw it once and was wearing my Maple Leaf tinted specs...

Swede keeper was just as much ahead of her line as the Scotland keeper but no retake. I don’t mind VAR but it’s going to be consistent.

It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out in the EPL. I worry that this makes it easier to favour the big teams. I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread that the big upsets usually have an element of luck about them. I can just see officials absolutely itching to help the big team with borderline calls on penalties and penalty retakes.

The offside rule has been ****ed around with so much it’s a total mess with many different interpretations on what interfering with play means or doesn’t mean, phases of play etc. Used to be so simple. Now we have VAR and almost every decision is interpreted differently by different people. You are totally correct, next season will be a total cluster ****.

A keeper will almost certainly get sent off. “To the viewers still with us, the scheduled episode of star trek will take place at a later date....it’s 2-2 in this shootout, the game started 3 hours ago and we are waiting on the VAR decision. Oh dear, a retake and red for the English goalkeeper, I say goalkeeper, this is the 2nd outfielder who has had to step in...oh and another delay for them to repaint the goal line, it’s getting a lot of action...stay tuned!”.

It’s a total farce. They took 5 minutes to decide if it was a penalty and then 10 seconds to say she didn’t have one foot on the line. We didn’t see any close ups (on TSN anyway) but it looked like her save was legit anyway. It is very unlikely a keeper saves a retake due to being so preoccupied with not encroaching again. This is worrying and a great way to make corruption a bit easier. Scotland balked up a comfortable lead but they didn’t deserve that, and they certainly didn’t deserve the ref blowing forvfull time even though they took ages to decide on the penalty.

Another ludicrous penalty retake. ****ing nonsense. What a mess this new rule is.

I watch a fair amount of MLS and often games go on really long due to multiple VAR decisions. Not uncommon to see games reach 100 minutes. Could be a pain for those that have trains to catch etc.

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Agreed 100%. It's done more harm than good.

Mid size.

Interesting. They are in the same division as Ottawa. They have a decent young roster too.

Rumour has it that we've already sold it to Liverpool...

Yessssss promotion clinched!

Ugh oh, how Saintly! 2-1

3 wins in 23, so he should keep his job because he is black? I'd understand if he'd got them top half and got sacked but we ditched Hughes, Pelligrino and Puel after dreadful runs of form, are we discriminating against the Welsh, Argentinian and French?

Get the candles ready in Liverpool. 97pts for second place. City 4-1, brilliant free kick!

3-1 city. Title is theirs.

Is this really your latest troll attempt. Give it a rest man.

Not at the moment they’re not...

2-1 City!!!!

What did he do?