I'm with you on that.
BTW, as mentioned earlier, the Iran goal wouldn't have stood anyway. The lino had already clocked the offside and flagged for it.
It was indeed.
It'd be interesting to see a montage at the end of the tournament of all the penalty shouts. It'll be fun to go through them and guess or try to remember whether the pens were given or not, to compare them.
Exactly. But this was always going to be the problem - one persons "blatant" is another ones "nah".
We've got even more inconsistencies now than before we ever had VAR.
With the Iran 'goal', the linesman actually already had his flag up before it even went to the review, so the goal would not have counted anyway. What he was checking was if he could allow it, but the lino had been spot on anyway.
He was jumping - everyone raises their arms for leverage.
The ball hit his arm from about a yard away, he couldn't even see it let along move his arm towards it. Its a terrible decision.