The clear and obvious definition hasn’t changed. By your definition of it being understandable that the ref has missed it in real time VAR wouldn’t be used for 99.9% of the season.
What has changed is the phrase “use of readily available evidence” that means don’t spend ages analysing every...
It doesn’t matter what it looks like at full speed and one single viewing it’s what the readily available evidence (to use the PLs own words) shows, that showed the ref had made a clear and obvious error so he was rightly called to the screen. Even with the monitor not working properly the...
Cundy doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The PL only want VAR to intervene when there has been a clear and obvious error after reviewing readily available evidence. This is a prime example of the new rules working perfectly. There was no/minimal contact instigated by the Everton player, never...
If you watched any stream of the match he would have been the co commentator. His comments about the pen and it being over turned were ridiculous and definitely coming with the wrong colour blue tinted specs on. Thankfully he was a lot more pragmatic and realistic about the potential handball...
Not really. He’s played 45mins of pre season. His last football before that was in June before the Euros. He’s more than likely missing a bit of match fitness.