It wasn't a penalty. The contact was completely accidental, a 50-50 coming together that wouldn't have been a foul, or reviewed, if it was in the centre circle. In fact, there's another issue. Let's say that precise challenge was in the centre circle. Ref waves play on, ball is in play, VAR...
it would certainly solve one of the situations I highlighted. Maybe they could also use current refs who are too fat to follow play properly like Jon Moss. I expect they'd have to either re-qualify or take a refresher or something though? Even then it doesn't fill me with confidence. Have you...
But isn't that exactly what continues our interest in the game? All those years later and you can still remember every second of those incidents and the anger and disappointment still lingers, Will you really feel the same about us getting a consolation goal in a 3-1 defeat in the round of 16...
Just from minimal experience playing pub football and occasionally reffing my son's team's training matches that sort of challenge happens all the time. In fact my son said "people tread on my feet all the time and I never get a foul". The ball goes and there's an accidental collision.
VAR is...