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It can't be the former. Contact doesn't mean a foul. Indeed you did. It seems some didn't take note. Eh? It's not physicality we want to see, we just don't want to see diving. It's not quite that one-sided. Goal line technology and VAR have come in, not because the refs wanted help, but because...

I've only managed to see angles from behind the keeper, and it's impossible to be sure either way. Maybe there was minimal contact followed by a dive. Maybe there was slight contact which actually was enough to take him down. Unless it was clearly a dive, they shouldn't really overturn the...

Can you post a link to footage that shows she got it wrong?

Without VAR it would have been a penalty. With VAR, it was a penalty. And you think it's worse because you were tantalised. Ok. The way VAR is going to be used has been explained to us. We were told there would be decisions like this, where pundits think the decision should be overturned, but...

Would have still be a penalty without VAR, so it didn't make that decision worse.

That's a fair point, but actually for years we've seen video replays where they've looked at whether the striker is a foot ahead. It has now come down to much smaller margins. If it really disadvantaged them that much, then they'd simply have to change it. We're not going to put up with a boring...

In truth these close calls have always happened, but in the past the linesman has given their best guess as to whether it's offside or not. There would regularly be goals disallowed (or a 1 on 1 opportunity stopped by the flag before the goal) which when replayed looked like the benefit of the...

And at what point, in your opinion, is it clear and obvious? Put 'clear and obvious' in the rule book and you're going to get extremely different decisions in each game, as it gets interpreted differently. You need to come up with a specific rule.

I know. I think VAR can make the game better, you think it's the end of football (apologies if that's not quite what you've said, I don't remember the detail). Yes I accept it's not the same. The lino will still flag if he thinks it's offside. If he doesn't flag, loads of people will still...

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Agreed, and maybe we'll just have to learn to look at the game better, so we can judge whether something is likely to be ruled out. Some goals are nowhere near offside, and no one from the opposition has hit the ground, so they're really unlikely to be ruled out. We can see when it looks close...

Going down to an illegal goal is worse. It's not fair, it's not British. I'm still annoyed about Burney's penalty against us, when we should have had a penalty. Any time we score and the offside decision looks remotely close, I look at the linesman before celebrating. If he's on his way to the...