player gets between Mike Reid and the incident
Blimey, he's refereeing now? Thought he'd passed away!
I would agree - have to say I was a little surprised at the penalty award at first and looking at various replays has not changed my mind but I can see how the movement of Chambers' arm could potentially look like a deliberate movement to block the ball, even though I don't think it was. So although I didn't agree with it, I still wouldn't consider it that ridiculous of a penalty decision.No way is this a penalty, my first reaction given the distance and the way that the Chambers was tracking Gibbs that in his motion to try and stop himself due to Gibbs slowing up that it is ball to hand and no penalty should be awarded for this incident!
"If VAR had been in use, Mike would have made a more informed decision. He would have had the chance to see the reverse angle which shows the Arsenal defender was trying hard not to handle the ball."
Ah, but that gets conveniently buried when an opportunity to take a dig at the PGMOL/FA/higher level officials is presentedOf all People Padfoot I thought you would have realised that with your zero tolerance to language?
The use of VAR for decisions like this is ruining the game in A-League (Aus). People are being fed up with lengthy and confusing delays where a reviewed and changed decision is at time worse than the original one. They are trying to fix that now.Quite the contrary. PGMOL did put out a statement that SkySports and BBC quoted:
"If VAR had been in use, Mike would have made a more informed decision. He would have had the chance to see the reverse angle which shows the Arsenal defender was trying hard not to handle the ball"
The SkySports article can be found here: http://www.skysports.com/football/n...en-more-informed-by-var-admits-premier-league