PinnerPaul
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I know, I know but bear with me!
He obviously didn't agree with penalty decision, but his interview was interesting and damning of VAR at the same time.
Pre VAR days, he said he would have still disagreed with the pen decision, but would have accepted it as pull although outside the area WAS difficult to spot at full speed from the referee' s position and complicated by the attacker's fall inside the pen area after the tug. He accepted that all these factors made it difficult for the referee. However what he couldn't accept was the referee giving it after getting a 2nd/3rd look at it.
That's the problem in a nutshell I think, it has actually made people in the game more resentful of 'wrong' decisions, partly because they were sold the 'dream' that they would disappear with VAR.
He obviously didn't agree with penalty decision, but his interview was interesting and damning of VAR at the same time.
Pre VAR days, he said he would have still disagreed with the pen decision, but would have accepted it as pull although outside the area WAS difficult to spot at full speed from the referee' s position and complicated by the attacker's fall inside the pen area after the tug. He accepted that all these factors made it difficult for the referee. However what he couldn't accept was the referee giving it after getting a 2nd/3rd look at it.
That's the problem in a nutshell I think, it has actually made people in the game more resentful of 'wrong' decisions, partly because they were sold the 'dream' that they would disappear with VAR.