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So it was unconscious bias against the top team that led the referee to give a wrong offside decision that VAR had to correct?

So when exactly was the goal disallowed? The AR has disappeared on the sunny side but CK isn't signalling, whistling, or otherwise looking to give an offside decision. It's still very odd. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/cp8m3l1jk66o

I think I know what you mean! But if buffeting the GK at a corner was an offence, surely someone would already have had words about when two attackers do it at once. You may have to cut and paste - direct link is not allowed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX1-oKm1qXw&t=62s

It's a BBC poll. Maybe they should distinguish between respondents who thought it should be disallowed and those who wanted it to be disallowed - like the neutral sportswriters in that studio clip!

If he was told to raise his flag 1. Who told him to? 2. How long after? Is there a clip of the flag going up? It's at least four seconds after the goal. CK does not look as if he's expecting a flag. All quite odd.

A lot of things were accepted then that have been explicitly changed and others where interpretation has just changed.

Rather misses the point. One team calls the Time Out.

I think you young whippersnappers are just wumming us oldies. Seriously, the change was to speed up the game to allow a kick to be taken from anywhere in the GA, not to allow a GK to waste time. The opportunities for timewasting at a GK have increased with all this playing out from the back as...

Perhaps one AR could listen in to one team talk and the 4th official to the other... I wonder if anyone keeps stats on which teams have most GK injuries needing attention.

We're at the boundary of fandom, and what as a referee you would do if (say in successive games with the same team) at some point in the game the GK suddenly for no obvious reason sat down in his PA at a break in play, you called on the trainer / medic, and during treatment his manager called...

Gone way off topic about the number of substitutes! It's a cautionable offence to attempt to deceive the referee, e.g. by feigning injury ... If Raya had to be told to go down, it's feigned, surely.

So he wouldn't have been sanctioned if he'd shouted from the touchline? If the feigning is wrong, why does only the middle man in the deal get sanctioned?

Is it true that the young Arsenal sub Lewis-Skelly was cautioned for relaying the instruction to the GK to feign injury for a time-out?

Well, obviously because his captain was then out of position for a FK taken quickly from the wrong place. If you haven't cautioned the offender to have a word instead with the captain, and the captain doesn't oblige, to then caution the offender would be a bad look. In any case, whatever Mr...

Guardiola saying next time the ref calls the captain, the captain will say no, you come to me. That should be interesting.

It's a natural position if you're not expecting your opponent to kick the ball up in the air for no apparent reason.

Pedro kicked the ball onto the pitch, so that ball had to be retrieved before the throw could be taken, so did delay the restart.

I'll just throw in that the nuances of "excessive force" have accumulated, in order to try and define the undefinable. It was always an arbitrary thing - the disciplinary distinctions for "careless, reckless or using excessive force" were an afterthought. A bit more thought and "reckless" would...

Two cautions on that basis.

That's just research (or spying). No encroachment - which is an offence, even if not penalised if it doesn't affect the outcome of the PK.