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The whole decision making was a mess here. Was it a clear foul? No. Was it clearly not a foul? No again for me. A bit of tug on the shoulder, a bit of pull on the waist. A bit of leg tangle... Nothing clear and obvious there either way so original decision should have stood.
On offside, there was no interference with play . Possibly interfere with opponent by impacting his ability to play the ball. But because referee stopped play for foul, that offence (interfere with opponent) never occured and can't be considered on review.
Assuming the foul/no foul was not clear either way, we are in a bit of a pickle. Had referee not stopped play, it would have been offside but because he did stop play (and offside never occured) VAR can only judge/review the foul. A big mess. One that I don't think VAR protocol accounts for.
On offside, there was no interference with play . Possibly interfere with opponent by impacting his ability to play the ball. But because referee stopped play for foul, that offence (interfere with opponent) never occured and can't be considered on review.
Assuming the foul/no foul was not clear either way, we are in a bit of a pickle. Had referee not stopped play, it would have been offside but because he did stop play (and offside never occured) VAR can only judge/review the foul. A big mess. One that I don't think VAR protocol accounts for.