Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [30th November - 3rd December 2018]

I'm struggling to see any hard contact on Son there...what am I missing?
 
First time I saw the replay I didn't notice the contact, must have been quite slight, but if there was contact it's the right decision

To me it just looked like he slipped.
 
Purdy said:
Clipped his standing leg when trying to change direction, doesn’t take much to knock someone over
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It wasn't a clip, and it doesn't take much, but it takes something. he literally brushed the outside of his foot, there was zero force, Son's foot didn't move at all, not even half an inch from the contact. The only reason he went over was he chose to go over, and the only reason he was off balance at all was he was changing direction and just chose to flop when he felt the brush of contact. Not even close to a penalty.
 
Sui said:
First time I saw the replay I didn't notice the contact, must have been quite slight, but if there was contact it's the right decision

To me it just looked like he slipped.
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Contact doesn't equal a foul or a penalty. It's like when, I forget who it was, Ronaldo maybe or was it an Atletico player, I can't recall, someone literally patted the other guy on the back and he threw himself down. Contact has to be meaningful and be able to cause someone to fall over. if you gently caress another players cheek.... and they throw themselves down it's a dive. If you shove someone and they don't try to stay up that is entirely different.
 
Kelt said:
Looks like it...wonder how VAR would see it.
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It would probably still go down to the judgement of the referee but the laws of the game talks about "contact that impedes an opponent", all I saw was minute contact at best and a mostly simulation. If it was cricket they'd need to use snick-o-meter to see anything there.
 
Kelt said:
Looks like it...wonder how VAR would see it.
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You wonder how that supposed diving review panel would see it, except like every time referees announce something new to push for more fairness at the start of the season, 2 months in and no one ever hears about it again. Cracking down on two footed tackles a couple years back, a bunch of extra red cards early in the season and before xmas people were jumping getting away with nasty tackles over and over again. I mean there are still plenty of reds for that but they went crazy with the number of reds for a short period then the extra monitoring of it disappeared.

personally I would think on var a decently sensible person would see the brush on the outside of the foot, Son's foot not move and his delayed flop and give a yellow for a dive.
 
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