The FA CUP Fourth Round ** Spoilers ** [26th - 28th January 2018]

[omnomnom]

Oh come on ffs. Its a penalty.

 

[chroniclard]

Commentators take 2 seconds to figure something out, VAR takes half an hour......

Not a fan so far (despite ruling that goal out)

 

[nemtizz]

I assume Klopp wanted VVD. Must have thought he'd have a impact, and he still might, but it's all about organisation, one player isn't going to fix your defence. Pretty naive.

 

[Robbo]

This is tragic

 

[el_dazza]

And it's missed. What a bizarre game.

 

[omnomnom]

Thats an absolute farce. Just give up already.

 

[Mark1989]

Lmao and we fluff the penalty, can't make it up. Still var took too long, whole point is video should make it quicker not increase length of time to decide

 

[nemtizz]

VAR will kill football.

 

[Combat Fighter]

After all that waiting missed the pen.

Quality!

 

[drunkenmaster]

At this point I feel like they are taking too long on purpose, I've seen both replays, how have they not, it's pathetic. Why on earth doesn't the ref prepare for wanting to look at it himself by moving over to it while waiting, if it's a pen he just has to run over there or run back. Why hasn't he run over to the screen either.

This all seems to be about making it seem bad.

Personally those replays I think there is a hand but Salah clearly tried to make it seem worse and for me it's a dive.

 

[fez]

VAR is a complete joke. That’s a complete bs penalty. Football is going to become stupid very quickly.

 

[Robbo]

What they don't realise is that pundits and "experts" never agree on things after watching 500 replays, the referees will have the same sort of issue. It's handy for huge incidents but it can't keep disrupting the game like this.

It's a laugh though.

 

[chroniclard]

VAR not looking great but 2 correct decisions.

 

[omnomnom]

At this point I feel like they are taking too long on purpose, I've seen both replays, how have they not, it's pathetic. Why on earth doesn't the ref prepare for wanting to look at it himself by moving over to it while waiting, if it's a pen he just has to run over there or run back. Why hasn't he run over to the screen either.

This all seems to be about making it seem bad.

Personally those replays I think there is a hand but Salah clearly tried to make it seem worse and for me it's a dive.

Its about as clear a tug of the shirt youll see.

 

[topher]

Never a pen, yes the defender put his hand on salah, but salah went to ground like he had been shot..

 

[Mark1989]

Salah should be taking that on first touch at that angle

 

[Shamikebab]

I did laugh at the "He's only gone and hit the VAR"

 

[Sui]

Never a pen, yes the defender put his hand on salah, but salah went to ground like he had been shot..

There's a clear pull down on the shirt.....anywhere else it's a free kick

 

[Kenai]

At this point I feel like they are taking too long on purpose, I've seen both replays, how have they not, it's pathetic. Why on earth doesn't the ref prepare for wanting to look at it himself by moving over to it while waiting, if it's a pen he just has to run over there or run back. Why hasn't he run over to the screen either.

This all seems to be about making it seem bad.

Personally those replays I think there is a hand but Salah clearly tried to make it seem worse and for me it's a dive.

There is certainly an element of it appearing to be implemented as deliberately poorly as possible. There is absolutely no need for these decisions to be taking several minutes at a time.

As for the incident, at this point we may as well just declare football a non contact sport, evidently touching another player these days is a foul as football players are unable to remain on their feet from the sheer force of a hand on their shoulder

 

[Shamikebab]

It's a shirt tug but he also dives. If the shirt tug is penalized then so should the dive.