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Bruno Fernandes: “They should start making interviews after the game, so they could explain themselves. "They made a big thing of it last week [penalty]." ... (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kameecoding to c/football

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I want to see if they make a show of it like they did last week, also if Jon Moss also comes to our dressing room to apologise.

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[–] kameecoding 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Here is the replay: https://streamin.one/v/ebac5365

seems to me it's a very clear penalty, he lunges is hand is high up, no idea how this wasn't given.

[–] coys25 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, even though slow motion makes it look worse, I was shocked that it wasn't given in real time. But the commentary team was convinced that it was just a natural body position. I continue to have no idea what constitutes a handball in the box.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If it was the other way around and wasn't given for Spurs, I'd be livid, not gonna lie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems a natural position to me, no movement to try to swat the ball or anything. I think any handball in the box when your hand is over your elbow should be a penalty, but that is not the current rule.

[–] kameecoding 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

pretty sure natural position is only for deflections and when falling on your ass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think so, I believe it applies to any call where the decision is whether the handball was a penalty or not:

"An arm extended away from the body makes that body bigger, in an unnatural position," explains Mike Riley, Managing Director of Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the referees' body.

"If the ball strikes that arm, particularly if it is blocking a shot on goal, there is a greater likelihood we will penalise that."

So the way I see it, his right arm was in a natural postion, so no penalty.

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[–] kameecoding 0 points 1 year ago

then that's a terrible call, it blocks a shot on goal, arms is way up, by this logic there is no longer any need to tuck your hands in because that's unnatural so everything else is natural.

THey are trying to make rules more "fair" and shit but all they are achieving is shit subjective calls.