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Originally Posted by Bagor
Kane. Var needs to step in. Definite red.
Jota penalty. No brainer. Not even close to the ball and bundles him over. What part of that is not a clear foul.
Var should have stepped in.
Above two. Tierney had clear views of and screwed up badly. But the this is exactly what Var is for.
Shoulder's handball. Presuming neither Tierney or linesman simply didn't see it which makes it more forgivable. Missed call. Nothing Var can do.
Someone explain how Jota isn't a clear and obvious foul?
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I think by the rule of the law both Kane and Jota should have went in Liverpool's favour.
My point was more that in terms of on field refing decisions I think those are calls that go either way a lot of the time. I've seen tackles not as bad get straight reds, and I've seen worse tackles get yellow.
In terms of the Jota foul all I can think of is that they think he got enough of the shoulder to classify it as a shoulder barge, and not from the back.
In both cases though I can see why the ref on the field might have sided the way he did, but in both cases VAR should have stepped in to reverse decision if VAR is supposed to remove the doubt and make the decisions based on the rule of the law.
But I think the point stands in that these are decisions that can go either way, nothing is ever called 100% of the time no matter how the rulebook says. Maybe it's more 70/30 instead of 50/50 but there is still a lot of grey in the rulebook, I think the bigger thing is that there were 4 high profile decisions like this in the same game, which is what magnifies the decisions.