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Originally Posted by Bagor
You're stretching now. All that doesn't account for Var not getting involved.
Or, are you suggesting that they didn't get involved too because it was too early in the game?
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I don’t think it’s a stretch at all. Time of the game 100% plays into the refs decision.
A red card is going to need to be more clear and obvious at the 20th minute when it’s the players first warning, than the 80th minute when it’s close to the end of an emotional filled game that you don’t want to get out of hand.
Game management happens in all sports when it comes to fouls.
As for VAR they need to clearly see something “clear and obvious” to overturn the refs decision, and in Kane’s case they thought a yellow was fair. Had he been given a red that probably would have been upheld as well.
I said by the book of the law then Jota’s penalty should have been overturned but there is a discussion with the ref going on there too. As somebody already mentioned if you want to make this more clear then the audio of the discussion from the VAR ref and on field ref should be shared like in Rugby.
I don’t think there was some anti-Liverpool conspiracy here, I think it was a high event game with a lot of calls that could have went either way. If Kane gets a red in the 20th minute, and Jota gets that penalty then there would be calls for a reffing bias against Tottenham. Just the nature of those decisions in a big game like this.
In the end I'm comfortable with Kane not getting a red and I've seen tackles like that get a yellow card, Jota probably should have gotten a penalty, the second Liverpool goal should have been a handball, and I think Robertson's foul could have been a yellow too. It wasn't a well reffed game, but there were an abnormal amount of big decisions in that game, and in the end 2-2 was probably fair.