You don't have to swan dive to the floor to avoid contact, a simple jump will do.I get that we won't agree and far from flogging a dead horse will leave this as my closing statement....
Playing in a dangerous manner is any action that, while trying to play the
ball, threatens injury to someone (including the player themself) and includes
preventing a nearby opponent from playing the ball for fear of injury.
I dont see how this can be simulation. He hasn't simulated a foul. If he doesn't move out of the way he gets walloped as he wins the ball well before the everton player swipes at it.
You also have a right to play without fear of injury.You don't have to swan dive to the floor to avoid contact, a simple jump will do.
Yeah he shouldn’t have flagged. He should have waited for the goal and stood surely..,Biased (but correct) opinion- dive. 100%. Went down under no contact. No idea why he wasn’t booked? Seems officials or the authorities just aren’t willing to stamp out cheating, if anything they encourage it. Where’s the retrospective punishments?
VAR got the winner spot on, however, the AR flags immediately. I thought protocol was to delay the flag in order to let VAR sort out if incorrect? Not that I think it mattered in this case as the Everton players carried on IMO but what if they’d seen the flag and stopped?
Yeah he shouldn’t have flagged. He should have waited for the goal and stood surely..,
That is clearly the practice everywhere else in the world. My impression is that that the PL isn't giving that instruction, but instead telling the ARs to flag normally and the R to delay the whistle if it is close and might warrant a VAR review. (Hmm. Is this because they are trying to torpedo VAR and don't want the ARs to waste time getting into a new habit that they will then have to unlearn? Conspiracy theorists want to know!)
Then they'd be fools for ignoring the age-old advice that everyone who's ever played the game knows - you play to the whistle (not the flag).Not that I think it mattered in this case as the Everton players carried on IMO but what if they’d seen the flag and stopped?
Not a dive for me.
In terms of the offside, in UEFA the assistant would have held the flag until the goal was scored. PGMOL have decided to do it differently and have instructed ARs to flag straight away and then referee will delay the whistle if necessary, presumably having been told by the AR over comms that it was tight. Clubs have all been told this and they should ignore the flag and wait for the whistle.
It doesn't matter where they've played.It's inevitable that one day the offside flag will go up and the keeper will stop playing, a goal will be scored and VAR will award the goal. I know they've all been told about the new protocol but in the heat of the moment a keeper could easily forget, or it could be a keeper that's just come from outside the PL etc.