My side is more difficult to argue than yours (and @RustyRef 's)Don't paint it like we're sitting there outside of IFAB meetings chanting 'ruin the game!'
One of the EPL top refs has just awarded this kick after watching the replay in slow motion. So yes, it would appear that the PGMOL are still interpreting the vagary of the Law in this damaging way. As I pointed out earlier in the thread, I thought it was clear after the Dier incident, that they were intent on relaxing their approach. This decision today is depressingly contradictory
I don't get why our top refs would throw us all under a bus with this unnecessary establishment of fact, when there's more than enough vagary to avoid doing so. Anyone blindly following them would be complicit in doing wrong by the game, taking our reputation (as a community of referees) to new depths. Difficult to communicate emotive stuff on a forum, but my fur is proper ruffled by all this nonsense
Sorry, I thought I'd already signed off