Peter Grove
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As I mentioned over in another thread, the current UEFA competition where they're not following the same super strict enforcement is being played under a different set of laws (2018/19). Those laws carry with them a different set of assumptions and operating parameters. In fact you could argue that super strict enforcement on this while still using the old laws could be seen as inconsistent since in all other games played under those laws in the past, including the earlier rounds of this very competition, super strict enforcement was not the accepted norm. You would in one sense, be applying the new parameters retroactively.It's not just the WWC, it was the same in the U20 WC. But you're right--UEFA is already not enforcing. So we have two major tournaments at the same time using completely different standards (and some of the VARs even overlap).
The IFAB is evidently intending to make a clean break with the past by only requiring the higher level of enforcement when the 2019/20 laws are in force, along with its new (and more lenient) law on goalkeeper movement.