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I think the Brentford Liverpool game highlights why a referee gives a foul and free kick but actually in the penalty area should not always result in a "factual" overturn because that was extremely soft and leads to the theory that a referee will give a certain decision outside the box but a...

Well that is not true at all as they take into account unnatural position aswell. For me the hand is too far out therefore he is making himself unnaturally bigger. Plus the defender was half turning his back so has less control of where his arms are. I believe pre VAR this would get given as a...

We will probably never know but maybe the VAR thought it was not a penalty but had to send him to the screen because the 'handball' was inside the area so the ref has to make a judgement for himself.

I'm all for having a threshold for handball but Sunderland really should of had a penalty for handball against Keane, the hands well away from the body, looks unnatural too me, should be at least reviewed but perhaps Salisbury being cautious after what happened last time he was on VAR...

Not buying into that, I just think he thought it was onside hence no flag, it can happen but it's pretty rare we see clear offsides like this not being flagged, I think our assistant referees are pretty strong in this regards especially when I see some of the decisions in the European games...

Seemingly according to Dale Johnson the on field team disallowed the goal for a handball and the VAR could not find the conclusive evidence to overturn the decision. I mean I'm 99% certain it did not hit the arm but you got to be 100% sure in these situations and Dale says the on field decision...

I think it may of grazed his arm hair because why is the Celtic player not going crazy about it however that is certainly not clear to say it's a factual handball and Celtic can feel hard done by there.

Sadly this game was not included on the mic'd up show(which will only fuel the arguments that the show almost virtually show the clips that Webb agrees with) so we won't know what Webb thoughts are but I stand by what I said in my previous post in this thread which this is by far a worse error...

Howard Webb backs the decision of the penalty being overturned but the bizarre thing for me is that Jarred Gillett could not see a touch on the ball by Pope on the close up angles yet seemingly he could as soon as he saw the wide shot from above even though that looked far less clear cut too me...

And this is the problem with refereeing in England, we are too worried what everyone else thinks and forget about the laws of the game. If Joelinton was addressing his clapping towards the ref then it's only himself to blame if he got a second yellow. It has happened before a Premier League...

Penalty via VAR you expect in Europe but not the PL, I think it's pretty close proximity aswell which may of been a factor. As for the moment when VAR did intervene, then I don't mind it, I can understand why he did with Pope touching the ball and allowing the referee too see that is...

I'm not sure what is subjective about this, the ball was clearly going to Mbembo's foot and he would of had an clear attempt at goal. The only reason he doesn't is because he got dragged back by the shoulder area therefore it's not an attempt/challenge for the ball and should be a red. I dont...

For me this is by far a worse VAR decision than the a Chelsea Fulham incident but because it benefitted the smaller clubs, there won't be much noise over it so Howard wont be be treating his VAR so harshly as he did with Salisbury. It looked a stick on DOGSO red card, he would of had a clear...

His response to being a VAR sounds like what a load of the old guard referees have said in the past and that is they don't enjoy being a VAR and I for one don't blame them. We see some of the current crop don't act as VAR's like Taylor and Barrott so I'm surprised Scott agreed to keep being...

I do wish the TV companies put up the law which seems to of back up the referees decision instead of pundits just lambasting the referee for not showing common sense.

I think this is a case where this is a penalty in the SPL but not in the EPL(or certainly wouldn't be intervened upon) and this is where I do think the EPL do have it right more in terms of the handball interpretation because his arms are fairly close to his body and the ball would just hit his...

Which could all be avoided if Howard Webb did not buckle under public pressure and threw his officials right under the bus. I hate the referees call phase they use also because if the referee did not give a foul, they would not of intervened and rightly so because there is just simply no foul...

So as I keep saying, Webb care more about the stakeholders/people in the game because they want too see goals and not see goals being ruled out by VAR rather than having his officials upholding the laws of the game. A careless foul is a foul, it should not be ignored just because a goal has...

Hearing the audio on this incident and whilst I can still understand the VAR recommending a review, I'm not sure he really took the referees description of "two players challenging in the same space" into any consideration at all because hearing the ref say that and then seeing the pictures then...

Unless Salisbury has requested to be removed, I rather the PGMOL backed up their official and whilst they may prefer no intervention, it's certainly not a howler of a decision to be punished over. It's only the fact the Fulham player did a bit of skill and the big club benefitting against the...