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A potato because we have eyes everywhere, or is the allusion perhaps less flattering than that? 😂

It's a blatant kick out! Not sure in the point of contact, but looks pretty red to me. Not sure there's much the yellow player needed to do differently

Edit: except not for delaying the restart, for failing to respect the required distance

OP, I thought this when I first saw it. Requiring the throw to be taken in the corner would have killed this dead. If they refused and took the throw from where they darn well wanted, awarding a foul throw would have killed it even deader!

New set of laces each weekend, just to keep it fresh

Gee, that sounds really dumb. Do I gather the ball has been used as a towball? I'm not convinced it's a handball - perhaps a different story if the handling is to assist the GK maintain control. That being said, I'm not convinced it is NOT a handball. A question best answered by that boring...

This would be much better reported as very serious OFFINABUS, in my view. Gets around the semantic definitional argument as to what fits VC. If this was player on player, with the ball dead (such that any force was excessive) we would not send off. It seems to me this is one of the things...

Other possibility is that you and your assistants see a particular person boot the ball away, but they then disappear into a mass of team officials all wearing similar kit some of who look similar from a distance. If you can't positively identify the offender, senior member if the technical...

Even more reason not to enter the PA during an attack!

As with many others, I am waiting and seeing here. Of course, it would come with plenty of vocals so that the player on the ball knows a freekick is coming, but simply blowing the whistle is not what the team on the ball want. They are hoping a hole will open in the midfield. Also, regardless...

Just watched this My view - yellow for the forearm, plus yellow for going down holding his face equals everybody is right

I do wonder about this guidance sometimes. It has obvious VC overtones and doesn't really leave room for SFP. One could use the arm as a tool and not as a weapon but still endanger the safety of their opponent or use excessive force.

I'd like to see an addition to the laws where embellishment or simulation lead to an indirect freekick against the offender regardless if whether they were fouled or not. Of course, one would still punish SFP and reckless challenges, but if a player starts going down early or in a way which is...

Looking at it, the contact looks more than negligible to me. Either way, going frame by frame it seems that the ball is in play at the point of contact! Just a run of the mill foul leading to a goal. Anyway, not much can be done now

Deliberateness is certainly a factor for VC where striking to the head or face is the VC. If it was a deliberate strike to the head it would need to have been of only negligible force to avoid a send off for VC. From your description it doesn't sound negligible. VAR protocol is a problem...

Was it deliberate in your view?

Kane's is far worse for me. This chap doesn't come from a significant distance and the speed is not overwhelming. Very high, though.

Wholly because their attack was insipid from the send off onwards

As I understand sometimes players get hot in the torso after scoring a banger I don't think I've had a shirt off either. Once cautioned for facetiously rubbing the head of an opponent, but that was more bog standard USB than purely excessive celebration

As far as self defence is concerned this is, to use an Americanism, a pre-emptive strike.