Ips V Lei (non) penalty

[cooperd5]

Ref Watch: Why did VAR not get involved in Ipswich's penalty appeal against Leicester?

Dermot Gallagher and Stephen Warnock have differing opinions on VARs decision to not get involved in Ipswichs penalty appeal against Leicester.

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Listen to Dermot Gallagher arguing as to why VAR didn't get involved in a penalty decision....
I'm gobsmacked.

 

[ladbroke8745]

Former referees are not doing referees any justice to be fair.
One in particular is very critical (cough Hackett.. cough).

 

[Big Cat]

Since start of season guidance, it's as if there's no level of upper body collision or grappling which will result in a penalty.
As always, I've no clue if this reaches the threshold for var interference even though it is a penalty

 

[RustyRef]

I don't really see the issue here. It is probably a penalty, but even in previous seasons this probably wouldn't be enough for a VAR review, this season there's no chance. The defender doesn't really do much, he doesn't push, he doesn't trip, it could be argued it was just a coming together, no way VAR should be getting involved here.

 

[bester]

Stonewall penalty. Charges him carelessly with force.
Certainly not close to normal football contact.

 

[deusex]

God how does someone make a living from sitting on the fence every Monday.
He just makes the refereeing world look like an old boys club.

 

[Paul_10]

I don't really see the issue here. It is probably a penalty, but even in previous seasons this probably wouldn't be enough for a VAR review, this season there's no chance. The defender doesn't really do much, he doesn't push, he doesn't trip, it could be argued it was just a coming together, no way VAR should be getting involved here.

Why not? If you feel it's a penalty then the referee has got it wrong?

Unless this "I can see why the referee has made that decision" directive goes then we will get more incidents like this and it will only infuriate fans and managers alike. I just can't see this as being anything other than a penalty and surely the error the referee made is that the collision he claimed to saw was made entirely by the defender and not 2 players naturally coming together. If he has seen that angle which shows that, he may of seen things differently.

It is interesting to note in Dale's Johnson column that the Phillips red card would not be overturned if VAR did get involved and Robinson awarded the penalty as it was separate bits of play.