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bloovee said:
I'm talking about the kick having been completed, rebounding into play. Then a foul in the PA* on an attacker trying to play the rebound.

* At least in the case cited, the attacker is in the PA. A lot of his shirt is in the hand of an opponent standing outside the PA.
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Yeah I just edited my post.
 
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Alex Rush-Fear said:
How exactly did Xhaka impede Silva's movement with that particular shirt pull? Impeding the movement of Silva's face into the floor perhaps...
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That's the point we can't be sure. He might have been able to shift his body weight and get a shot away, he might not, it is completely subjective whether it impeded him or not. I suspect the definition was changed to stop penalties where there was a small grab at the shirt, but this was a full on grab.

When I managed I used to say to the players if you don't give the referee a decision to make he can't make a decision. That usually related to gobbing off at him, but if you grab hold of a player's shirt you are giving the referee, or in this case VAR, a decision to make.
 
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