The problem with that is VAR shouldn't be recommending a review if it is a grey area, they should only be doing so it they believe the referee has made a clear and obvious error. And that is why it should be extremely rare for a referee to stick with his decision at the screen as a referee of the same level has already determined that he made a clear and obvious error.
MUN v NFO
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Matterface is the best commentator in terms of knowing the laws, he at least makes an effort to know what he is talking about. Similar could be said for Martin Tyler before he retired.
That's the thing, the VAR thinks it's intentional therefore recommending a review whilst the ref think it's accidental and that's the grey area and probably why handball incidents are the most likely cases of when we will see a referee rejecting a review. I'm not sure the referee using the word accidental is helpful as we seen on the mic'd up show recently, Salisbury using the word accidental for not giving a penalty is not supported within the laws and perhaps he could of mentioned there is a deflection and the arm was in a natural position at the time for not ruling out the goal.
It's really disappointing Talksport dropped it's "men in black" feature with Sam and Chris Foy as I feel you had a presenter who clearly done his research and asked the right questions to Chris to answer whilst respecting Chris's answers back even if he didn't agree. Compare and contrast to a couple of videos I see of Jeff Stelling and Chris Foy and Chris's reactions to Jeff has the look of if I'm not on air I would tell him to do one(in more colourful language), quite awkward to watch to be honest.