After seeing Dermot Gallagher's take on the penalty I can see that they want the on pitch referee to call the decisions, which makes sense. However when Oliver explains to the players that he didn't get a call from the video ref regarding the penalty then it is obvious that he wanted VAR to make the call. The rules according to Gallegher are that the on pitch ref calls it. I don't think the referee can possibly see everything that is going on in the penalty area when a corner is taking place so he should have help from VAR, the rule as it currently stands is bollocks. VAR is available, Oliver wanted them to call the penalty but the error was made in that VAR wanted Oliver to call it. We would all respect the refs more if they just apologised and said a mistake was made. All the players, pundits, staff and fans, even from other clubs know a mistake was made so the refs should change this now and admit their cock up.
What is also contentious is the speed of players running through attacking the ball as happened last week, the technology cannot be accurate enough to cope with this at present so surely its better for everyone if borderline decisions go with the attacking team as they have always supposed to have done. VAR can call this and I accept VAR isn't perfect but a couple of tweaks after these poor decisions and it would make the rule more clear for everyone. As for the handball by Laporte I'm not sure how this should be called, I feel sorry for Jesus having two goals ruled out in two games, after all strikers thrive on goals and it must affect him when he does nothing wrong but the goals he scores are wiped off the records.
I also still cannot believe the Sanchez foul on KdB wasn;t a yellow when he was running through their defence and yet Sterling was carded for a soft challenge at the halfway line....
