Come on now, Clattenburg was English and he didn't need the ball to even touch the hand to give a penalty for handball*. He didn't even need the contact to occur in the area**.Might just be different interpretations of the law. I've read quite a few articles suggesting that English refs are out of line with most European refs when it comes to hand balls. Apparently PL refs are much less likely to award pens for hand ball than their European counterparts. One example given was the penalty award for france in the WC final which was considered to be hugely controversial by our media but didnt attract that much comment elsewhere. Its almost reached the point where European refs ignore the concept of accidental hand ball.
Pehaps something that our players need to be aware of when playing in the CL.
Are we having this for the europa league to?
That escalated quickly, red card then Rennes score. Bad 60 seconds for the arse.
I watched the last few minutes of the Porto/Roma game. When the Porto penalty went to VAR the commentators said that it was being checked to see if the guy who was held back was offside before being fouled and if he was the foul wouldn't have been penalised. I may be wrong but when Ferni gave the penalty away, they said the offside aspect was irrelevent! Who knows what to make of these ‘laws’ nowadays?
It's not though, plenty of other comps have single leg rounds, a two leg round is just to favour better teams, as they have more of a chance. And in this case better means bigger means G14.Two legs is the only way to go in the play-offs ,but the away goal rule is utter bulls..t.I do hope they will change it soon.
You do realise that I am only suggesting a positive upside rather than trying to sell you a product, don't you? :-)I like watching football. I'm not happy watching this fucking soap opera, that is VAR.