you can tackle from behind if you win the ball only ? but if you catch the player and he goes down then its a foul and a yellow card if it was like on foden last night > simple the VAR team got it so wrong ? the referee got it wrong in not seeing the foul in the first place and waving play on
Even if he saw the foul he'd have waved play on for the advantage. If he'd seen the handball he should have stopped play - either for the foul if he saw that, or for the handball leading to a goalscoring opportunity. At least that's how our idiot referees interpret the law. They're simplifying it for next season anyway - gone is the reference to "gaining possession/control" and "create" a goalscoring opportunity.
The new law:
It's handball if a player
"• after the ball has touched their or a team-mate’s hand/arm, even if accidental, immediately:
• scores in the opponents’ goal (or)
• creates a goal-scoring opportunity"
There's a "clarification":
"If an attacking player accidentally touches the ball with their hand/arm and the ball then goes to another attacking player and the attacking team immediately scores, this is a handball offence;
• it is not an offence if, after an accidental handball, the ball travels some distance (pass or dribble) and/or there are several passes before the goal or goal-scoring opportunity."
That last bit sounds like a belated redefinition to say that Liverpool's "handball" goal against us was OK (except it was deliberate handball by TAA).
But it leaves all sorts of scope for VAR to make it up as they go along.
"Dribble"? What exactly is a dribble? Can you dribble without an opponent? How close to the ball does the player need to be?
"Immediately"? How long is that?
How far is some distance?
How many is several?
and/or?
("Or" if it's Liverpool; "and" if it's us...)