Ref Watch

MOTD might have explained it that way but in law that is wrong. The free kick is supposed to be an advantage to the fouled team. If the whistle goes it does not really matter if the keeper is ready or not. Before ko the ref will normally tell the players that if they want to take a quick free kick, then do so, as long as the ref hasn't asked them to wait for the whistle. Dunk has said that Mason told him he blew the 2nd time as there was pushing in the wall. Now under the new rules none of the attackers should be close enough to push anyone in the wall. If they had then surely it would have been a free kick to WBA as the ball is in play from the 1st whistle, but he gave a re take.

The likes of Lee Mason give all refs a bad name.
Very simple. Dunk asks Mason, Mason obliges, not understanding that the keeper isn’t set. Mason then sees the keeper still on the post and panicking so tries to counter his fuck up. He then has to go with his decision that it’s a goal until VAR confirms that the second whistle went off prior to the ball going over the land. Goal disallowed.

The fuck up was Mason blowing to let the free kick happen when the keeper was on the post still setting the wall. Nobody would be happy with that under the current practices.
 

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