I think we all know why, apart from a deluded few!!
Depends who you support.
If these decisions had any sort of balance to them in terms of clubs negatively impacted then perhaps incompetence may be the cause.
According to the rules handball has to be deliberate. It is the interpretation of the rules which causes all the trouble because their penalty was not in line with any of the advice on how the rules are to be interpreted. The rules are not to be interpreted in such a way that means VAR is to be used to seek out anything which might mean a penalty MAY be awarded. Contact between ball and hand does not automatically mean a penalty must be given. Factors such as "proximity" and the position of the hand must be considered. The underlying aim is to ensure that VAR does not become a way of looking for anything for which a penalty MAY JUST AT A STRETCH be awarded but that it is a way of helping the officials identify genuine foul play. If we apply this to yesterday's "penalty" we must ask if Jack really cheated and the answer is no. Was he seeking to gain an unfair advantage? The answer is, of course, no. Was there, therefore, any reason at all to award a penalty, which may have a material effect on the result of the game? Answers on a postcard. We may see this clearer when we ask why VAR spent so little time considering the penalty claim when KdB appeared to be fouled. But then this leads us away from incompetence and into issues such as partiality and possible corruption. Why do all errors seem to favour the same team?
You don’t understand jumping. As you have proven here.
Would actually have been a 5 match ban. 3 for the straight red and another 2 since it would have been his 3rd of the season. That would have had a serious impact on next season. Bent doesn’t begin to cover it.
