Indeed. It’s like common sense not being that common.I thought it was a clear and obvious error by the referee not to give Spurs a penalty. But the VAR must have decided it was not a clear and obvious error.
This illustrates a fundamental flaw in the VAR process. There is no such thing as a clear and obvious error. It's subjective. The concept of a clear and obvious error is just an excuse to justify a decision.
Them's definitely fighting words.Not really, I see @Prestwich_Blue as the Alan Ball of the forum.
Very similar voices too.Them's definitely fighting words.
Colin, I wouldn't take that.
What you should do is watch both replays and pay close attention to the fouling player's torso. You'll see that one is wearing a sky blue shirt with a City badge front and centre and the other is wearing a shirt with a Liverpool badge. Therefore only the first player could have committed a foul.We shouldn’t need to compare incidents, both were penalties.
Why one was given and the other not is baffling?
It's not clear and it's not obvious. It's not common sense. It's not even big and it's certainly not clever. Its subjective and it's a VARCE.It was a blatant push from behind from TAA, it's a clear and obvious foul. If that doesn't fall under their definition of clear and obvious, I've no idea what does. There's no debate, it's a penalty all day. Incompetence or worse are the only reasons it wasn't given.
Cancelo one was just as clear of a penalty, however I'm not really buying the red card.
He's given a red card under the "no attempt to play the ball" rule but a shoulder barge is a perfectly legal action, he's attempted a shoulder barge and got it wrong, if the shoulder barge is a fair and successful one, he gains control of the situation and the ball, therefore you cannot say there was no attempt to play the ball.