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Derry Alli

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That handball by Cash in the Villa/Southampton game...

You see him diving to stop a shot with his arm- no penalty.
A ball gets blasted at a player from two feet and a player has no time to move their arm- penalty.

I just don't get VAR decisions at all.

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That's an absolutely baffling decision not to give Southampton a penalty. It's a clear pen under the old handball rule, the new handball rule, and any handball rule you want. Literally stretches his arm out to his side to block the ball - should have been a red card too.

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The only explanation I can think of is money from a South Asian betting syndicate being involved. I’m sticking a few quid on Aston Villa.

ETA: Seems Mike Dean is making things up to justify his decision.

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1 minute ago, peasy23 said:

The explanation given on the Bein commentary is that because the ball glances his thigh then hits his hand it's not a penalty.

Lovely goal by Villa to give them a half time lead.

Until next week, when a shot comes off someone's thigh, hits their arm and is given as a penalty.

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I don't feel like that was intended to apply to cases where the player continues to extend his arm out towards the ball after the deflection. The logical extension of their argument here is that if it deflects off your body you can catch the ball and throw it out of the box.

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There is one angle where you can see the ball just touches off his thigh and then on to his hand. So it's the correct decision, a very good spot by them actually.

I think the ball would have hit his arm regardless of the touch though, which does make the law seem a bit ridiculous here.

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3 minutes ago, The Master said:

This new interpretation of offside with the “shirt line” is nonsense. 

As the commentator just noted, Ings might well have been onside if he hadn’t been wearing a black armband. 

Also, absolutely zero scrutiny, despite the margins and Nth degree analysis of shirts, of the point at which the ball was played. Shambles, and tbh, they are getting he league they deserve

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5 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Also, absolutely zero scrutiny, despite the margins and Nth degree analysis of shirts, of the point at which the ball was played. Shambles, and tbh, they are getting he league they deserve

Yes, that’s a big issue as well. 

50fps is not fast enough to give offside with such narrow margins. 

When it’s that close, they should just defer to the on-field decision. Which wouldn’t have changed things tonight, of course. 

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2 minutes ago, The Master said:

Yes, that’s a big issue as well. 

50fps is not fast enough to give offside with such narrow margins. 

Its total nonsense. They obviously could be using super high speed cameras, but to apply such ludicrous margins to the attacker but not the playing of the ball is just ridiculous.

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We got away with that. Makes up for the decisions that have gone against us in recent matches. Notably Man City when they changed the rules just for one game, then clarified that they hadn't oh no honest guv.

Delighted with that win, Southampton are a good side. 

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