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[Kandi1977]

It’s a bricky situation and decision but they’re the rules. Gary Neville was bemoaning lack of consistency earlier in the game and then says the goal should “just be let stand”.

In hockey there's what's called a technical goal. This would be it, but we don't have that rule in football, so the outcome is 100% correct according to the rules, even if everyone would like the goal to stand, and leave it with that.

 

[Yiddo]

Could you imagine the scenes if that Var decision had happened at 1-1?

 

[WillWeEverBeGoodAgain]

Could you imagine the scenes if that Var decision had happened at 1-1?

Pep would have spontaneously combusted

 

[nelto]

It would be a good one for "What happened next?" on a Question of Sport.

 

[Kandi1977]

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[Baleforce]

In hockey there's what's called a technical goal. This would be it, but we don't have that rule in football, so the outcome is 100% correct according to the rules, even if everyone would like the goal to stand, and leave it with that.

In the NFL, you can have offsetting fouls, football should have that.

 

[Robbo]

In the NFL, you can have offsetting fouls, football should have that.

Couldn't VAR just acknowledge that the ref played the advantage, and given the red anyway? Probably some rules restricting that, but from my fragile memory surely there have been incidents in the past where players have been booked or sent off after a goal has been scored, from a foul that happened in the build up to the goal.