Ugahenne

Dad, Husband, Hard worker. Independent thinker.

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@AriWasserman That's why the world loves football! It's such a "simple" game that underdogs have a realistic chance if they WANT IT ENOUGH and have a good day :-)

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@sidlowe It'll come soon, it's slowly phasing in for Europeans that football is now played in 4 quarters with commercial breaks in between.

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Imagine a slightly different scenario. Attacker receives a long pass to his feet. Defender runs with full speed and lunges with both feet, studs exposed into the situation. He hits the ball first, but then both his feet crash into the attacker's knees. Is that not a foul because "he played the ball first"? Or is it a red card offence. It's obvious to me on this one, so why isn't it obviously a red card for this goalkeeper on this one?

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The "of either team" is not in the actual law, it is buried in the law change commentary. The Law 5 says "mistaken identity when the referee cautions the wrong player". As written, this intervention is unnecessarily confusing, because it really means that VAR can now correct wrong calls. Re-refereeing the game from the video room. Call it what it is. This year it is for yellow cards, next year or soon it will be for every call. We're on our way to a future of video room refereeing, like it or not.

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@TouchlineX First part is OK, the re-restarting is wrong it law

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I’m ok with changing you gets the caution. Or at least rescinding the caution for the US player. But I didn’t like re-refereeing from the video room to change the restart retroactively, especially after game has restarted already. Would they have rescinded the goal if Paraguay scored from there?

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@eytexi Which rule is that?

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This is a slippery slope… so now basically every call a ref gets wrong by can be reviewed and coaches will go nuts if they are sure of a ref mistake and VAR is not intervening.

Yes I understand for cards for now only. But mark my words, we’re slipping into complete video refereeing

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@JoseAChozas I’m ok giving the card to a different (correct) player. Reversing the foul/restart decision is not written anywhere. Imagine they scored a goal from the original free kick and had disallowed it retroactively 😵

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IFAB fucked up again with the wording. Your interpretation is correct, it was/is a rule to make sure cards are given to the correct player. Maybe by stretch of imagination this could include a change to the other team.

Reversing the actual call and direction of free kick and re-restarting is not expressed in the law.

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@TheIFAB If this was indeed the intent - you should write this law more clearly as what it is: if a referee calls a foul for the wrong team, VAR can intervene and reverse it (including after the restart already happened).

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I hate to say this as a referee myself, but the law as written isn’t supporting this.

“If the referee penalises an offence but has clearly misidentified the player who committed that offence, only the identity of the offender can be reviewed.”

So clearly the offence cannot be reviewed in the sense that you change the outcome to be a free kick in the other direction (especially AFTER the restart happened already)

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@RefereeC21621 @FR_jongewoud @TheIFAB How does it support changing the restart decision (especially after the restart already happened)?

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@JohnMaloneHS @the_pieface Sure, buddy. Those dang overseas fans who paid thousands for fucking group stage tickets and then just said, hey you know what, let's have drinks at the bar instead.

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@ZacksJerryRig Do you reckon the ISS needs cooling, and if so, how do they do it?

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@CiebacT Warst du schonmal in den USA?

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@eligecrf I was a bit skeptical first in real time (a lot of theatrics by the Brazilian player). But given the replays, I'd say this is a red card on Blue #17 for violent conduct.

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@ChristinaUnkel Do you have any insider information on whether he could ref games in Mexico or Canada instead?

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@peer_rich The crazy thing is that the stadiums will be full to the brim. Because there will be enough people paying the prices. I haven't found out how yet, but America by and large seems to be genuinely THAT rich of a country. I'm wondering the same with NFL or concerts...

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@I_amMukhtar It'd be good if he could publicize the specific reasons CBP gave him for the denial to expose their shallow "vetting" against what will very likely be vapid (and racist) reasons. I'm sure.