One of the many things that annoys me about the newcastle incident, is people saying VAR can’t intervene on a handball as he didn’t score the goal.
But that’s not true VAR can say that it was a handball offence if they believe so, like in this video. The goal scorer handball rule is regardless of if it would be a foul otherwise. So the potential handball was totally swept under the rug when discussing the incident.
Similar with the excuses about not having angles for the offside and ball out of play. “well they didn’t have them so what could they do?” Never stopped them before.
And now the “independent” review means we should have to accept that Gabriel wasn’t fouled.
One of the many things that annoys me about the newcastle incident, is people saying VAR can’t intervene on a handball as he didn’t score the goal.
But that’s not true VAR can say that it was a handball offence if they believe so, like in this video. The goal scorer handball rule is regardless of if it would be a foul otherwise. So the potential handball was totally swept under the rug when discussing the incident.
Similar with the excuses about not having angles for the offside and ball out of play. “well they didn’t have them so what could they do?” Never stopped them before.
And now the “independent” review means we should have to accept that Gabriel wasn’t fouled.