Well a farcical rule, and farcical interpretation of the rule had me turning the game off early. Good for Boro who'll probably talk about it for the next 50 years.
So apparently, if a player accidentally handballs and sets up another player to score, it's OK and VAR can't take a look, goal given. But if the player who scored handballed it, whether intentional or not, it would've been called back.
But I detest the assumption that it was "accidental". If he was defending, the VAR has a look and, given his arm is out stretched on front of him, would probably rule a handball and penalty.
With VAR and recent rule changes football has descended to the point where we'll spend 10 minutes checking to see if someone's bellend was 2cm beyond someone else's arm armpit hair to decide if they're offside. Yet our rules stop us looking at a handball which leads to a goal and saying "huh, that's probably not right." Ugh.
Put Bruno back on pens, never should've been taken off them. And lordy the finishing has been poor for years. Weak minded players who don't have any bottle.
So apparently, if a player accidentally handballs and sets up another player to score, it's OK and VAR can't take a look, goal given. But if the player who scored handballed it, whether intentional or not, it would've been called back.
But I detest the assumption that it was "accidental". If he was defending, the VAR has a look and, given his arm is out stretched on front of him, would probably rule a handball and penalty.
With VAR and recent rule changes football has descended to the point where we'll spend 10 minutes checking to see if someone's bellend was 2cm beyond someone else's arm armpit hair to decide if they're offside. Yet our rules stop us looking at a handball which leads to a goal and saying "huh, that's probably not right." Ugh.
Put Bruno back on pens, never should've been taken off them. And lordy the finishing has been poor for years. Weak minded players who don't have any bottle.