They have got themselves into a mess with the laws here and there, and VAR isn't helping. Handball supposedly has to be deliberate. All the interpretations aren't helping to make it any clearer. Whatever the law says, I think it's ridiculous to give a penalty for that.
At a certain level, players know exactly what they are doing with their arm positioning, and how the interpretation of the laws works. Whether or not deliberate is in the law wording or not, that was, and should be a handball at this level.
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Another law that annoys me is retreating at free kicks. They have stuffed up this law as well. We are getting the situation where players are delaying free kicks by standing in front of the ball. They should be booked Every time they do that or try and play the ball rather than retreat 10 yards.
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Stepped approach works best, and is how ref's are coached for this kind of infraction of the laws.
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Also it's ridiculous to have hoards chasing the referee when the ball goes out of play and the players are claiming a VAR referral should happen. That's not an improvement at all, just encourages dissent.
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VAR has been sold as a solution to all ills of the game, and it clearly is not. Lack of it cost Liverpool a goal v Arsenal this morning - but i think part of the problem VAR has is the people commentating the game are still as genuinely clueless as ever about the laws, and lead fans down the garden path of confusion.