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RR wrote:

kwlap wrote:

bullshark penalty to win it. there was nothing there. Would have thought/hoped VAR would have overruled that. 

There was contact, so failed the 'clear and obvious' part. The VAR isn't there to re-Ref games, so can't rule on if its enough contact or not. Ams should be embarrassed that he gave that.

The VAR over-ruled a penalty shout in the Nix game vs WSW when Kamau was brought down in the box. And there was clearly contact on Kamau. It looked as though he had lost control and was already falling over but it certainly wasn't clear and obvious. What is the difference?

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djtim3000 wrote:

RR wrote:

kwlap wrote:

bullshark penalty to win it. there was nothing there. Would have thought/hoped VAR would have overruled that. 

There was contact, so failed the 'clear and obvious' part. The VAR isn't there to re-Ref games, so can't rule on if its enough contact or not. Ams should be embarrassed that he gave that.

The VAR over-ruled a penalty shout in the Nix game vs WSW when Kamau was brought down in the box. And there was clearly contact on Kamau. It looked as though he had lost control and was already falling over but it certainly wasn't clear and obvious. What is the difference?

The contact made was from Kamau trying to avoid the tackle, that is why he didn't get a yellow for diving. So it was clear & obvious that the decision was wrong.

I'm sure Ben Wilson will answer why the Penalty was given in the Glory game in his next column given Babbel's post match comments.

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RR wrote:

kwlap wrote:

bullshark penalty to win it. there was nothing there. Would have thought/hoped VAR would have overruled that. 

There was contact, so failed the 'clear and obvious' part. The VAR isn't there to re-Ref games, so can't rule on if its enough contact or not. Ams should be embarrassed that he gave that.

Not hugely different to the Simon pen. Soft, but as Rudan said to Doyle  don't give the ref anything.

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I don't buy into the view that you can hold, hug, and grasp an opposition player as much as you like and if a penalty gets awarded it's 'soft'. 

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