limerickcitykid
There once was a kid from Toronto...
The only I can think of was u17s Ireland vs Netherlands where they allowed the Dutch keeper to come off his line on every penalty with only a warning but then decided to send off the Irish keeper for it and retake the penalty. Made the kid breakdown and cry.It's like offside, it's a binary decision: either the GK is over his line or not. Once you make var police these things they have no choice, but to repeat penalties like Palace's, even if de Gea's overstepping was more of a technicality. One can of course ask whether it is necessary to apply VAR to these calls, but I'm not sure whether I've ever seen a penalty repeated for overstepping before VAR was implemented.
It’s about time they’ve started enforcing it anyway, it’s just been a game of what keeper cheats the most before.