How is that Hudson-Odoi handball not a penalty?

MikeeMike

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1mm is far too small to be classed as an advantage. So if they're gonna use those daft lines, they need to figure out how much actually classes as "gaining an advantage".
Sorry but that doesnt make sense to me. If VAR shows 1mm offside then its offside. Gaining an advantage is not a consideration. Offside is offside . Not sure why it is such a problem to grasp. Sure there are more marginal calls now that before might or might not have been flagged.
 

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Would SAF "make a fuss" about it? IMO he would. While "victim narrative" is indeed not great, "siege mentality" has proved to work numerous times over the history of PL.
Undoubtedly, but his success would make it seem a lot less like deflecting though.

That's a good point about victim mentality and siege mentality but we'll see how it plays out, with it hopefully being the latter.
 

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It’s not. It’s worse. Whether the rules are perfect or not, the worst possible scenario is to have them implemented differently in some games than other games from the same season. You say “to be fair” but what happened is literally unfair.
This. Although the handball rule at the beginning of the season was too strict, we at least knew the standard and every game was refereed in the same way. Now different referees have different interpretations to the law and the boundary is blurred, what makes it worse is the change happens mid-season.