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That's showing it's direct shoulder on shoulder contact. Clean challenge. You don't really need to see anything else..
Of course you do, this is a shoulder barge, and shoulder barges are fouls. Every shoulder barge looks like shoulder to shoulder if you pause it at the right time. This is a foul anywhere else on the pitch, there’s no attempt to play the ball whatsoever.
 

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Of course you do, this is a shoulder barge, and shoulder barges are fouls. Every shoulder barge looks like shoulder to shoulder if you pause it at the right time. This is a foul anywhere else on the pitch, there’s no attempt to play the ball whatsoever.
It wasn't a shoulder barge at all. It was a simple coming together. It's a contact sport mate, not every bit of contact is a foul.
 

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Didn't it become clear and obvious it wasn't offside about 2 minutes ago? Looking for a reason to not give it I felt.
 

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Soon as they cleared Varane they should have given it. There’s absolutely zero need to spend another 3 mins looking at the same angle
 

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They clearly didn’t have a good enough angle on it to draw the lines. A pointless wait as they could never have given it offside based on that.
 

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I thought Varane could easily have been deemed intefering. Especially after the VVD one.
I thought that too but they said Varane was cleared about 3-4 mins before Casemiro was cleared for offside. They just kept replaying the same bit of footage over and over.
 

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Not a red :lol: Casemiro grabbed Will Hughes collar and couldn't wait to give a straight red.
 

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So why isn't hands around the neck a red card? Or does that rule only apply to Casemiro?
 

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Love to know why grabbing someone’s neck is no longer deemed a red card.
 

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What’s the difference between what Felipe did and what Casemiro did? Sure the badge on the shirt but other than that?
 

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What a joke. There you go. Different rules for different teams.

I wonder what they would do if that was Casemiro? Oh, We know. For even less than that.
 

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I cannot believe a punishment wasn’t given for that, now it won’t be discussed because United have won. VAR is a complete failure purely because of the idiot refs managing it.
 

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ETH should really take this opportunity to speak up about referees tonight.

No red card for Felipe, not even a VAR check for the « shoulder barge » on Rashford
 

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Not one for this we're hard done by stuff, but how on earth is strangling someone not even a yellow now.

If we had Fergie managing he'd bring that right up.