🗣 "I can understand why Spurs are going to go berserk. It's total nonsense. I'd be devastated if it was against us."
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) September 27, 2020
Steve Bruce sympathizes with Spurs and believes the handball is ruining the sport pic.twitter.com/Be0qsvTJnb
Whatever one might think of Steve Bruce, he’s a decent, straightforward chap, and the one time Manchester United player understands football; he knows how it works. Today the Toon have benefited, but next week, it could well be their turn to deal with the pedantic nonsense from Premier League referees.
Nobody in their right mind wants games destroyed with this sort of appalling, Stasi like observance of rules. It leaves the actual game in tatters and is guaranteed to alienate fans – who are currently living on scraps as it is.
I agree and it was telling that Dier once again was the culprit. Patently at fault with his marking for the Calvert-Lewin header, the Ings control and shot and however much it was a travesty, he was still the ‘fall guy’ in the Carroll penalty award. One somehow feels, given the liability of VAR and the current handball ruling, that a smarter player would have been more aware in that situation.
Agree with your points, but I think another tactical analysis that Jose would normally pick up on. The players have to more clever what ever the score is or should be. A last throw of the dice by teams is to earn/con a free kick, all players up, long ball into the box and hope for that last chance. Also now the added VAR review for a tug, handball etc. Surely that was predictable as soon as Carroll came on..!
That is the worry that players will deliberately do that.
I wouldn’t feel good if our players did, but..!!
Fernandes will for sure help Man U add to their penalty tally.
Although wrong, if it became blatant players were doing it the authority’s would soon change the rules.
We were shafted three times during the course of one incident. Joelinton literally dived into Hojbjerg to win Newcastle a free-kick, where one was utterly not warranted. A dreadful decision in and of itself. The resultant cross to Carroll, when reduced to VAR review, showed clearly that Carroll’s right arm was beyond the last Spurs defender, yet was somehow, myopically, ruled as level and finally the crowning glory, the travesty of a header inadvertently hitting Dier on the back of the arm, at point blank range, when he was facing the other way, being adjudicated as a penalty. Beyond farcical at every turn.
FIFA, with its wholly arbitrary use of VAR and incompetent officiating, should be charged with bringing the game into disrepute. I have never seen such an illogical and abominable misinterpretation of both the laws and the spirit of the game in my more than 50 years of watching professional football. My advice to those charged with custodianship of the game, is get rid of this travesty of a handball rule, introduce some latitude into VAR’s adjudication of offside, compatible with the ‘benefit of the doubt’ being accorded to the attacking side and return commonsense to on-field officiating.
Agreed. The purpose was to eliminate glaring errors. Not a toe nail or elbow being offside or a ball being kicked at a hand.
Brilliant post!
50% of our PL goals conceded are from handball pens. Wait till attackers are deliberately targeting defenders’ arms, the percentage could get to 75!
Missed the game yesterday as hunting down campers ,another thing covid has changed…
Anyway watched m.o.t.d last night and they showed the stats of other leagues using these rules last season and they are very scary . We had 19 hanballs last season the Spanish league 57! This is going to be a shocker this year and we will be talking about it every week .
Also noticed Jose has told our defenders to defend literally with their hands tied behind their backs…
The game is a shambles ,well done FIFA.
The notion of var is great but the application is terrible
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I’ve had it with the game until they review how VAR is used. I’ve sat on my sofa and celebrated a goal. I’ve been in the stands and done likewise only to, like you say have it reviewed and subsequently disallowed. These (non) football people are taking the very soul of the game away.
They might as well of brought out a chiv and splashed us while they were at it
Should have hammered them but that doesn’t change the fact that they have got a point from a game without a shot on target and conceding. Football is finished
Yep.
We got “jacked.
IF we had won 6-1, it does not compensate or diminish from the utter nonsense the game of football has now become, through the people in positions of power, who do not have it’s best interest at heart . It’s simply shameful, and in danger of becoming unrecognisable from what was a simple set of rules that everyone, even with the most basic of intelligence could understand, only for it to be taken over and destroyed, it leaves a bitter taste.
Its like watching fifa 2020 with real players. Some will say we shouldn’t have needed to worry about that and thats true to an extent, but as a general point football is finished. This is absolutely disgusting and I know everyone will say they get alot of bad decisions but seems to me we really do. Just as another point, what about the lad who was offside as the free kick is taken? If they say he wasn’t interfering, how do they know. What if that ball was intended for him but was over hit? SCANDALOUS
VAR is not the problem, it’s just an electronic system for reviews. The way it’s being used is the problem. Blaming VAR for bad decisions is like blaming the whistle. I can’t believe how many people on these last few blogs are damning Spurs for the draw because we were only winning 1-0.
Go on the Irrational Hystericals!
Ridiculous decision.
However his game should have been out of sight. For once we had a good share of possession for a change but we looked clueless as to what to do with it.
Rather than banging on about ‘laziness’ perhaps Jose needs to hire an attacking coach? Unless it’s on the break he seems to have no clear plan about a route to goal.
Expect the next game to be more suited to his tactics and our inevitable lesser share of the ball.
Blame VAR, the players etc but the lack of direct critique of Jose’s tactics never seems to happen. He’s won loads of stuff, but does it make him immune to criticism in the present day? Of course it doesn’t, unless there’s something very strange going on…
They must think this adds to the game were its doing the exact opposite.we can’t celebrate a goal any longer not knowing if it will be ruled out two mins later.Now this stupid handball rule two weeks running.I don’t blame you for giving up paying to watch this fasico.
One goal should be enough if the other team don’t muster a single shot on target apart from a penalty wrongly awarded. We have been cheated off two points.
Why was the handball from Ndombele cross onto a Newcastle defender not looked at on the monitor?
Still that was just one moment in a 90 min game.. Our own fault for not putting them to the sword earlier.. Same problem as our last ropey match. When we dominate we must put them to bed. Take our chances on goal. One goal up is never enough.
We are going to have to live with this nonsense for the rest of the season, I don’t think they can change the rule mid season can they?
From point blank range perhaps one yard, while he was jumping in the air, and he was looking the other way!…. Madness.. Harry Potter couldn’t have avoided that one.
Agreed, when I was always under the impression that a penalty decision involved blatant “intent”???
I’ve cancelled my sky sports package. Apart from their biased commentators the game without the fans (even some fans) is ruined.
Add to this mix VAR and the game has completely lost its way. Part of game was and is about having decisions go for and against you. My understanding of VAR was it was there to spot the glaring mistakes made by the officials on the day.
If this keeps up, football as many generations know it, will fade into and abyss of constant stoppages. 1mm offsides and handballs that never were. The next phase will be goals awarded for retrospective handballs and offsides in the 18yd box that VAR missed first time round.
‘It leaves the actual game in tatters and is guaranteed to alienate fans – who are currently living on scraps as it is.’
Exactly H.