Official Soccer Thread

[Mad Dog]

some people on twitter were saying how Messi did the same fault earlier on a game and didn't get a red or even yellow card, but USA gets a red card.

Besides playing and coaching competitively until I was 64, I was also an official. Though in accordance with the letter of the law, that play would rarely be a red card. Like in American football when an official calls a rarely penalized , as the announcers say, "a ticky tacky call"....that's what that was. In just about every game, you'd be sending numerous players off if the interpretations was so strict. Soccer is a very physical sport, especially at the world class level.

Bull poop call, in my opinion. Warning or yellow at the worst.

 

[Legacy]

Besides playing and coaching competitively until I was 64, I was also an official. Though in accordance with the letter of the law, that play would rarely be a red card. Like in American football when an official calls a rarely penalized , as the announcers say, "a ticky tacky call"....that's what that was. In just about every game, you'd be sending numerous players off if the interpretations was so strict. Soccer is a very physical sport, especially at the world class level.

Bull poop call, in my opinion. Warning or yellow at the worst.

The call is a good example of the bad side of VAR. In real-time, it’s nothing. At most angles, it’s nothing. At THAT angle, in slow-motion, it’s an ankle-breaker that “needed to be addressed.”

I always found Law 12 way too subjective when it came to “serious fouls.”

 

[Jake S]

The call is a good example of the bad side of VAR. In real-time, it’s nothing. At most angles, it’s nothing. At THAT angle, in slow-motion, it’s an ankle-breaker that “needed to be addressed.”

I always found Law 12 way too subjective when it came to “serious fouls.”

Exactly. We can’t be adjudicating these calls on freeze frames, it gives a totally warped perspective.

 

[Mad Dog]

Exactly. We can’t be adjudicating these calls on freeze frames, it gives a totally warped perspective.

If they'd freeze frame every close physical play during an entire high level match, teams would be playing with 4 or 5 players on the field after over zealous red cards .Guaranteed.