Jimmy_041 wrote:shoe boy wrote:Watching The Euro Soccer and diving in the box still a skill!!
Finally found something we agree on
Still a blight on the game
England were very lucky to get that penalty
Ridiculous that the VAR allowed it
VAR had no choice as all they can determine is whether there was contact or no contact. Whilst it was extremely minimal there was 100% contact made so the decision had to stay.
The issues comes in that it is impossible for a VAR to determine whether an amount of force or contact 'should' bring a player down. A player hitting the deck is a balance issue and can be effected by speed, angle of contact, moment contact is made etc etc keeping in mind one of the most successful tackles in rugby is the ankle tap.
If you running at fall sprinting speed, changing direction and your ankle/foot is tapped it doesn't take much to make them fall, I mean in rugby I'm 80kg and I've easily brought down 120+ kilo blokes with a well timed ankle tap.