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I'm wondering whether they're frightened of threats against them from Utd fans ?
It's the only reason I can think of for this.
Don’t you just love to see it!
Here is the reason why VAR allowed the goal to stay. It really shows what a farce VAR really is though. And now players now will train on how not to make handballs look deliberate just as they used to deliberately aim at players' hands before to get penalities (and, no, I do not feel sorry for Man Utd).
I wish this rule had applied to VAR rules back in 2019 when Mane deliberately aimed at Sissoko's waving hands...
PS! I agree that in cases like Carroll heading into Dier's hand from 1 meter away while Dier has his back turned to the ball and player should NOT be deemed handball.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Duncan Watmore handled the ball before finding Matt Crooks, who scored.
But the tweaked law says a goal will only be disallowed if the scorer handles the ball — not the player in possession before him.
Referee Anthony Taylor could have blown if he believed there had been a deliberate handball by the Boro man.
He didn’t think it was deliberate because a miscontrol by Watmore meant the ball flicked up to hit his arm, and I agree with that verdict.
It was accidental, so it was right that the goal stood.
I wish this rule had applied to VAR rules back in 2019 when Mane deliberately aimed at Sissoko's waving hands...
PS! I agree that in cases like Carroll heading into Dier's hand from 1 meter away while Dier has his back turned to the ball and player should NOT be deemed handball.
MARK CLATTENBURG: VAR was right to allow Middlesbrough equaliser
MARK CLATTENBURG: The law says a goal will only be disallowed if the scorer handles the ball - not the player in possession before him.
MARK CLATTENBURG: VAR was right to allow Middlesbrough's controversial equaliser to stand because ref Anthony Taylor believed Duncan Watmore's handball was accidental and the law was changed last summer
- Equaliser was allowed to stand due to change to the handball law last summer
- Duncan Watmore's control of the ball with his hand was viewed as accidental
- And because Matt Crooks scored, and not Watmore, it was the right decision
Duncan Watmore handled the ball before finding Matt Crooks, who scored.
But the tweaked law says a goal will only be disallowed if the scorer handles the ball — not the player in possession before him.
Referee Anthony Taylor could have blown if he believed there had been a deliberate handball by the Boro man.
He didn’t think it was deliberate because a miscontrol by Watmore meant the ball flicked up to hit his arm, and I agree with that verdict.
It was accidental, so it was right that the goal stood.
"Middlesbrough's win at Manchester United on Friday is the big shock of the round so far.
"Was it really an upset?" asks former Tottenham and Republic of Ireland forward Robbie Keane on ITV4."
"Was it really an upset?" asks former Tottenham and Republic of Ireland forward Robbie Keane on ITV4."
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In the current rules that goal is fine.
We got fucked by the same rule earlier in the season though
You know it’s get reviewed now though!
We got fucked by the same rule earlier in the season though
You know it’s get reviewed now though!
So it's small time of the club to not pay the quid for a juice, but big time Zlatan is butthurt about having had to pay a quid for his fruit shoot?
I've noticed that the Redcafe crew seem to have reached the point of acceptance with their club now.
In the first few years of their new reality, they would be apoplectic & explode with fury at disastrous results - but now, after almost a decade of being a banter club, they seem to have come to terms with their also-ran status & are no longer surprised by these regular humiliations.
It's a beautiful thing.
In the first few years of their new reality, they would be apoplectic & explode with fury at disastrous results - but now, after almost a decade of being a banter club, they seem to have come to terms with their also-ran status & are no longer surprised by these regular humiliations.
It's a beautiful thing.
So why haven't we? We've been a banter club since the early 90s lol
But they had reached a point where they felt entitled to win trophies.
If you rad this forum enough, we have the same sort of fans.