Because I am a sad bastard, I have just watched a football match and concentrated on the the natural position of the players arms.When they all walked or run their arms moved away from their bodies in a forward and backwards motion. Not one player walked or run with his arms straight down by his side. I kid you not, have a look for yourselves!!What is this 'natural' position crap I hear every week from the Premier League big knobs. The only unnatural positions I see is when a defender puts his arms behind his back when going in for a block instead of protecting the family jewels.Villa get more than their fair share of penalties awarded against them for having arms. This 'natural' position of your arms lark needs to be clearly defined, or better still, scrapped altogether. Any fool knows the difference between a deliberate and accidental handball. At least we did before VAR.Natural, my arse.
Peter walton is a bellend but the bit about offside just was really interesting. Saying that the system at the world cup involves a chip in the ball that triggers when it's been kicked (so I assume a multi-direction accelerometer) and it 'pings' the server on kick which then snapshots the position of players and can give an instant offside decision. That is exactly what should've been implemented alongside the very first version of VAR because it makes it a factual decision and gets rid of one of the most contested parts of the whole concept.
VAR was at fault for not giving Canada a second pen.
Surely the correct thing to do is give the goal retrospectively, or award whatever points has been denied by mistakes? If they are hellbent on trying to remove all mistakes from the game, surely they can alter results afterwards?
It's funny because it's Chelsea, but what an absolutely horrendous decision not to give a penalty against Soucek for handball. PGMOL have said it's because the hand that touched the ball was used to support him as he fell over. He didn't fall over, he dived to save it!