Newcastle - West Ham starts us off as the early game.
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Perfect encapsulation of how you can’t get words on paper to fully capture the offside rule. There’s no world in which you want that called as an offside, but the current language creates needless ambiguity.Edit: even after a rather bizarre check for offside. The initial pass - to an offside Gordon - was intercepted and tapped directly back to Gordon. Apparently they were looking at whether the interception was “deliberate”
Players have taken advantage of the head injury rule to stall the game, and this felt like a pretty clear case of that.Should have held the free kick while the player was still down. Tough break for Newcastle.
I can see that. But the ref was walking over to check on the player (or tell him to get up) and wasn’t focused on the restart. I don’t have a dog in this fight, but I sympathize with the Newcastle fans here.Players have taken advantage of the head injury rule to stall the game, and this felt like a pretty clear case of that.
Potential to backfire on the official, but I like that he allows the quick restart if only to discourage future phantom head injuries when a trailing arm barely brushes someone's head.
There’s no attempt to play the ball. He’s deliberately getting himself kicked. It can’t be a penalty.Very similar to the first one actually .. Phillips is swinging his leg to clear the ball and Gordon sticks his leg in front … I have never understood why it’s a penalty - Robertson against Spurs a few years ago comes to mind.
A bump is probably giving it too much credit. Another tragedy of a decisionSpeaking of terrible penalty calls - Burnley give up a PEN from a bump - adding insult the subsequent yellow sees Burnley down to 10 and the manager with a Red as well
He hasn’t ever shown that he has two brain cells to rub together. This seems like a helluva stretch.Are we sure Anthony Gordon didn't get suspended on purpose so he plays no role in relegating Everton???
More like the opposite.No breaks from VAR today with guess who in the booth