This is the point that is often getting lost between commentators and writers etc. The penalty for fouling in the box is a free shot at goal. It's not a right for any player if they are challenged regardless of physical contact or not.thejackhammer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:48 am It wasn't a penalty.
Football is not a non-contact sport, the rule is that contact has to be "sufficient to bring the player down." Salah dives over, Masuaku's contact did not bring him down.
Salah should be staring down a three match retrospective ban but no one has got one of those since Lanzini.
There are loads of issues with the modern game that just make you despair at the officiating from the 5 yard start for any shy to the routine foul if another player runs across someone. How many times have you seen a player get caught for speed but just decides to cut across and 'win the foul' if that is such a thing.
You get the refs you deserve I guess and my hope for VAR was that it would correct behaviour over time but it seems to only be used to arbitrate when it feels like it.