Hands up if you don't know the rules

[claptrappers_union]

I've genuinely given in on keeping up with football now. I just don't get the rules.

[Vino blanco]

Don’t worry about, the refs don’t know either.

[GetIntoEm]

Just blame it on Trafford and be a good boy

[claptrappers_union]

VAR brings up something every week, and every week, it's a different explanation. Yet I'm reading stuff like this every week. I'm lost -

Mate, contact in the box; any contact is a penalty

Mate, it's deliberate handball; it looked to have touched the underside of the arm if you slow it right down... That's handball these days. Thems the rules

You can't obstruct the keeper, mate? You know keepers are overly protected these days; it's the rules now

Studs were showing, you can't go in like that. A red card doesn't matter if you win the bell. He was endangering the player

The keeper should been more decisive there, and he was nowhere near the ball. It doesn't matter if he was obstructed.

If it bounces off your body and looks to touch your arm, that's not handball, natural position and that.

Mate, it's football. Yes, he went in hard, but he won the ball. Not even a yellow.

[ElectroClaret]

The keeper should been more decisive there, and he was nowhere near the ball. It doesn't matter if he was obstructed.

Spot on.

[claptrappers_union]

So we now know, that you can float the ball into the centre of the box and get other players to block the keeper.

[Westleigh]

So we now know, that you can float the ball into the centre of the box and get other players to block the keeper.

Sean Dyche did that for years either blocking the keeper or a defender,nothing new there.

[Clive 1960]

i actually thought when we scored they were going to disallow it the luck we have had with VAR...

[scouseclaret]

I've genuinely given in on keeping up with football now. I just don't get the rules.

No problem - you can apply for a job with PGMOL!

[Tricky Trevor]

Sean Dyche did that for years either blocking the keeper or a defender,nothing new there.

Dyche did it differently and legally. He stood players tight behind the keeper and they didn’t move so when the ball was played over them he had no where to go.
The difference last night was the 11 ran into Trafford while making no attempt to head the ball. If he had jumped into Trafford whilst trying to make a header I’d have said fair enough but his feet never leave the ground, he knew exactly what his job was.

[boatshed bill]

Sean Dyche did that for years either blocking the keeper or a defender,nothing new there.

Yes, players are allowed to stand their ground.