Soccer (Closing)

Shocking decision. But love the absurdity/hilarity of the reaction to this decision by BT commentary team vs Sky and Gary Neville during the Newcastle Arsenal.

I'd never heard the word stooping used with such authoritive and nuanced technicality.

PSG for all the stardom are a pretty poor team.

If Newcastles bench wasn’t full of GKs and 16 year olds they’d of got the win.

PSG and their ultras made to look like right mugs over this fixture.

And this is why the beautiful game has become a joke

A player being punished for that especially after the ref sees the video

like OK man just flip a coin next time, what's the point?

Terrible decision. Not a penalty.

Dude the ball is traveling away from the goal, it's close range, goes off his chest first....what the absolute hell!? Soccer has been so shite this year for refs.

UEFA handball rules are horrible.

PSG has UEFA in their pockets, shaking my head....

Horrendous call. When will clubs start fielding amputees to combat this issue?

You have to say that is objectively deeply deeply funny.

Can’t wrap my brain around who wants to be a defender in todays game, looks like a shit job

I think a lot of us have no idea what the laws are since the commentators have no clue and say things like oh body first never a pen when that might not be in the laws at all.

Booed the hello out of Messi now that he is gonna they have to rob Newcastle lmao

Hit the elbow in the penalty area, counts as a foul. If it was a tackle, then PSG would be rewarded the penalty. Correct me if I'm wrong.

If he didn't handball it there'd be no punishment. It's not fair on clubs who don't handball in their area, regardless of mitigating circumstances.

As long as others are treated the same way in future Newcastle should be punished.

And commentator was saying this is one of the best refs in the world, dude's a fucking knobhead for that terrible decision. UEFA wasn't going to let the scumbag NAK leave sad.

VAR=... various Arabic royalties?

Football is just gradually eroding.

It's a low scoring game. One goal makes a massive difference and it's just becoming so often that difference is nothing to do with skill, all to do with decisions.

I dunno why the football authorities want to make it that way.

Corruption??

in what bloody universe is that a penalty?

It’s not even worth being annoyed at these bullshit calls. It’s all a fucking lottery and you either win or lose

That mbappe ref talk at half time really worked. I need mbappe to talk to my bosses regarding giving me a raise

Couldn't have happened to a nicer team!

Can't wait for the Worldnews update, SA invades Qatar

What is he meant to do? Manipulate the laws of physics?

The check finally cleared I suppose. 🙄

Oilcastle United owners haven't got the hang of the bribes yet. It'll come don't worry lads.

lmao at these sportwashing teams fucking each other and calling for justice lol

Awful decision by the ref there. The ball clearly touches the body first and then it touches the arm.

There is no question about it Newcastle were robbed.

But by god it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving team😂

Best case of karma I have ever seen.

Although, unlike the team Newcastle cheated to get three points, they still got one tonight.

The only way var can review this and believe theres anything in it shows this sports rigged. Impossible that 4 unbias professionals and ref believe this is a penalty. Ceferin and his buddy at P$G are laughing

Wow…

Atleast moving forward, the toon know to all chop their arms off before kick off to stop this from happening

Woeful decision ffs

Horrible call indeed. That was totally unintentional. I can only guess the referees discussed that the "arm was extended away from the body" but that is certainly not an "unnatural position". So I don't get what the rule even is anymore.

and this is why the handball rule is fucked. this ref gave a pen, while something similar will happen in another match and another ref won't give a pen. Doesn't matter what the actual rule is, comes down to the level of delusion that the ref has within him

I think UEFA prefer Qatar oil :)

Ohh nyoo, Newcastle got screwed by VAR?

Don't think I've ever seen such agreement on a decision in a thread tbh

Let me just put it this way, if you replaced Newcastle with Inter...even I would be livid at seeing this call.

What an injustice. Absolutely the wrong call. The defender is pivoting and pushing off so naturally his arms gonna go up for counterbalance. Anyone who's ran fucking knows that, except for the ref.

Soft call

lol this sub is just full of Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool, Man City, Barcelona & Real Madrid fans who can’t take a loss. All teams get fucked by VAR eventually, today it was Arsenals turn. Stop your fucking whinging.

LOL anything to cheat a win

You know it’s a terrible call when you feel righteous anger on behalf of a team you hate

That is truly one of the worst calls I’ve seen

Marciniak z ty debilu.

Rule mentions, if the arm is in an unnatural position. This rule is so dumb, So running like a normal human is unnatural, But gluuing your Arms to you body so the ball doesn't Hit the arms and when it hits it's not a pen, is a natural position

Genius

That’s a terrible call. Was it initially called a handball or was this an overturned non-call through VAR? If it was VAR making the call then just even more proof refs will find the way to rig a game.

He wasn't even going to give it in the first place.

Karma for Arsenal. What goes around comes around.