Do you think they should remove the advantage rule on fouls as well? The injury risk increases if the referee allows the game to go on compared to if people are standing around a free kick.
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[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Tottenham Hotspur *** Official Match Thread ***
- Thread starter Dick Head
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I think that's what the discussion was about really. Where the lino has got it wrong, and a corner results - will the semi-automated VAR kick-in. And the answer seems to be no.
nwgull
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So on the basis that it prevented a small risk on injury in that 5 seconds of play, would you be happy if an attack that put an Albion player through 1-on-1 with the keeper was immediately flagged offside by the on-field official without letting it play out, only to see on the replay a few seconds later that it was onside ?
Injuries occur all the time, and at all sorts of innocuous moments such as Webster playing a pass out of defence on Sunday
nwgull
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Correct. I it were to intevene and cross check on every single on-field decision, the game would become unwatchable. The line has to be drawn somewhere in terms of signficicance of the decision, and I think that goals, penalties and red cards is about right. Despite the usual excitement in the crowd, corners rarely lead to anything.
Especially ours....
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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I wasn't necessarily arguing against the rule.
You said you didn't get the injury argument so I explained what I thought that argument was.
That said I do have some sympathy for it if play is allowed to go on when it's clear there is an offside in the build up. If it's tight then I agree it's a decent rule.