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Just now, Bonbon19 said:

Belleisle . Record it just in case the worlds greatest ever team gets beat . 

Maguire Stones, divers sterling kane grealish and a bombscare pickford if thats the team were to win the euros would be the worst in the history of the euros but wont happen confident italy will beat them especially the run they are on.

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2 minutes ago, Lorielus said:

England are hereby banned from ever complaining about the Hand of God again - that was every bit as egregious a piece of cheating from Sterling.

VAR failing to even advise the referee to review it is nothing short of suspicious.

Many already quoting hand of God and a hundred other decisions that have gone against them (including Danish free kick tonight) as justification for accepting dodgy decision tonight. 

None of those alleged injustices were verified by VAR! 

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3 minutes ago, Guff92 said:

Two balls in the park at the moment of the dive as well. Game should have been stopped.

The ref remembered that rule in the 2nd half of extra time as the Danes took a throw-in and a second ball made its way back onto the park. 

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5 minutes ago, casual observer said:

It’s one and the same - they are human Video monitor referees so will constantly make human mistakes. 

Making a mistake in real-time can be understandable. Watching it back in slo-mo and still getting it wrong is unforgivable. f**k me even Lee Dixon got it right on second viewing. 

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Although it was Sterling who dived for the decisive penalty, I think it must just be part of the culture of white English players to dive and play act. 


The pundits rightly ridiculed Immobile the other night - ‘ it’s just part of the culture ‘ in their greasy woppish country apparently. Kane and Grealish behave in an identical fashion. But it’s ‘clever play’ when they do it.

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34 minutes ago, Zorro said:

Making a mistake in real-time can be understandable. Watching it back in slo-mo and still getting it wrong is unforgivable. f**k me even Lee Dixon got it right on second viewing. 

So tonight and countless instances last season proves VAR is only as good as the ref in charge of it, and generally but not always they back up their colleagues despite obvious evidence to the contrary. Less mistakes occur, but it’s a nonsense to still have obvious errors and it’s down to the human element. It’s not fit for purpose in its current form as tonight proved. 

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8 hours ago, casual observer said:

So tonight and countless instances last season proves VAR is only as good as the ref in charge of it, and generally but not always they back up their colleagues despite obvious evidence to the contrary. Less mistakes occur, but it’s a nonsense to still have obvious errors and it’s down to the human element. It’s not fit for purpose in its current form as tonight proved. 

Less errors than the previous system, which relied solely on the human element, so it’s not fit for purpose? Now I’m unsure if you’re a Luddite proposing going back to the good old day, where these things even themselves out over a season or a technophile proposing the removal of humans from the equation altogether. Either way, you’re wrong. 
 

All you need to do is remove the phrase clear and obvious error from the instructions to the VAR team and tell refs to park their ego. Job done. 

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While it genuinely hurt me to watch and listen to that last night, the truth is that for whatever reason be it tiredness or genuine lack of squad depth Denmark offered nothing in that game beyond about the 60th minute.  There was only one team looking like they were trying to win it from that point on but they still needed referee/ VAR assistance to get there. f it is a weak ref in the final I’d expect a similar sort of outcome. 

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Firstly let mw Say, rhe better team won last night.

However, if thats a oenalty then the game is done.  Even the divijg little fanny Sterling almost admitted luve in TV he dived, before rapidly saying he felt the Danish player touch his leg so it was a oenalty.  WTAF!!!!

Theyve had almost every break of rhe ball the wholw tournament, and the hyoerbole of the media and the fans is just reaching insane levels.

One guy actually said theyve a truly Amazinf squad, full of world class players!!!!!!

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The hope that Italy can beat them in the final is really all we have to cling on to and the tag they will have to endure as the team who blew their big chance after 55 years in front of a capacity crowd in their own back yard .

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Desperate attempt to justify decision in the Guardian: 

"The penalty came with 12 minutes gone in extra time and Denmark paddling. Sterling did that thing he does, running into contact, toe to toe, taking his man into that uncomfortable place. A tired leg touched the back of his calf as he skipped through. Sterling went down. There were protests, wagged fingers, outrage. VAR upheld the call, which was perhaps based on sound as much as vision, the click of boot on leg."

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2021/jul/07/england-emerge-into-the-light-after-a-night-of-noirish-nordic-drama

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