Has football become too complicated, or was it always this way?
✋ The confusing handball law
😙 Subjective offside calls
🦵 The crazy world of "deliberate play"
♦️ Double jeopardy + advantage
📺 Of course, VAR
🎉 And it's going to get worse!
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Failure to qualify for the Champions League "could cost Liverpool £120m".
But they are in such a healthy financial position, they are well placed to absorb it despite last summer's big spending.
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How can football fix the corner chaos?
Looking at:
▪️ Refs or players/coaches to blame?
▪️ What managers have been saying
▪️ Set-piece goals highest in PL
▪️ Potential solutions / law changes
▪️ Input from former PL assistant Darren Cann
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You do not have to look far on social media to find images and videos of footballers in unlikely or bizarre situations.
But what can players and clubs do about 'AI slop'?
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The issue was discussed at the Ifab AGB in Wales this weekend.
It was agreed there would be consultation to develop measures to stop players hiding what they might be saying to an opponent.
Fifa will bring in a measure for the World Cup.
And Infantino wants a red card.
Players who cover their mouths when speaking to opponents during confrontations should be sent off, says Fifa president Gianni Infantino.
He says there's no genuine reason to hide what you are saying.
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Fifa referees' chief Pierluigi Collina says there will be further trials of a challenge system as part of a two-year review of VAR.
FA chief Mark Bullingham fully supports the idea.
Could coach reviews be coming to the top level leagues?
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Law changes confirmed:
📌 VAR for corners and 2nd yellows
📌 5-sec countdown on throws and goal-kicks
📌 10-sec countdown on subs
📌 As revealed, players off for 1 min on an injury
📌 Wenger's "daylight" offside trials for Canada from April
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The "clock is ticking" for the Premier League and EFL to end their financial impasse, says the chair of the new regulator.
David Kogan said: "If the leagues can't find a new deal, those powers will be enacted, and [that includes] parachute payments."
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The handling of the 115 charges Manchester City are facing for alleged Premier League financial rule breaches has been "damaging" for the competition, says La Liga president Javier Tebas.
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Expansion, reform and controversy - 10 years of Gianni Infantino as Fifa president.
Charting his rise from the man who made the Champions League draw to the most powerful figure in world football.
More money, but more football and more headlines.
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"Uefa had to move fast"
Analysis of Uefa's decision to provisionally ban Benfica's Gianluca Prestianni for discriminatory behaviour.
Including very clear precedent from a past case in similar circumstances.
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Injured players could be forced to stay off for one minute under proposals from Fifa.
Fifa has trialled two minutes but BBC Sport understands there has been push-back from leagues.
It will be discussed and voted on at the Ifab AGM on Saturday.
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Scotland now all but certain to lose its second Champions League place.
It gets worse:
🔷 European allocation drops 5 to 4
🔷 Runners-up only get Conference League by right
🔷 All teams in qualifying rounds earlier
🔷 Champions could miss league phase
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Will be confirmed as soon as Celtic are knocked out.
Not only in danger, will definitely go down to one UCL place
Chelsea should have been awarded a third penalty in their 3-1 victory at Wolves, the Premier League's KMI Panel has said.
Jose Sa caught Joao Pedro with a raised boot when claiming the ball.
However, it was not to the VAR threshold.
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Often difficult to notice because most of the coverage and complaints is in foreign language media.
Very easy to find articles about Serie A though!
Germany back up to second in the race for the extra Champions League slots.
Italy's implosion this week, with all three Champions League teams losing, further solidifies the Premier League's position of power.
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What is Uefa's racism protocol and is it working?
"It is the least bad of a set of terrible options."
A look at what is expected of a referee, and how the protocol has been put together.
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"VAR works fine everywhere else," we always hear in England.
But is there really a Utopian world of VAR in Europe's top leagues?
A look at how VAR is viewed in Germany, Spain, Italy and France.
A story of fan protests, player anger, and frustration.
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"VAR works fine everywhere else," we always hear in England.
But is there really a Utopian world of VAR in Europe's top leagues?
A look at how VAR is viewed in Germany, Spain, Italy and France.
A story of fan protests, player anger, and frustration.
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Hearts, Rangers or Celtic?
Is the Scottish title race the most exciting in Europe?
A look at five of the closest championship battles on the continent.
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It was DOGSO.
Some analysis of Villa v Newcastle within this article.
❌ Abraham offside
❓ Digne red card
✔️ Bizot red card
❌ Digne handball
❌ Burn offside
For me, the errors appear to be factual and made by the assistant rather than the referee.
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As Rodri gets charged for criticising the referee against Spurs...
The Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel has unanimously voted Rodri should have been sent off against Spurs for two yellows.
And 4:1 that the Solanke goal was correct.
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As Rodri gets charged for criticising the referee against Spurs...
The Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel has unanimously voted Rodri should have been sent off against Spurs for two yellows.
And 4:1 that the Solanke goal was correct.
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Uefa referees' chief Roberto Rosetti says VAR is becoming too forensic.
"At the end of the season we need to speak about this," Rosetti said.
"Because we cannot go in this direction of microscopic VAR interventions. We love football like it is."
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Chelsea should not have been awarded a penalty for handball in their 3-1 win at Crystal Palace last month.
It was awarded after a VAR review.
The Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel voted 5-0 that the on-field call of no pen was correct.
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