Soccer (Closing)

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.

The check finally cleared I suppose. 🙄

The UEFA interpretation of the handball law is just awful. No one that has ever played football before could think that should be a penalty

The handball rule/decisions in Europe are fkn whack. Only a matter of time before this happened at a truly consequential moment

Man United - Copenhagen was a wild match but neither of those ‘should’ be hand balls if common sense is involved. Can’t remember the others off the top of my head but I’ve disliked pretty much every handball call I’ve seen in the CL this season

So unfair, but then being owned by a state is also unfair in the larger context

Insane

they waved off the one from Miley but then give this one? Handball rule is truly fascinating

Also have about 2 PSG players in the box/D when he hits it. Should have retaken it.

A lil’ push for the almighty P$G; never a fucking penalty 😔

If anyone’s played the game you literally can’t do anything with your arms there. Absolutely shocking call.

Time to act like a geordie and make up 45 reasons why this was a Penalty 🙂

Absolutely not a penalty

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.

Qataris money > Saudi money

That penalty probably puts PSG through. Absolute fuckery to give that

Same situation refereed completely differently by the VAR in the same game. The ref shouldn’t even have had to take a look at the Tino one because the outcome should have been no penalty after a couple of reviews.

4.5xg for PSG, not quite robbery

the sooner we run out of oil the better.

Never a pen but I guess you have to just accept the refs decision and move on. Surely Eddie Howe agrees.

It’s funny how the same game is played with different rules every day.

So to try to understand what the thought process was a bit more I went to IFAB, and technically the « chest to arm » scenario isn’t covered.

The closest we have is this :

a player heads/kicks the ball and it then hits their own hand/arm? This is not handball (unless the ball goes directly into the opponents’ goal or the player scores immediately afterwards, in which case a direct free kick is awarded to the other team).

This might seem like semantics but maybe the fact it’s not covered is why he went with it ?

Either way it shouldn’t be a thing, a player simply cannot control or predict where the ball is going in this situation. It’s just too unfair to give a penalty for that.

A bit tiring to see the same comment over and over : intent does not matter, hitting another part of the body does not matter : read rule 12 it's easy to find (I just did because I thought the other body part was in the rule as well : it's not it's just a PL thing).

I do agree it's harsh but the first handball earlier in the 2nd half should definitely have been given so in my biased opinion, it evens out.

Last thing, if I ever want someone to take this penalty, it's Kylian. The lad just seems unfazed while 40k people are shitting themselves in the stands.

Merry christmas!

P$G

jesus christ this is horrible. Defenders need to get together and demand change. This is lunacy.

I gotta say as a neutral I thought there’s no way I could get a good result out of this match but boy was I wrong.

Ref will probably end up chopped into pieces after the match.

Abolish pens (for obviously non deliberate handballs at the very least)

Handball all day

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.

I hate the Champions League handball rule.

u/SaveVideo

Man seeing him celebrate a 98th minute equaliser against us - and this XI specifically - his hilarious surreal shit.

Qatar gets a dodgy call versus Saudi Arabia. Oh no... Anyway

The game of which oil money are we afraid of more lmao.

Defender clearly used his hand as a weapon to attack the ball, good process boys

Only way that's a penalty is if you're playing against Wolves in the prem

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.

What is the defender supposed to do?

As shit of a decision as it is, it is correct under current UEFA handball guidelines

The amount they favour the attacking side is a slight pisstake

Never a penalty. Absolutely ridiculous call and some home cooking in Paris

Reece James did the exact same thing in the 2021 UCL final and no penalty was given. Inconsistencies everywhere…

rigged

Never a pen, you can’t justify this fuckery

Terrible decision. Not a penalty.

we're not getting the ref comms on this call, are we? 😂

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?

Why do football fans know the rules better than the referees?? It's really concerning.

vell dun boyz, dobra procez

I was rooting for Newcastle. Then this happened. Absolutely horrible.