The ref clearly got it wrong.
The law states that a penalty must be disallowed if the player feints to kick the ball. That isn't what Son did; he just paused in his run-up. The kick should've been retaken because of encroachment rather than an indirect free kick being given to Rochdale; and Son shouldn't have been booked.
This isn't a problem with VAR. It's a problem with professional referees not knowing the laws of the game.
You can't stop on your run up, has to be one continuous motion - Son could have made a cup of tea, the amount of time he stopped.
Was never a pen in the first place though - foul began outside the box so should have been a free kick.
Law 14 states it's an offence if "feinting to kick the ball once the kicker has completed the run-up (feinting in the run-up is permitted): the referee cautions the kicker".
Son staggered half way through the run from memory not at the end.
Son was in the wrong. The encroaching was a direct result of his stopping.
It's alarming how many professional footballers don't actually know their own sports rules...
It wasn’t outlawed it was clear at the time it was jntroduced (about 20 years ago??). There were a spate of players actually adding this feint to their run ups AFTER the rule was clarified.Law 14 states it's an offence if "feinting to kick the ball once the kicker has completed the run-up (feinting in the run-up is permitted): the referee cautions the kicker".
Son staggered half way through the run from memory not at the end.
It looked to me like he stopped pretty much when he got to the ball.
I knew it had been 'outlawed', I just assumed it would be a re-take. Didn't expect him to get booked and a free-kick against us!!
It wasn’t outlawed it was clear at the time it was jntroduced (about 20 years ago??). There were a spate of players actually adding this feint to their run ups AFTER the rule was clarified.
I’m thinking Dean Saunders was one.
It was all about stopping players from committing the keeper to diving, not just putting him off balance.
I believe the 2016 change was not an alteration to the existing rule on feinting, but that any miscreant would also get a yellow card.It wasn’t outlawed it was clear at the time it was jntroduced (about 20 years ago??). There were a spate of players actually adding this feint to their run ups AFTER the rule was clarified.
I’m thinking Dean Saunders was one.
It was all about stopping players from committing the keeper to diving, not just putting him off balance.
The law was only changed in 2016, by the international football association board
Because every goal is reviewed by the VAR.I don’t get why the ref took the penalty to var?
Where he 'staggered' in his run-up is irrelevant. The offence is 'feinting to kick the ball.....' ie pretending to kick it. He didn't do that.Law 14 states it's an offence if "feinting to kick the ball once the kicker has completed the run-up (feinting in the run-up is permitted): the referee cautions the kicker".
Son staggered half way through the run from memory not at the end.