England could have helped set the standard over the past year but they buried their heads and let the rest of the world set the lower bar. Now the PL looks rediculous enforcing a standard that is so far away from EVERY league and tournament in the world.
VAR only gets involved for encroachment if a player who entered before the PK was the player who got to the ball after the save/miss. That's what happened here.
As for the ball hitting the ref, the law states that a dropped ball should happen if the ball hitting the ref causes a change of...
The whole "we're gonna apply the laws differently here because we disagree with the interpretations" would make a lot more sense if the home nations didn't have 4 of the 8 votes on the board that makes the laws in the first place.
If you really have nothing better to do, IFAB produced a presentation with all the law changes and video examples to go with them.
The handling section in law 12 is probably the most useful. It goes line by line through the new law and gives plenty of examples...
Since we're getting close to the new season and the Women' World Cup was without officiating controversy (/s), I figured I'd shamelessly bump this thread from March.
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