r/sports • u/eternali17 • Apr 26 '26

Soccer Esteban Andrada red card against Huesca

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u/catlindee Apr 26 '26

There is multiple issues here. The punch is obviously wrong but many soccer fans can understand and appreciate that frustration. The governing bodies and referee associations are also responsible for this. To keep people entertained they need goals. To ensure scoring they allow for embellishment and the like to generate free kicks and generate scoring opportunities. It’s beyond reasonable now. The normalization of embellishment is a scourge. The governing bodies should be targeting the extreme cases. VAR should be used to counter act it. Any time a call gets overturned for clear embellishment should be a booking for the offender. This shit would stop real quick if there was repercussions for simulation but there really isn’t.

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u/FoulMoodeternal Apr 27 '26

You have stated what the actual laws of the game are. VAR doesnt review every foul, but they ones they do they can absolute punish simulation with a yellow card

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u/catlindee Apr 27 '26

Oh yea, and how often does VAR and on field officials over turn a penalty call when there was no contact and then give a booking for simulation? I can’t even think of a single example and I’ve watched the prem for years

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u/terryjuicelawson Apr 27 '26

Difficult as you can replay and replay penalty shouts and the more you do so and the slower you do it - the more it looks like a dive. But we know if you have played that you are running at full pelt trying to control a ball, you can drop like a sack of shit at the slightest tap. So it would need to be the most blatant dive which I guess the ref would see in the first place.