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Where the hell is Ronaldo?

Why doesn't soccer have instant replay for the refs? All I can come up with is they like the spectacle and outrage of blatant floppers getting awarded free kicks. Without that outrage they would have to invent a new excuse to riot.

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A few leagues have been using the VAR system (video assistant referee) for a while now, and it'll also be used at the upcoming World Cup in Russia.

They only interfere in case of obviously incorrect decisions by the ref or situations of significant impact (i.e. penalties, send-offs, off-side goals, etc). This particular case would have led to the ref booking the attacker for a dive.

Works pretty well in Germany these days after going through some issues in the first half of this season.

I can't even say how disgusted I am at the sportsmanship of players like this. Any league that allows this isn't worth my time. Players should suspended when footage like this comes to light.

Seems pretty clear that the guy on the ground(after getting pushed there) actually TRIED to trip the yellow player, with BOTH of his legs. No contact though. Hard to swallow a flop winning the game like this, the win should be vacated.

I'd love to see his spit take!

The defender actually did come in contact with the attacker. Did he really take him down? No. He still "fouled" the attacker.

Sorry, don't know if footbol calls it fouling.

in hockey, you get a talking to by your own players and they also have supplementary punishments after the fact, but they are pretty light and not likely very helpful in deterring the behavior

The reason (traditionally) is that soccer does not have many long interruptions, like American football or Baseball. Free-Kick, Throw-In, Change-ins, even Penalty shots - everything happens quite fast and barely has influence on the game time of 90 minutes. There is only one longer break in-between. So the 3 Refs on the field usually have 1 other Ref standing on the sidelines who will give his overview input on things they may have missed. He is the only one who would be able to evaluate video material - but that would have to happen extremely fast, with barely any discussion.

For anyone who is really interested in how the referee team works together during large matches, I'd really recommend the documentation "Referees at work". Here is an example of the controversial ref decision by Howard Webb and also how they discuss a potential dive / foul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOaxTdoIgT0

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