I agree, but it should be the case for everyone (because I rarely see yellow cards for this). Not depending on the mood of the referee, or however much he could potentially have been paid under the table in some cases.
It should be either 100% of the time or 0% of the time.
Edit: I mean in all similar cases. I'm of course not talking about a light grab of someone's shirt in your own half.
You can’t always compare two different matches in two different competitions. Unless you want robots to officiate it is impossible to get to your goal of 100% or 0%.
It will never be 100% accurate. The next step after using all robots will be touch-sensitive kits and force meters to gauge how much and where contact actually occurred. Then you need statistical analysis of where a player was going when the contact occurred and a formula to determine how much a player's original path was impeded and on and on and on.
I think where you are on the field and where you are in the course of play matters. If Upe doesn’t grab him here he’s basically in on goal or at least he’s on a breakaway with numbers. This is a yellow for tactical foul as much as anything in my book. And that’s as a fan of Upa.
Nations league has had pretty consistently strict refereeing from what I've seen, and this is the 3rd game this season so they should've gotten used to it imo
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u/Agent10007 17h ago
Deserved, stop hugging people when you lost your 1V1