Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
You couldn't make a clearer case for penalty goals than tonight's game. Rebic is about to tap the ball into an empty net when he's brought down from behind. Modric should never have had to take a penalty, Schmeichel should never have had the chance to save it, Croatia should have been awarded the goal they had been cheated out of, and justice would have been done.

There are penalty tries in Rugby, it works there and no one complains, it works well. But not football, it isn't even considered, football prefers to be on the side of the cheats.
Great argument pity that it is outside The Laws of the Game! FIFA would rather mess about with everything else rather than give the officials such a clear indication about things like this sinkov. I think that, even if they did consider this, they would have twenty eight referrrals to their new VAR toy before deciding what actually might have happened. They would probably also want to bring in hawkeye to determine the track of the ball and whether or not it would have ended up in the net.