The German federation (DFB) this week took the surprising step to call out its own referees on handball decisions. Over the past two Bundesliga weekends, it claimed, there had been four erroneous handball calls in the penalty area. Yes, apparently refs and their VAR colleagues in the now notorious Cellar of Cologne are still messing up critical calls, despite FIFA’s endless re-writing of the handball law for “clarification”.
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