Dale Johnson
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325 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Dale Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and you can't disallow goals for fouls which would never have been given on the field in the first place.
Otherwise, you've got a two-tier situation whereby you're having one threshold in VAR and one threshold on the pitch.
And if they don't match and come together properly, then you have situations like this.
And let's look at another one, actually, in the Germany-Ecuador game a couple of weeks ago where there was a high boot into the face of one of the Ecuador players.
and Leroy Sane's goal is allowed to stand.
And that just shows another area of inconsistency where that was a clear boot to the face, yet the VAR didn't get involved.
And today you've got something which is 17 seconds back in the move where people didn't even realise anything had happened, yet this time the VAR does get involved and disallows the goal.
And it just gives that feeling of inconsistency and the fans don't really understand what is happening with VAR and when the intervention is actually going to happen.
Another point on the Salah one.
Now, if that foul had happened outside the penalty area, we may well have seen the VAR get involved and given the foul and disallowed the goal.
But because the potential foul took place in the penalty area, that means it's a potential penalty, so the threshold's even higher because it needs to be a proper, clear foul for the VAR to give a penalty, and that makes it even more confusing for people.
Yeah, it was France-Senegal when Mbappe was going to get a penalty, and the referee didn't give the penalty.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, so it's used about one every three games in the World Cup.
It's about just under one every three in the Premier League.
So it's being used more in the World Cup.
But I think perception has changed slightly.
I think during the group stage, people had the idea that VAR was staying out of things and being quite consistent.
But I think...
When we've got some knockout rounds, I think there's been quite a few incidents like we've seen today where people are starting to think, yeah, maybe it isn't quite so smooth.
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