I thought it might be an idea to open a thread to discuss VAR decisions. It shouldn't really be necessary as VAR (and goal-line tech) should end debate. Yet the BBC match team in the stadium (I didn't see the studio team) disagreed with the penalty.
While I welcome the introduction of anything that leads to correct decisions being made, it seems human beings can't see the wood for the trees.
I should say straight up that I stopped watching MOTD years ago because of the poor level of commentary to accompany crap English games but I'd forgotten how awful Mark Lawrenson is.
His pro-Australia bias today was entirely out of order - I wanted the Aussies to do well too - but worst of all was his schoolboy interpretation of the laws.
I thought the ref got plenty wrong today but accepting the alert and checking the VAR for the penalty was absolutely the right thing to do. It was a clear penalty.
Lawro seem to think that playing the ball first negates any chance of a tackle being illegal.