10 Most Controversial Decisions in Football

Video Assistant Referee or VAR has now recently been introduced in football, and the rate of controversial goals has reduced but recently we had an incident on the Euro semi-final game of England vs Denmark where Sterling's fall on the penalty box was declared for a penalty. This raised the eyebrows of the football fans all over the world questioning why the referee didn't use the VAR for the penalty check. But there are lots of incidents that have questioned the power of the referees in the game of football. We have gathered 10 such incidents where controversies have crossed the lines and have gone way beyond. Enjoy.

[bubbles_]

Also, the England / Denmark match also had a clear case of England fans using green lasers on the danish keeper during the penalty kick.

[heheh]

Italy vs south korea and spain vs south korea in the same world cup (2002).

[justkibet]

That France's unfair win against Ireland went ahead to haunt them in the 2010 world cup. They had their worst campaign.

[Karachi-ho]

The Sterling/Kane dive partnership.

Kane always turns, waits a second, dives and clutches his ankles even though there is no touch. Sits and gets up and plays on again and again.
Sterling dives all by himself 🏅

[jamessweeney]

Fun fact: With kanes penalty v Denmark the keeper was distracted by a laser that the England fans were shining on his face to block his vision

[a.j.c]

“The most bizarre goal you will ever see in football”
Me waiting the whole time to see it realizing he put in less then a second of the film

[michaeljurik]

Even being from England, I think what sterling did was really disrespectful.

[StrikerFN]

God bless to the 1% who see this comment

[philliplarsen]

That Denmark one really made me realize how much i love the sport, and how much it can hurt. GGs to England tho, they had the most control over the game and were by far the best. But what a way to win it.

[jdosser]

2 ref decisions that always stick in my mind was Stephen Hunt not getting sent off for nearly killing Petr Cech and Chelsea v Barcelona 2009. Both were appalling decisions. Hunt nearly killed a man and forced Cech to play with a scrum cap for the rest of his playing career and Barca went on to win the Champions League because the ref failed to give 4 penalties and send off both Eto'o and Pique.

[yourrocketsdealer]

as a barca fan i have to say WHAT WAS THAT GUY THINKING WHEN HE REFFED THE BARCE CHELSEA GAME

[louiscorydon]

When Kane took the penalty against Denmark, Schmeicle caught a laser in his face.

[seanocallaghan]

This feels like a video the sidemen would react to

[dagratrovni]

i think that the spurs-man city game had no matchfixing or wrong decisions. It hit llorente's thigh and aguero was offside.

[louisesrensen]

When sterling dived he ran past another ball, and the rules say that if another ball is seen to be a distraction in the game, or being too close, the game must be stopped and the ball has to be removed. The referee missed 2 mistakes, that ended in Englands win over denmark

[freddiewhittaker]

The Spurs city one wasn’t controversial, you could clearly see it came off llorentes hip, and aguero was offside

[Cliffhanger]

City vs spurs decision was spot on and on the point both times

[meganwigzell]

That England goal should never had been a penilty

[paulmarchlewski]

You've all forgotten the German goalie Schummacer nearly offing the France centre forward, punching half his teeth out, and not even getting booked let alone arrested. Surprise surprise the French captain, one Michel Plattini, him of EUFA notoriety, hardly bothered complaining about it!

[janpedersen]

The worst part is, the first one with Denmark where England got a penalty... Kasper was blinded with a lazer on top of it, and they had already informed the ref before hand that someone was trying to blind him with a green lazer...
England also had most of their main event matches on homefield advantage compared to other countries.
not to mention, that English fans had forced themself in betwen the Danish ones and harrased them by spitting on them as well.
and dont forget, the disrespect of booing during a national anthem.
Overall... Very poor performance from England and their fans, and they should have been disqualified had it been any other country with all thos bad behaviors they would have been.

Edited: Oh ya, and all UEFA did was give them a small slap on the wrist like "shame on you, heres a peanut fine, that wont even compare to the amount of money you guys made on it".