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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5217258" data-attributes="member: 19675">I got you- there was a foul by the Slovenians by the Americans which resulted in the whistle which made the play dead, resulting in no-goal.This is one where- taking into account the quickness of the play vs. the whistle- there ought to be a way for a ref to essentially overturn his own call.  Refs in American football can pick up a flag they've thrown...and for certain penalties, they can allow a play to continue until it fully resolves.  And a hockey ref can have a "delayed" penalty to allow for the flow of play to continue so the aggrieved team can press its advantage if its within the flow of play.  In either case, despite a penalty being committed and being witnessed by the ref, the aggrieved team doesn't lose a scoring opportunity.A penalty in sports is designed to prevent the team that committed it from getting an unfair advantage.  Here, the team that got caught committing a penalty did actually benefit.In such a situation, a quick replay review would not be truly harmful.  The ref's call wouldn't so much be overturned as deemed irrelevant.</blockquote>