Ref Watch

[Alan Harper's Tash]

No answer the fucking question.

I don’t know as it didn’t happen.

Conspiracy theorists would suggest that it definitely wouldn’t have been, but with little evidence apart from gut feel.

 

[cleavers]

That doesn’t mean that he can’t go and check to see if there was a foul in the build up to a goal.

But he was instructed to do that, that is my problem with it, and the evidence gave him no choice but to over turn it, even at that point he could have said "goal because I've been letting that go all game", but it would have been even more heavily debated in the media.

The right result today would have been a draw, both teams played hard, and both had their merits, but VAR has determined the result imho.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

But he was instructed to that, that is my problem with it, and the evidence gave him no choice but to over turn it, even at that point he could have said "goal because I've been letting that go all game", but it would have been even more heavily debated in the media.

The right result today would have been a draw, both teams played hard, and both had their merits, but VAR has determined the result imho.

Don’t hugely disagree. It was up to Taylor to decide whether he thought it was a foul when he saw it again. He thought it was.

 

[davek1808]

I don’t know as it didn’t happen.

Conspiracy theorists would suggest that it definitely wouldn’t have been, but with little evidence apart from gut feel.

We all know full well at a baying klanfield it wouldn't have been.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

We all know full well at a baying klanfield it wouldn't have been.

No, you believe you know. Neither of us is clairvoyant.

 

[cheekybids]

Fabinho's arm is on Haaland first, leading Haaland to stumble slightly so he grabs Fabinho's shirt. Fabinho initiates so 50/50, let play go on, as he did

That bit wasn’t shown.

 

[Dodgy Gangster]

Having contemplated it for a few hours, I can’t really class this as an awful or even a poor refereeing display. I think on balance he was fair to us. He gave the goal, it’s not his fault if some pedantic twat in the VAR truck was scouring the footage for a reason, any little reason, to disallow it.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Fabinho's arm is on Haaland first, leading Haaland to stumble slightly so he grabs Fabinho's shirt. Fabinho initiates so 50/50, let play go on, as he did

It’s a contact sport though. Shirt pulls mean a foul, an arm on an opponent isn’t necessarily a foul.

 

[davek1808]

No, you believe you know. Neither of us is clairvoyant.

Yeah right you're not naive are you lol fucking years of watching decisions there and at the swamp would prove me right.

 

[cheekybids]

I don’t know as it didn’t happen.

Conspiracy theorists would suggest that it definitely wouldn’t have been, but with little evidence apart from gut feel.

40 years of bad decisions at Anfield is the evidence that I’d use. Same as when there was 2 handballs within 30 seconds of them scoring years ago & no VAR.

It’s ok playing devils advocate. Pep isn’t one for excuses but he knows.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Yeah right you're not naive are you lol fucking years of watching decisions there and at the swamp would prove me right.

Fans love to feel hard done by. It’s why football gets so many column inches.

Every single club’s fans believe everything is against them. We are no different.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

40 years of bad decisions at Anfield is the evidence that I’d use. Same as when there was 2 handballs within 30 seconds of them scoring years ago & no VAR.

It’s ok playing devils advocate. Pep isn’t one for excuses but he knows.

VAR has been around for about 5 years.

If you pull a shirt of an opponent, you run the risk of being penalised.

 

[davek1808]

It’s a contact sport though. Shirt pulls mean a foul, an arm on an opponent isn’t necessarily a foul.

So by your reckoning every shirt pull in the area is a foul then shut up making yourself sound like an absolute tool.

 

[cleavers]

Don’t hugely disagree. It was up to Taylor to decide whether he thought it was a foul when he saw it again. He thought it was.

I don't agree with that, he decided had "no choice" but to give it, as he knew it was all over the TV already, in the context of the whole game it makes him "inconsistent" though.

I actually have sympathy for him, and I never thought I'd ever say that about him, I doubt he wanted to disallow the goal, and he reffed the game really well imho, making it a good spectical for the millions watching, my problem is var interfering when it had no need to do so.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

So by your reckoning every shirt pull in the area is a foul then shut up making yourself sound like an absolute tool.

If they change the outcome of the attack, then yes, absolutely.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I don't agree with that, he decided had "no choice" but to give it, as he knew it was all over the TV already, in the context of the whole game it makes him "inconsistent" though.

I actually have sympathy for him, and I never thought I'd ever say that about him, I doubt he wanted to disallow the goal, and he reffed the game really well imho, making it a good spectical for the millions watching, my problem is var interfering when it had no need to do so.

Even though there was a blatant pull of a shirt?

 

[Ali B's Heel]

It’s a contact sport though. Shirt pulls mean a foul, an arm on an opponent isn’t necessarily a foul.

Just saw on sky's YouTube highlights, Haaland was the player in control of the ball, makes a run inside and Fabinho's knee clashes with Haaland's in the same play, before the pull by Haaland which in insolation would be a foul, but again fabinho wasn't in control of the ball up to then, and fabinho may have been on the way down in any case

 

[meltonblue]

It wouldn't have been given at the other end in fact it wouldn't have been looked at full stop.

Had it not been given at the other end would you have been happy with the decision? As I definitely wouldn’t.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Just saw on sky's YouTube highlights, Haaland was the player in control of the ball, makes a run inside and Fabinho's knee clashes with Haaland's in the same play, before the pull by Haaland which in insolation would be a foul, but again fabinho wasn't in control of the ball up to then

Fair enough blue. I’m not going to labour the point. I can see why it was disallowed and don’t have a huge issue with it. I don’t think it’s a howler of a decision.

 

[cleavers]

Even though there was a blatant pull of a shirt?

It was far from "blatent" until var got involved, but I think you're just being contrary now, so I'm going elsewhere for the night, happy wumming.