Referees' Performances | 2025/26

Apologies if posted elswhere, but this just reeks of a Sky Sports employee sticking his substantial nose in to an argument pertaining to one of Sky's favoured teams by putting pressure on the PGMOL. The **** knows exactly what he's doing here, and I bet his employers sanctioned it.

I don't recall Neville actually saying that to be fair.

He just asserted that in his opinion the goal should have stood,. although likewise with Carragher,.it would help if he quoted the whole rule rather than just the bit that suited his argument

Dermot Gallagher quoted the whole rule to prove that it's a grey area, which essentially contradicts the whole idea that VAR brings more consistency.
 
Apologies if posted elswhere, but this just reeks of a Sky Sports employee sticking his substantial nose in to an argument pertaining to one of Sky's favoured teams by putting pressure on the PGMOL. The **** knows exactly what he's doing here, and I bet his employers sanctioned it.


Clear & organised.
 
I’m just happy it went for us.

I can read what is being said and see the difference between this one and Bernardo’s.

As a decision, if I’m honest they make it too complicated. I would be more annoyed if ours was disallowed in those circumstances, then if they had allowed it against us.

Which is the opposite for example of Fernandes/ Rashford where I could accept it being given offside if we scored it, but was fuming when allowed for opposing team.

The rules are always vague enough to let PGMOL justify it, but it probably is the wrong decision overall for me.
 
If Robertson hadn’t ducked the ball would have hit him, he was interfering with play in an offside position.

Therefore correct decision.

Yes. Not sure why you have replied to me with that as I'm pointing out the substantial difference in what Robertson & Bernardo did. Hence showing a picture of Bernardo ducking and to the side of Sa at the point Stones heads it
 
Yes. Not sure why you have replied to me with that as I'm pointing out the substantial difference in what Robertson & Bernardo did. Hence showing a picture of Bernardo ducking and to the side of Sa at the point Stones heads it
Basically I was in full agreement with you, and you have my son's initials so well done.
 
If Robertson hadn’t ducked the ball would have hit him, he was interfering with play in an offside position.

Therefore correct decision.
Although that is probably the largest consideration in the decision, Robertson also moves right across Donnarumma while the ball is arriving on Van Dijk's head so of course he's going to be in his line of sight too.
 
I don't recall Neville actually saying that to be fair.

He just asserted that in his opinion the goal should have stood,. although likewise with Carragher,.it would help if he quoted the whole rule rather than just the bit that suited his argument

Dermot Gallagher quoted the whole rule to prove that it's a grey area, which essentially contradicts the whole idea that VAR brings more consistency.
But surely it’s got sod all to do with VAR. The on field decision was no goal. It was flagged offside. To overrule that there had to be sufficient evidence that a clear and obvious error had been made. No such evidence existed.
The whole controversy has been manufactured by Liverpool FC and their friendly media.
 
Yer right, N, a surprisingly clear explanation but wholly incorrect, which was often the case with Foy.
Sorry DE but that itself is incorrect. The explanation from Foy is spot on, its exactly as the protocol is written.
We may not like how its set out, but with so many levels of input and interpretations, theres always going to be the notorious 'grey' area.
In my day, chortle chortle, he was 100% offside, then we went to was he interfering, yes as he's ducked to avoid the ball 100%. Now we have this somewhat subjective stance, so much more difficult to justify.
Have we improved the law? Not in my view.
 
But surely it’s got sod all to do with VAR. The on field decision was no goal. It was flagged offside. To overrule that there had to be sufficient evidence that a clear and obvious error had been made. No such evidence existed.
The whole controversy has been manufactured by Liverpool FC and their friendly media.
The "clear and obvious error" clause they always claim worked in our favour for a change?
 
Sorry DE but that itself is incorrect. The explanation from Foy is spot on, its exactly as the protocol is written.
We may not like how its set out, but with so many levels of input and interpretations, theres always going to be the notorious 'grey' area.
In my day, chortle chortle, he was 100% offside, then we went to was he interfering, yes as he's ducked to avoid the ball 100%. Now we have this somewhat subjective stance, so much more difficult to justify.
Have we improved the law? Not in my view.
The laws have been constantly degraded as they've attempted to explain some decisions post-match - just look at the mess they've made of the handball law! The number of grey areas allow for both interpretations - yes, he's offside and his presence in an offside position is purely to interfere with Donnarumma's attempt to save, or yes, he's offside but he's not interfering! It's ridiculous, and the 'cognoscenti' in the studio start throwing in all kinds of irrelevant aspects that Donnarumma was never in a position to save it. The question solely centres around Robertson's nefarious activities in the goal area, and what he's done in an offside position should chalk off the goal.
 

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