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I'm absolutely ecstatic. Absolutely fucking buzzing what a monumental win that was.

Have been suffering with depression lately, cannot tell you what that result meant to me. Thanks all on the Matchday thread today, great day - and its the only joy I had on a mid-50s birthday!
Glad the boys cheered you up today.
 
If you have got any sensitive pets then please usher them out of the room before you select play.

 
What a performance overall. Loved the setup but think it will be Semenyo and Erl starting in the week, bring Cherki in for Marmoush and the rest the same please.

Yet another ref that gives everything against us. It’s a contact sport but when we make a challenge it’s not. I am amazed the pen was given but it was definitely a pen so maybe they could not hide that. Love to see the “foul” that led to the free kick they scored from, watching it live it looked like he just through himself on the floor. If we had fair refs I think we would batter most teams every week, we always have to work harder for our fouls and be careful for fouls against
 
VAR got the correct decision.

The goal is chalked off because of the tug by Erling Haaland. Once that’s identified no goal has been scored, and play quite rightly goes back to the foul on Haaland, which has denied a clear goal-scoring opportunity.

For me, the frustration isn’t the decision, but the laws of the game. The punishment doesn’t fit the crime: a red card and a free kick outside the box when a goal was guaranteed? There's been examples of this before, think Luis Suárez and the handball on the line at the World Cup.

Football could learn something from rugby here. A penalty goal (awarding a goal without the need of a penalty) in situations where a goal is certain would better reflect the offence. However, with the current crop of officials on VAR, is that opening another can of worms, or fixing a long-standing flaw?
 

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