Champions League Games 5/6 March

One other factor that should have been taken into consideration was that the shot was flying over the bar, it wasn't like the ball striking his arm was preventing a goal. Obviously you can make a case for it being handball but it certainly wasn't clear cut. Given the context at that stage of the game, and the fact United didn't really appeal for it, it was a very strange decision to go to VAR. Also, why did the ref need to consult the United bench?

So this round we've had Real and United getting a leg up from VAR and city and PSG get shafted, seems legit.

Anyway, daylight robbery from spurs, and now United, PL quality really is shining tnrough.
 
It’s amazing how the ref and panel waited till the 90th+ minute to prove their corruption. They just waited for a PSG player to block the shot with a hand before awarding the penalty in the dying seconds. Geniuses.
 
Bill said:
And didnt uefa seize their chance.
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This is the thing, if PSG are wining the game comfortably that penalty never gets given, if it’s at the other end it never gets given,
i was all for VAR but after our game and what we saw last night it just gives UEFA more power to ensure their agenda is rammed home, before VAR the Champions League was one bent stinking pile of shit for me, after recent events it stinks even worse, i for one wouldn’t shed a tear if we never win it and if we could get away with not even bothering with it I wouldn’t complain
 
Skip Donoghue said:
This is the thing, if PSG are wining the game comfortably that penalty never gets given, if it’s at the other end it never gets given,
i was all for VAR but after our game and what we saw last night it just gives UEFA more power to ensure their agenda is rammed home, before VAR the Champions League was one bent stinking pile of shit for me, after recent events it stinks even worse, i for one wouldn’t shed a tear if we never win it and if we could get away with not even bothering with it I wouldn’t complain
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I agree. With VAR we've gone out of the kettle and into the fire. A decision which would have been inexplicable before, is now justified, last season Otamendi's and Kimpembe's handballs would not have been given, and everyone would have been clear on why and been in agreement. Now we have the likes of Walton on TV saying actually it is hand ball, when before it wasn't. It's like they've invented a new rule. It's a farce.
 
Just keep shooting from anywhere and appeal every time it hits someone, eventually you'll get a penalty.
 
M18CTID said:
If it’s a new directive and it’s going to be applied consistently then I’ve no real issue with it, and let’s be honest we’d all be screaming for a pen if it was us.

However, Clattenburg has some neck saying what he did in that last paragraph as he was the one who awarded a penalty against Sterling vs Spurs 3 seasons ago for the exact same thing. In fact, I’m still not sure whether it even hit Sterling on his hand or arm or whether it was in the area while that one last night clearly did and was clearly in the 18 yard box.
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I’m going to say three things. Firstly I genuinely don’t think it would have occurred to me to be screaming for a pen if that had been us and I was at that match last night.
Secondly whilst it was a horrific decision v Sterling, he had one look at full speed and anyone can mistake, I suppose. Surely the whole point of VAR is to be able to clear up shit decisions like that, not to use replays to overturn a correct, innocuous call and create a bad decision from nowhere. If you’d asked me a couple of years ago I would have said VAR had to come in because there were too many contentious decisions deciding games, I never thought the ****s would use it to actively create contentious decisions from nowhere! This smacks of UEFA thinking of FFP to stop clubs going bankrupt and then rapidly turning it into a tool for something entirely different. Surely nobody thought the intention of VAR was going to be to actively cause confusion and controversy where there was none?
Thirdly, despite kind of defending clattenburg there over the sterling decision, he is definitely a twat.
 
based on the draw who would have thought that Spurs, Rags, Porto and Ajax would all be in the Qtr final.
 
Groke said:
One other factor that should have been taken into consideration was that the shot was flying over the bar, it wasn't like the ball striking his arm was preventing a goal. Obviously you can make a case for it being handball but it certainly wasn't clear cut. Given the context at that stage of the game, and the fact United didn't really appeal for it, it was a very strange decision to go to VAR. Also, why did the ref need to consult the United bench?

So this round we've had Real and United getting a leg up from VAR and city and PSG get shafted, seems legit.

Anyway, daylight robbery from spurs, and now United, PL quality really is shining tnrough.
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Flying over the bar ?? More like out of the stadium,jammy bastards
 
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