Peter Walton..

[crazyg]

I’ve been a big critic of Walton but he’s the only one sticking up for us here on BT.

Only after he was put right on the LotG by a voice in his ear after his first pronouncement. He was as clueless as the other muppets until he recanted.

 

[fulabeer]

Never seen such a massive u-turn by somebody on TV.
First he says offside and VAR has missed it.
Next minute saying correct decision as if he had been saying that all along.
I have a mate like that. He can turn sides in the same sentence when we argue!

So instead of this being a great bit of PR for VAR. By showing how no matter how obscure the rule, they got it right.
It is now a "loophole" to help us!

 

[deano ou812]

Would we have had this much halabaloo if it was the red scousers or rags who had scored that goal in fact any other team ..

 

[Ribchester]

Would we have had this much halabaloo if it was the red scousers or rags who had scored that goal in fact any other team ..

Or worse still it had happened against us, old stones would have been hung out to dry if he’d committed this “schoolboy error”

 

[eastmanc]

Was all over Skysports. Morally wrong & unpalatable too if memory serves

He is a knob head.

 

[Vienna_70]

Would we have had this much halabaloo if it was the red scousers or rags who had scored that goal in fact any other team ..

I think you know the answer to your own question.

 

[Gray]

If Villa had done the morally correct thing and kicked the ball into their own goal after the Blades were cheated out of a goal because the goal line technology failed, they would be playing in the Championship now. The fuss over our correctly awarded goal is pathetic.

 

[solley attwell]

Something that will never happen, but would be a fantastic watch, would be to have some of these refs interviewed by a panel of football experts and made to justify some of their decisions. A huge digital tv in front of them playing endless loops of some of their most bizarre judgments, and being told to explain each one.
Just watching the body language alone would be sufficient to tell you all you need to know.

That's a good idea. I would even go a step further. You would think sky would have a library of controversial incidents over the years that when one happens on a particular matchday and a manager is fuming because of an offside goal that is given against his side that sky could pull out a similar incident from their archives and show the manager when interviewed how he benifitted from from an identical decision . Would have loved that line of interview on baconface and wenger

 

[Dirty Harry]

If I was Smith I would keep my big fat month shut as he's basically digging himself into an even bigger hole by confirming he doesn't know a basic law of a sport he is paid very well to manage in professionally.
If I was his employer, I would be asking him some serious questions as to why he didn't know the rules.

John Moss clearly knew the rules as did the linesman and the VAR officials and City players.

Numerous posters on here including myself knew this rule too and we don't make a lucrative living from the sport.

Walton, Camelgob, Humphreys and co basically showed the whole country what a bunch of biased, clueless no nothing wankers they really are with their inane ramblings and personally I found it hilarious.

The whole thing reminds me of dealing with a clueless bullshitteer at work who has fuucked up and instead of coming clean has tried to cover up their mistake and dug himself into a hole so big that they cannot get out of it.

Trouble is mate, the majority of their audience are biased, clueless know nothing wankers so they probably don’t even realise.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The Northampton accent is a strange one.