Protest?

[Scaring Europe to Death]

I didn't see any cheating and corruption this weekend. That's going a bit far in my opinion.

I do really dislike VAR though and even when it gets a decision right e.g.,Sheff Utd it still destroys a moment. Palace's disallowed goal was the correct decision. The Sterling disallowed goal was highly questionable because I don't think VAR can be precise enough to make such calls. WHat are the officials supposed to do in such a situation? I can see why they disallowed Sterling's goal, even though I think that it is ridiculous to do so.

VAR has to go because it damages the game and the experience for fans, but it's no more biased than the system we had before....it is after all used by the same people.

Yep.

Originally, I was 100% in favour of VAR, essentially because it would reverse the clear and obvious errors, such as the disallowed CL goal against Liverpool (at such a crucial time) when the linesman didn’t realise that the last touch had come from a red shirt, and had therefore played the City attacker onside

My faith in VAR evaporated from almost the very first time I witnessed it first-hand, following Aguero’s goal, and then the subsequent delay in Gelsenkirchen last season

That trip had cost me around £200-£300 yet there I was, standing in the stadium totally bewildered, and also (the real killer) finding out from friends watching TV at home that the referee was checking whether Laporte had committed a foul in the City half before heading the ball to a Schalke player (who had then back-passed to the keeper etc)

That was almost a year ago, and I was told that the mistakes with the lack of communication and length of delay would be eliminated.

Instead, they’ve got worse,

The only major difference is the ruling for marginal offsides that nobody had noticed in the first place. We are still getting inconsistencies, and fouls are still subjective opinion rather than factual evidence.

Everything is inconsistent, yet VAR's biggest selling point was the exact opposite.

 

[city saint]

just get the crowd singing pigmol is bent loud enough that its heard on the telly on a live game

 

[mosssideblue]

Too stupid to bother explaining why

Totally agree. Beggars belief what some people think

 

[BringBackSwales]

I like the tennis ball route myself. Even the rags would be on board with doing it with us at the Derby I’d imagine. The higher profile of the clubs that do it, the more it’ll be talked about.

bet your bottom dollar if we did it against Sheff Utd or Leicester the fans would be crucified on MOTD and Sky etc. But if it’s done on derby day with them joining in it’ll be sung to a different tune.

Sorry, did you just say we should join in with united fans on derby day? Fucking fucking hell

 

[BringBackSwales]

I don't believe there's corruption, I'm not ruling it out completely but I think what we're currently seeing is one side being given the benefit of the doubt a lot more often than others.

They really have become the new United.

Fair enough highlight and complain about decisions, protest VAR because it's ruining the atmosphere at games, curse our luck but crying corruption just makes us look like spoiled brats to most neutral observers and any sort of protest will make us a laughing stock.

united is always spelled with a small u

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

United is always spelled with a small u

Was brought up being taught it was a big C

 

[big gaz]

Honestly, the derby is a day for us battering them and sticking it up them. I don't want it to be anything other than hostile and horrible for them, no joining forces to protest about VAR. If we are seriously going to do something then save it for the Leicester game.

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[Thomas Hearns]

Honestly, the derby is a day for us battering them and sticking it up them. I don't want it to be anything other than hostile and horrible for them, no joining forces to protest about VAR. If we are seriously going to do something then save it for the Leicester game.

Disagree. Look at the bigger picture - the rags aren’t a threat, the dippers are. United although useless on the pitch are still uber famous off it and any protest involving them ramps up the publicity to the nth degree. Plus the concept of both sets of fans putting their mutual loathing to one side to join together in a protest would reinforce just how sickened ordinary fans are by the VAR shitestorm

 

[Gazza]

Totally agree. Beggars belief what some people think

Notice how people are just talking around you?

 

[Deleted member 77198]

With all the talk about how bent / corrupt etc the game has become and how the laws of the game are being manipulated to help certain teams / agents / syndicates etc how can we as a fanbase become the leaders of any protest. Seen on here talk about banners, tennis balls being thrown, staying on the concourse, not attending games etc but would they really work? We can't even get a decent singing section going (no disrespect to those who try) so how on earth can we get something like this off the ground? Look at how games are reported when we can all see the opposite has gone on. Look at how the media backed Gomez over a bit of booing yet were effectively fueling it when it was Raheem on the receiving end. Look at how the Liverpool hacking scandal has been brushed under the carpet or when the likes of Mark Halsey speak out it is chip paper within 24 hours as if it never happened. Who is really going to stick their heads above the parapet and call out the powers that be for the cheating and corruption that is going on in the game.

Us!

With tennis balls one week, the next week a boycott of the first five minutes of a game, and then one where we unveil banners and flags and sing anti-establishment songs.