Ref Watch

[ZanteWeatherman]

When you jump your arms move up. When you come back down, the arms move back down. There is no need for his left arm to independently move back upwards again
Why does jumping make one arm randomly flail upwards when you are on the way back down?

An apt forum name.

 

[KnaresboroughBlue]

Awful ref missing our pen and the foul on Akanji. VAR even worse for not telling him to have another look and also for the handball. Between them they managed to get every big decision wrong.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Grealish clearly moved his hand upwards onto the ball though...

Why would anyone in their right mind want to come on here after such a monumental day yesterday and wum?

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

The Casemiro tackle was unbelievable - and he wins the free kick! On first glance on the TV replay it looks like his foot has gone over the top of the ball and into Akanji's leg. However, there's a photo somewhere (here or on Twitter) from a different angle and taken from the side of the pitch, which shows Casemiro's foot to be nowhere near the ball and way to the side of it. He didn't go over the top of the ball and he knew exactly what he was doing, which was to take out Akanji. Even Jenas called it out on commentary. Thought it was a yellow at the time but now I've seen the other image it's pre-meditated, dangerous and a red for me.

Don't get me going on Fred's challenge on De Bruyne.....the clearest foul and a penalty from any angle. No debate.

Not clear and obvious. Right.

The ref bought Bunter's screams and roll. How the fuck Coonte in VAR shit out of recommending a red card for that is beyond belief....
Oh wait, we know the answer to that

 

[Stoned Rose]

If we think yesterday was bad I reckon it’ll have nothing on the officiating next Saturday.

There’s absolutely no way UEFA will want us winning their competition and they’ll have had every **** on the planet in their ears to fuck us over.

I reckon we’ll have be 3x as good as Inter to overcome it.

And we will.

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

That cabbage patch kid looking **** Casimero should have walked

 

[SebastianBlue]

He really didn't, he reffed the game very well. yeah he missed the foul on Akanji but so did everyone else including you I bet. It's one VAR needed to get involved with but didn't.

He gave United a freekick for Casemiro’s red card challenge on Akanji.

He waived away a clear penalty when Fred tripped Kev in the United box.

He did indeed give most 50/50s United’s way throughout the match.

And, ultimately, he gave the farcical penalty for handball on Grealish, when he could have easily gone to the screen, saw the replays, and said he didn’t believe it meets the threshold for handball leading to penalty.

Tierney was “balancing” the match throughout.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Paul Tyranny was an utter **** as was Coote the **** on VAR

 

[ancoats]

The fact that its a subjective decision, there was no clear and obvious error that the VAR had to over-rule. Complete incompetence or just cheating.

you just knew they were going to give them something, it's like what I now start calling it (CITY TAX)

 

[jimharri]

Par for the course yesterday. Exceedingly soft penalty given (though that was on VAR), nailed on penalty on KDB not given, Casemiro red card not given (utd actually got the free kick!) Definitely playing against 12 men yesterday.