Ref Watch

[Bluearmy]

The only way Dean admits this, is if a collective decision was made from the entire organisation not to undermine one another when making a decision, which is basically railing against the introduction of VAR, and been in place since it’s inception, or as we all suspect, VAR has been used to manipulate the outcome of games. Dean is quite smart because he has cleansed his sins and fired a warning shot at the same time, he knows there are much bigger incidents in play here, such as the Rashford offside, the big question is what else does he know ?

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Been saying for a while, the refs never wanted it and were actively tyring to discredit VAR from the get go. Pre VAR certain teams in red got decision after decision without recourse. VAR would
potentially ruin this for the cartel clubs. They werent going to take this lying down

Eventually there was so much of a shit storm, they had no option but to relent and VAR arrived. However you only have to look at other sports who have no/few issue with VAR styled systems, to know its been a concerted effort by the officials to get rid of it. This has been plainly obvious for years to many but at least its finally confirmed for all to see with Dean’s interview. As you say its going to be interesting to dig into other incidents as this is the tip of the iceberg for sure…

VAR is our only chance of levelling the playing field. No wonder the refs wanted nothing to do with it. Its a journey and we are not at the end of it by any chance. Stage 1 was getting VAR, stage 2 was letting it highlight to all how bent the officals are and i think we’re virtually there now (even the most placid of people now realise theres something dirty going on). Stage 3 will be to root out the cancer and expunge it from the game!!

 

[Bluearmy]

Soccer Saturday now

Whats being said??

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Whats being said??

Alty isn’t his mate he’s a colleague, for some reason this is his biggest gripe, maybe to do with online grief? it was his own fault, no reflection on Pigmol, being on VAR gave him anxiety, basically he’s tried shutting down any other thought process and shouldered the blame himself, strange that soccer Saturday addressed this first up but someone has to get ahead of the narrative & who better than Sly taking one for the team when tv rights are up for renewal

 

[Bluearmy]

Well he’s lying about the liverpool red card. Just said once he watched it back once its not a red. I literally watched the show last week and Dean was adamant it was a red, repeatedly

Now saying Gordon wasn't a red. Totally ignoring the laws of the game. This cancer needs to be removed from the game!

 

[dadnlad]

Soccer Saturday now

all choreographed all mates nobody called him out as chating

all swept under carpet now carry on

 

[1961_vintage]

Just further evidence that the role of officials is to support at all costs the achievement of the commercial objectives of the premier league. Everything else is just noise.

 

[1961_vintage]

I appreciate that the job of the refs is to ensure that the cash cows keep the money rolling in, but just watching last season's Season Review and our game vs the rags. If you ever needed an example of the extent to which Michael Oliver despises this club, take a look at his face when he has to confirm that our 2nd goal has crossed the line. Pure hatred and it is clearly personal. Should never be allowed anywhere near our games.

 

[burning blue soul]

We need to thank the bent officiating, not lambast it.
Do you realise how good we have had to become to overcome the dead weight of biased officials, trying to level the playing field, so the epl can claim to be the most competitive in the world?
They created the monster they were trying to eradicate. Lolz!

 

[1961_vintage]

They created the monster they were trying to eradicate. Lolz!

Exactly right. The combined impact of clear and obvious fucking cheating together with our achievements being continually undermined by a bought-and-paid for sneering client media has one effect and one effect only. It absolutely galvanises this Club at every level, on and off the pitch.

The time to worry will be when the sycophants and lickspittles start blowing smoke up our collective arses because that's when the arrogance and delusion seeps in and that's when you end up like the rags and liverpool.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

We also need to thank Dean, not lambast him.

What he did to highlight this issue needed to be done.

He's a symptom not the cause.

I'm assuming in future PGMOL will slap nda orders on VAR refs so we can't find out what a shower of shite it all is.