Ref Watch

[dadnlad]

Coote the replacement, who could not see the most obvious penalty for Jack being booted on the back of his leg v Wolves, the most blatant penalty you will see yet the ref, Var and the Var assistant all missing it.
No apology to us of course and no officials dropped from the next round of games, same as the outrageous incorrect decisions v Rags, Spurs home etc

come on jack got one back against villa where he made most of being clipped

 

[dadnlad]

Keith Hackett on BBC News sports roundup absolutely laid into Lee Mason tonight. Ended by saying his position as a VAR referee should be reviewed.

i guess that round now he cant get near screen to see them

 

[Vic]

I took it as 'Football' is the rule book

Nah, it's a new thing for that sort of incident: do "what football expects" (except for Rashford's "not offside" decision of course).

 

[blue is best]

https://www.skysports.com/amp/footb...-which-denied-brighton-goal-at-crystal-palace

Blind Pugh and I see no penalty on var ffs!

 

[Chi-town blues]

Coote the replacement, who could not see the most obvious penalty for Jack being booted on the back of his leg v Wolves, the most blatant penalty you will see yet the ref, Var and the Var assistant all missing it.
No apology to us of course and no officials dropped from the next round of games, same as the outrageous incorrect decisions v Rags, Spurs home etc

Post var there’s no room for apology. Margin of error shouldn’t be in our conversation .

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

They need to explain those kind of calls otherwise people think its bent.

How do you explain those decisions in any other way than 'bent'?

Robertson tells the referee to 'fuck off' twice, and ... nothing.

And for an Everton player to get carded for kicking the ball away while Robertson gets away with it is inexplicable.

After DIaz was booked for 'aggressively running' towards the referee on Sunday I thought there might be a clamp-down on dissent, but that must only count against certain teams.

 

[Dirty Harry]

So we have Marriner on VAR now ?

 

[halfcenturyup]

Except Dermot he didn’t blow straight away. He waited for the ball to hit the back of the net. Almost as if he had no idea so thought let’s see what happens and if City score VAR will help me out as it checks all goals. Also interesting to note to Martinez waits to see where the ball goes then falls down holding his head faking a head injury

To be fair, when an attacker looks at where the keeper is, then jumps in the general direction of the ball and collides with the keeper, it will be a foul on the keeper 100 times out of 100. Unless it is Ederson of course, but that is a different issue.

But yes, Martinez is a twat, I think we all know that. He was being a twat here without it making any difference though, imo.

Think the ref and VAR got everything right on this one, tbf.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

They need to explain those kind of calls otherwise people think its bent.

I’m not sure if people just ‘think’ it now, it’s becoming more of a ‘know’.

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

Looked like Haaland made contact with his knee on the follow through. Not a foul though.

Not saying you’re wrong but the keeper definitely made contact with Haaland’s neck/jaw, it was reddened for the next 10 mins. I thought the keeper just beat him to the ball.