No, but Micah Richards and Gary Lineker said the ref should play on after a found just in case it isn't one and MotD had primacy over the laws for the common man.
I don't believe that he did actually break any law of the game. I was simply saying he was at fault for not letting things develop and then allow use of VAR. Similar to how linesmen allow a marginal offside to run its course if there is a chance of a goal. That's not a law as far as I know. I believe its an advisory thing to prevent this sort of mistake. It was clearly a goal scoring opportunity. If he had delayed , and then blown for a foul as he saw it after the goal then all options were still available. Blowing the whistle took the award of a goal off the table.
He knew what he was doing
Yes, that was the point I was trying to make. Cheers.
You must be the only blue who thinks the decision of Gillett is a mystery. To me and many blues there is no mystery. It is quite simply game management achieved through corruption then explained away by moving mirrors and gaslighting. Unless of course you were being sarcasic and cheeky;-)
They wasn't powerless to intervene on the sending off though. They should of told the ref the ball was clearly moving away from the goal.
It should help stop the narrative about PGMOL/PL being out to ‘get city’ (and Newcastle, for that matter) though, given the only way either of them could not qualify for the CL was Villa not losing……
Personally I believe they got that decision correct. It was ours in the cup final they got horribly wrong, whether that be by mistake or design.
I agree in principal but it would be a mare to manage.
The play is stopped by the ball crossing the goal line and entering the net the ref points to centre spot and whistles to confirm the goal
The rags?
Something Stuart Atwell will never be accused of.
Yes so do i. Just being sarcastic.
But we had seen several goals awarded after a lineseman has flagged, ref blown, ball goes in the net, they review that it wasn't offside and the goal given. Despite players stopping etc. We have allowed all common sense to leave us when making any decisions. Villas goal doesn't fall into the category and example you are providing of any type of chaos. The whistle being blown has no impact on the outcome. In a case like that then there should be a level of trust in the officials to say it wasn't a foul, blowing the whistle had no impact, goal given. The end. The right decision is made, they hide behind mini loop holes of the whistle had gone etc. It is another example of VAR just being pointless, that this week, our handball the week before couldn't be any more clear and obvious errors by the on field officials. Yet the decisions still stand. Fucking madness
Not trying to be argumentative but we have never seen any instance where a goal has been awarded when the ball goes in the net after the whistle has been blown, in any scenario. The ball is dead, as in the villa game.
