UEFA Champions League Gameweek 5 | November 28th/29th

[SWP's back]

UEFA has stood down the VAR who made the decision to guide the referee to give PSG their penalty last night.

Tomasz Kwiatkowskiwas supposed to be VAR for the Real Sociedad v RB Salzburg Champions League game this evening.

However, he has now been replaced.

Although UEFA are yet to make a public statement over the decision to award PSG a penalty deep into stoppage time against Newcastle last night, it is the clearest indication yet the think the ruling was incorrect

Good and absolutely right. It was a terrible decision and the ref has no excuse as the VAR only asked him to view it. He saw the deflection and still gave it, shit ****.

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Not just the PL where subtle interference influences the game in plain sight....

Newcastle were truly robbed. But we know that feeling so well in both CL and PL. I give you exhibit A, City V Liverpool...

Psg imo a 'favoured' club.

 

[SWP's back]

Newcastle didn't get shafted that is the handball rule in Europe! Howe had it right not moaning! All media moaning about it and var especially is so so boring VAR is going nowhere so media should shut up about it being scrapped! Better of going on about sacking the people who are on var

*cough*

 

[bluemoon32]

I still remember a couple of Newcastle fans getting right in my face about 'dirty oil money' before they errrrrr got their own.
I hope the pair of cunts really enjoyed last night, fuck em

 

[SWP's back]

Not just the PL where subtle interference influences the game in plain sight....

Newcastle were truly robbed. But we know that feeling so well in both CL and PL. I give you exhibit A, City V Liverpool...

Psg imo a 'favoured' club.

If it was anything other than just a bad decision then they’d have given one of the more clear cut penalties that weren’t given in the 95 minutes before it.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

UEFA has stood down the VAR who made the decision to guide the referee to give PSG their penalty last night.

Tomasz Kwiatkowskiwas supposed to be VAR for the Real Sociedad v RB Salzburg Champions League game this evening.

However, he has now been replaced.

Although UEFA are yet to make a public statement over the decision to award PSG a penalty deep into stoppage time against Newcastle last night, it is the clearest indication yet the think the ruling was incorrect

Even UEFA know it’s a farcical decision but we still have people somehow defending it. If people think that is handball then we might as well all pack up and go home because we’ll never agree on anything.

Handballs have to be intentional and that has always been the law - fuck the guidelines. You can do that by moving your arm towards ball or making your body bigger to achieve a block.

If we’re going to sit here and argue that there is any universe where Livramento was doing either of those things to block a ball that deflected off his own body from 1 ft away then what’s the point in pretending we’re looking for deliberate handball? Let’s just have it be automatic handball every time it touches your arm. That’s what people are advocating for and that’s how UEFA have been reffing it this past few years. So let’s just fucking do that then? At least it’d be consistent (it’d be shit though).

 

[eyalluvitt]

Not just the PL where subtle interference influences the game in plain sight....

Newcastle were truly robbed. But we know that feeling so well in both CL and PL. I give you exhibit A, City V Liverpool...

Psg imo a 'favoured' club.

The 2012 league cup semi at Anfield ?

The worst decision in isssstrrreee, still not over that

 

[Metalartin]

I agree, it was so bad, it would be one of those calls that had City fans talking about corruption.

Selfishly perhaps though, I can't but help notice Newcastle seem to be getting a much easier rider than City got with the football media.

The amount of times we had to take robbery after robbery and listen to them downplay it, time after time. Listening to some of the reactions to last night's decision at PSG, I was getting flashbacks of Savage and Carragher saying: "You get doze doe don't you doe... Yeah... You do get doze." and "The goal was coming anyway. They've been second best". They'd sound more excited after the match than downbeat too.

No disrespect to Newcastle but you'd think they were European royalty in comparison to City by the sounds of it. They'd only had 2 seasons in the CL(and spent a pretty penny to get there) and have never reached the knockout stages once. Those only came after they diluted the format to include more teams.

They were the first team to get England's extra place after the first CL expansion(55teams, England had 2 places, 1 automatic) in the 1997-98 season and the first team to get England's 4th place in the 2002/03 season when the co-efficient became high enough, after the 1999-2000 CL expansion(72 teams, England started with 3 possible places, 2 automatic). Chelsea were the first to get the 3rd place position. By contrast, City only had one season in the old format of the European Cup but had to win a league to get it.

I don't think any other club will get the level of bullshit City fans have had to put up with over the years, no matter who buys them or how much they spend. After all, Chelsea spent way more than City did adjusted for inflation and Saudi directly own Newcastle and they are a much worse connection to have than the UAE. I think it has a lot to do with being a direct local rival to United personally(sharing the name Manchester). Plus we were directly linked to their decline, when they were the dominant force in many ways, I'd say.

So in closing, fuck the rags, fuck sly, TNT and the BBC too. Oh and hard luck Newcastle, I feel your pain.

 

[jimharri]

The 2012 league cup semi at Anfield ?
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The worst decision in isssstrrreee, still not over that

1996, Old Trafford (aka "the theatre of a leaking roof") says hello. Or Maine Road 1981.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Surely they need to change the rules on handball to that of the PL

The way VAR is operated in the premier league I don’t think they know the fucking rules either. There’s no consistency on any decision let alone the handball law