If only that japanese octopus were still alive, we could ask its opinion and be done with it.
Arsenal-Mania goes into Meltdown
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) look forward to a new life under Ruben Amorim. What system will we be playing? What players will impress? and how will it all go? We also say goodbye to Ruud Van Nistelrooy and review United's 3-0 win at home against Leicester City.
A clear and obvious error is a case in which the referee believes something to have happened that did not. In this case he thought Odegaard played the ball. The VAR saw that to be untrue and told him to review the decision. If he had told the VAR that he just didn't think the contact was enough then the decision would not have been looked at.
Which has, and always will be, a really stupid point. Why would human mistakes make the game better, and wanting to eliminate said mistakes make it worse? It's nonsense
This is such an obvious point, I'm surprised so few people get it. How can getting to the right decision ruin the game? Accepting human error when you have the option of getting it right, makes mockery of the game.
Not that I agree with it but I think some people like the arguements down the pub. I prefer the right decision being made.
I would understand their pride if before they got beaten by us, they had beaten City, Chelsea or Liverpool in their opening games. They didn't. It's not their title to lose. They will win feck all.
It amazes me the amount of conflation people have between VAR and the referee himself… VAR isn’t the issue, it’s the person making the decisions that is the problem. We have a standard of officiating problem, not a VAR problem.
I meant that some people don't mind refs making mistakes for the talking points/post game ramblings. VAR gets in the way of that.
Yep. Arsenal's heroic winning run:
Palace: jammy as all feck
Leicester: in crisis
Bournemouth: Championship team
Fulham: Championship team
Villa: in crisis
Arsenal fans are actually complaining because a right decision was made.
My opinion is that you can't deny that it was a foul on Eriksen. A foul is still a foul regardless on how "soft" it was. That part is undebatable.
The only debatable part on this certain play is about when to use VAR.
The only debatable part on this certain play is about when to use VAR.
That’s no way to speak about Arsene Wenger
True, but even for that, VAR would have rightly intervened in the incident on Sunday. Odegaard fouls Eriksen who loses the ball and the very next pass is an assist for Martinelli. It doesn't matter if the foul happened 5 yards from goal or at the halfway line (some pundits are b*tching about the halfway line as if that is relevant).
There's definitely a debate to be had on what constitutes as phase of play, but it is not as if VAR had to go back 18 passes to unearth a foul on Sunday.
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I've seen instances when refs feck up calls and did not resort to VAR to validate their non-calls, and I often wondered how do they decide when or not to use VAR. Thankfully in our case, ref did use VAR to scrap the goal.
That's not what I was talking about. It's fine. I can't be arsed.
Using it when one team has comfortable possession, then the other team shoves and trips one player over to then play someone through and score is probably the most appropriate use you could ask for.
They wanted him out because they felt he couldn't take Arsenal greater than 4th place, while spending pennies compared to other clubs. Now they'll lauded Arteta as the best thing since sliced bread if they get 4th after spending 278m since summer 2021.
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