Im weirdly annoyed by this. They know the rules, it literally happened 2 hours before this. If you dont play for the ball then its a red. Hell its red most of the time pre VAR so it has to be group amnesia to say its a confusing red card
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Cavani knows to stay behind the defender because he knows the ball will fall behind him.
Replay shows he barely jogged and just went in a straight line for an easy header
They’re completely obsessed with this huge injustice to Southampton when the game was 6-0. They’ve showed the replay of the penalty foul more times than all the goals combined. They’ve got pitch side audio, referencing tweets from ex-professionals. I know it was a soft decision but feck me, this is ridiculous. They didn’t spent this long talking about how we got screwed against Sheffield United, did they?
Humphrey always comes across as a bit of a self styled “voice of the people”, can only guess he considers himself that based on supporting a “proper” club (ie not one of the big boys)
Peter Walton backing his homeboy.
How much time are they going to bore on about this one incident in game we won 9-0?!?!
A superb performance after an idiotic red card is the story tonight.
Not this.
A superb performance after an idiotic red card is the story tonight.
Not this.
This is an abomination of punditry.
Post match on BT is strange tonight. We were 6-0 up at the time of the penalty and second red card yet you would think from reaction on the BT broadcast and social media that is has changed the game. I assume it’s the usual anti United mob out in force again plus it gets plenty of click bait.
Can’t believe this
United win 9-0. BT concentrate on the possibility of a penalty being dubious.
ABU in force
ABU in force
Why are they obsessing over VAR, they're creating the narrative and making it all about this shite.
Robbie was in hype mode before the replay of Cavanis goal came on.
He didnt do anything that Robbie said as Robbie was still going on about it
He's terrible, he just agrees with the referee's decision 99% of the time regardless of whether it's right or not. VAR is terrible but I think Southampton and the pundits moaning about the penalty (I agree with them in fairness) ignores the fact it was 6-0 with 3 minutes left, the horse had already bolted miles away by that stage.
Normally after a big win I would watch the entire broadcast until the end, but it felt like someone had died with real sadness about the penalty at 4-0 
Why don’t they also cover the Cavani penalty shout, which was just as contentious?
Didn't see this much dedication towards VAR, when Mike Dean was the var referee in Southampton's last game
That's why it was funny how he had to actually put his balls on the line with the non given pen - and call it before the VAR had called it for once
"Deffo a pen"
Not a pen!
9-0 and they have just talked non stop about the pen and red card.
No mention of the absolute mess in the first half when we should have had a pen and the ref didn't play advantage for the Greenwood goal.
cnuts!
No mention of the absolute mess in the first half when we should have had a pen and the ref didn't play advantage for the Greenwood goal.
cnuts!
What I don’t get is this has ALWAYS been a red card. Forever and ever.
They’ve now changed the rule to give a defender a chance at actually tackling for the ball - instead they cry like it would never have been a red card before VAR was involved? It’s insane.
They seem desperate to blame VAR at every opportunity when it would have never been different.
Glenn hoddle seems really confused bless him, even Rio doesn’t seem to understand what’s actually going on
They’ve now changed the rule to give a defender a chance at actually tackling for the ball - instead they cry like it would never have been a red card before VAR was involved? It’s insane.
They seem desperate to blame VAR at every opportunity when it would have never been different.
Glenn hoddle seems really confused bless him, even Rio doesn’t seem to understand what’s actually going on
He’s a Liverpool fan disguised as a Norwich fan. Quite a common thing.
Laughable post match coverage.
Can’t abide Jake Humphrey covering a United game - never misses an opportunity to make a sly remark. No wonder he’s keen to keep the conversation on VAR.
He fancies himself as a pundit, not a presenter.
He fancies himself as a pundit, not a presenter.
Derr....because that was one we didn't get.
Has to be something we've got away with, even at 6-0 up!
Savage is one of the most useless ABU pundits there is.
Agreed. I turned over to Optus Sport about 15 minutes in because Savage was spoiling the game for me, then turned back to BT for post-match analysis only to see a forensic discussion about a penalty call at 6-0. Really started to ruin my high from the game so I switched off again
Because it's really, really fecking shit and killing football as a spectacle and they rightly think that's a huge talking point.
Oh and Jake Humphries is a twat too.
They never spend any time on controversial decisions that go against us.
It is, but they could spend a bit longer talking about some of the goals. We know VAR is shit, but you don't get many of these sort of results.
Just switched them off. If it was Liverpool/City who got the decisions you can bet they'd be gushing about the goals and not going on and on about those cards. I didn't agree with the last red card but my goodness they act like that was the whole game.
Where was the 30 mins dedicated to de Gea being fouled against Sheffield and how much of an injustice that was? Oh wait
Thank you!
Exactly
Nothing to do with ABU. He was just as incredulous about the Cavani penalty.
Thank you too!
We will be waiting forever for that discussion...
Like the referees, they are also as inconsistent and biased.
Everyone is right about the really odd post match coverage, when it was clearly a penalty.
Having said that, I found the match commentary hilarious, the banter and stats about the last time we scored this many goals had me cracking up.
Having said that, I found the match commentary hilarious, the banter and stats about the last time we scored this many goals had me cracking up.
Side to side.
You have a nine goal game and you decide to talk about decisions that are moot at that point in the game, with similar scenarios already discussed to death in a dozen other games
Exactly my sentiments.
Pretty sure Savage isn't ABU. Sure his son is signed for us