Sancho hooked off again. Guy offers nothing.
FA Cup 24/25 | 4th round: 7th-11th February
- Thread starter IRN-BRUno
- Start date
Pedro pulled down in the area - how is that not a pen?
It’s hard to believe Sancho starts as much as he does for Chelsea considering how much they’ve spent
Full time. Brighton win 2-1.
Brighton with a performance/win they normally reserve for Man United.
Sqwuak sqwuak Chelsea
Palmer running up and kneeing the Brighton player, right in front of the ref...Chelsea get a throw 
Pole Calmer hasn’t been so good the past few games.
Dribbling the ball up to the corner flag and keeping it there in a delibrate attempt to waste time shouldnt be allowed, it should be treated the same way as any other time wasting offence
If you have possession of the ball you can do what you want. It's a slippery slope from there to penalising teams for passing it around at the back. It'd basically be unenforceable.
This is incorrect. Any touch on the arm for the player who scored the goal means the goal is automatically disallowed and there is no subjective evaluation. If a player handballs in the buildup and gains a significant advantage that's subjective and can be evaluated by VAR.
Are you sure that's not what I said?
Chelsea got a rare tough cup draw and immediately go out.
It isn't because you were implying that the goal wouldn't be chalked off by VAR when it very obviously would have because it's a beyond blatant handball.
The standard isn't "accidental handball", it's up to interpretation. Granted that I'm relying on the VAR to correctly interpret the equivalent of 2+2=4 which might be beyond them but your argument that the outcome definitively wouldn't be different in the PL is just silly.
My comment on the incident itself is as follows so I've no idea what you're on about when you say I'm arguing it definitely wouldn't have been disallowed by VAR.
I was asked had the rule changed and I explained it in my own words. Handball is an offence if it's deemed to be caused by a deliberate action (making their body unnaturally bigger etc falls under that), obviously they also take into account proximity etc. I shorthanded that to accidental in my explanation.
Are you confusing me with someone else?
Besides all of that how would my opinion on one incident lead to me being wrong about the rule, which is what you pulled me up on?
Chelsea with 4 Fa Cups won between 2007 and 2012, just one since (unfortunately against United in 2018).
Mate I can only say that reading comprehension is difficult. I whole-heartedly and unreservedly apologise for misunderstanding and misrepresenting what you'd posted.
The above quoted post was the first I saw; I hope you'll pardon me for jumping the gun as I completely overlooked the earlier context.
No bother at all mate.
Most of the times I've seen that Brighton keeper play he's made a mistake either leading to a goal or very nearly so.
We were crap yesterday. Sad to say but once again most of my motivation this season has gone from not really caring about it though to only caring about how we do in league games to stay up.
We were crap yesterday. Sad to say but once again most of my motivation this season has gone from not really caring about it though to only caring about how we do in league games to stay up.
I think we are guaranteed a pl draw v Brighton / Bournemouth / Crystal palace and we know what’ll happen.
Hoping for a lower league team or city / villa away. We need to avoid Liverpool for a while longer until we get some sort of mojo back . I’m sick of rubbish performances at OT.
Again?
Anyone surprised by that?
Zero surprises in this round apart from maybe Burnley / Saints but it wasn’t a shock or anything .
Looks like only 4 non PL teams will be in the next round and 3 of those were playing a team in the same league or below.
Safe to say Liverpool / City will get 2 of those 4 teams
Looks like only 4 non PL teams will be in the next round and 3 of those were playing a team in the same league or below.
Safe to say Liverpool / City will get 2 of those 4 teams
You have a cup final next week. Beat them and you’ll feel better for the season
Don't think we will win but have a decent chance of getting a draw out of the game. We just need to make sure we have a big Feb-March as our end of season run is hard.
This weekends FA Cup has shown the reason VAR is needed.
The angle they showed was crap, but seemed as though the Wolves player in the foreground (Hwang?) might easily have been keeping the Blackburn scorer onside.
Great arguments for VAR in the Blackburn - Wolves game. Shocking decisions.
Feel sorry for Blackburn, they've had a goal disallowed and the potential penalty is one that if VAR was in use typically goes with whatever the referee gives regardless.
Now they are two down, shame. They'd been interesting on the counter especially down their left.
Now they are two down, shame. They'd been interesting on the counter especially down their left.
When’s the draw for this? Tonight or tomorrow?
Too many Gomes’ in this Wolves team
Tomorrow.
Thing with VAR is that the incompetent referees who are missing these incidents without VAR are the ones operating VAR.
Is the Wolves v Blackburn game not on UK Tv?
Was on BBC Red Button
Tomorrow at 7pm
It's not going to happen of course, but there's really nothing on that Liverpool bench to save them if this second string lineup doesn't get the job done.
They're taking a little bit of a liberty leaving all of Salah, Van Dijk, Arnold, Szoboszlai, Macallister, Gravenberch, Konate at home. Injury to Gomez now as well.
They're taking a little bit of a liberty leaving all of Salah, Van Dijk, Arnold, Szoboszlai, Macallister, Gravenberch, Konate at home. Injury to Gomez now as well.
What do ITV see in don't Matterface and Dixon
Seem like every game this weekend in the cup has been full of injuries and stoppages.