Jesus fecking Christ. Brighton fecked over by VAR again in the same match.
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And again, clear pen
That stamp on Mitoma’s foot by Hojberg has to be up there with one of the worst VAR calls this season. Most blatant penalty you’ll see. How can you get it so badly wrong?!
Brighton have been robbed three times now... Two penalties and the Mitoma goal 
The crazy thing is, there’s been worse VAR calls in this same game.
Attwell always been a complete joke but whoever is on VAR should be sacked
The others were bad but this one is shocking. No competent referee can ever watch that and decide it’s not a penalty.
PL referees are truly bent. They decide beforehand who's their gonna do
VAR at Spurs-Brighton should get fired
I expect Casemiro to get banned for some of the stamps today including the one from Garner against us
Unfortunately I don't think it's as much as an exciting referee conspiracy as you think. It's just down to them being incompetent at their jobs.
Nah, they're just incompetent. That Brighton (no) penalty call is a shocker. It's as blatant as they come and they've still missed it.
Yeah there’s bound to be some corruption with how far sports betting has proliferated into every market these days. I truly can’t believe any qualified referee can be this bad without some incentive.
I don't think you can brush under the carpet the possibility of them being corrupt
Brighton should be preparing the formal complaints as we speak. Absolutely awful, awful refereeing. A hatchet job if I have ever seen one.
How have Brighton not got a penalty? I don’t understand the rules.
This has to stop. The referees in this league are an absolute joke. We all just put up with it, there will be a few weeks without incident and then they will be back at it. Brighton have been shafted this game, to the extent that the most likely explanation is corruption.
No club in the country has anything positive to say about officials. They're just so bad that something as wild as corruption starts to seem reasonable.
There have been referees found in guilty of corruption in other places, there is the Barca scandal going at the moment.
I don't think one can safely say that the PL are 1000% not corrupt. It's a possibility, albeit a small one.
Atwell is doing a fine job to give this theory some semblance of truth
Like, for example, Spain?
If it's going to be a shit as it has been, then get rid of it!
Which one?
That was one of the worst refereeing performances I have seen in a long time. Half the Spurs teams should have been on yellows. If Casemiro had put in the tackle that Perisic did the whole world would have been losing their shit at it only being a yellow. Scissor tackle and follows through into the players shin, studs up.
Brighton have been robbed today.
Brighton have been robbed today.
This is the refs doing their best to keep top 4 in play till the last few weeks.
They are all about narratives and have admitted so in the past.
They are all about narratives and have admitted so in the past.
Spurs always seemingly get decisions.. Two pens given against Newcastle today, second one looked pretty soft.
There's always dodgy stuff going on in Italy and Spain. I kind of expect a good scandal every few years. If it's happening in this country, feck knows who's benefiting because everyone is up in arms about how bad they are. It's not out of the question but I'd rank it less feasible than them just being fecking useless.
There was a 2nd?! I switched off surely after the Mitoma one, which was ludicrously poor.
The integrity of the match officials must be questioned because these decisions are shocking. No other way to describe it. As the most competitive league, the officials are not doing their part in making it a match between 2 teams.
There was another incident late on, it wasn't inside the box but as clear as a foul as it could get, would have given Brighton a dangerous FK.
The league. Stir shit up and create narratives. In this case, keep the battle for top 4. It sounds crazy, but I'm struggling to find reasonable explanation. Today was just so blatant.
Despite witnessing bad refereeing performances, as we all have, I have never once doubted the integrity of match officials. They may have be been wrong, but they have been honest.
Today was something different.
I strongly suspect something was very, very dishonest about what just happened.
Today was something different.
I strongly suspect something was very, very dishonest about what just happened.
There's no conspiracy... It's just terrible refs, made more terrible by really terrible VAR implementation
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Refs in football has to have consequences re their decisions within games. I mean if in real time there could be excuses that its hard to see the fouls in real time. But with VAR and they still get this wrong, questions and action needs to be taken by all the clubs to make sure the standard is up there.
That tinfoil hat of yours is bordering on RAWK levels. Pretty much every team in the league has been fecked over by an appallingly bad VAR decision. The fact that it happens so frequently is down to the poor standards of refereeing.
Yeah Lenglet holding Dunk in the area with both hands and stopping him from running.
I second the poster above. It would be a travesty of the officials are allowed to ruin another game next week.
Mon any industry, you’d be suspended for performing this badly.
Mon any industry, you’d be suspended for performing this badly.
I think refereeing has become worse since the introduction of VAR. I think there is a lot of confusion around it. Referees seem to be relying on it, but it is not reliable.
They say that they want to keep the decisions in the hand of the ref, but they don't do that at all. If the VAR doesn't refer the ref, he doesn't ever get to see it again; this makes it the decision of the VAR instead.
It has also led to rules becoming over-complicated; there seem to be far more changes than there used to be. The rules don't even make sense anymore.
I just don't think it works. Bring in automated offsides, keep goal line technology and just scrap the rest of VAR.
They say that they want to keep the decisions in the hand of the ref, but they don't do that at all. If the VAR doesn't refer the ref, he doesn't ever get to see it again; this makes it the decision of the VAR instead.
It has also led to rules becoming over-complicated; there seem to be far more changes than there used to be. The rules don't even make sense anymore.
I just don't think it works. Bring in automated offsides, keep goal line technology and just scrap the rest of VAR.
My conspiracy theory is they are deliberately sabotaging VAR to get it canceled.