The decision to sent De Ligt to get treatment wasn’t mind-boggling, it was literally following the clearly stated rules of the game.9 games in:
An absurd, overturned, red card against fernandes.
Mind boggling decision to send off de Ligt with seconds to play, for a wound that had already been treated, was untouched on sideline before he was allowed to return in the exact same condition he was sent off in.
Todays call was the worst penalty decision I have ever seen. Theres nothing to add. Michael Oliver is a compromised offical.
and lower level:
personally thought casemiro was fouled by diaz, and looking at what we got a penalty against for today, then yeah.
Against Brighton, Veltman literally sprawled out and swept the ball away with his arm and got no booking. Not a game changer but inexplicable.
Again, i thought the late palace handball was a penalty, but like the casemiro one, these judgement calls never seem to go our way or balance out.
As it stands, it’s an absolute lottery and the enemy of consistency, the thing they’re trying to achieve.
There needs to start being independent investigations or sackings for decisions where a VAR official invents something that never happened.
I think it's the only way it will stop. And it would stop, immediately, if there were actual consequences, because it's actually very easy to not do anything when there is absolutely no need to.
I can understand contentious decisions or ones where maybe fans or players don't agree with the interpretation, or even daft stuff where the rule or threshold for breaching it is made vague, but we constantly get decisions in games where none of these arguments apply.
Feel like I've been making this same post every 2 weeks for 3 years now. It won't stop happening until the officials are actually accountable for doing their jobs with integrity and a level of basic competence.
If people were allowed to feck up as badly and frequently in my profession and be protected every time, it'd be full of incompetent, corrupt oafs. This is what you have with the pgmol. It's supposed to be a job for "professional" officials. So maybe try holding them to professional standards
I don't think it's inconsistent at all. The most concerning part for me is how consistent it is. Multiple disgraceful calls against United now.
The most shocking part is the widespread condemnation of a decision that went against United. It just goes to show how egregious it was.
I completely agree. VAR was introduced to increase the frequency of making the correct decision.
For the referees and those in the VAR booth (in the Premier League), making the correct decision is nowhere near their number one priority.
In the greater scheme of things, nobody will care if the referee makes a genuine mistake. But defending the indefensible only adds to the sense that it wasn't a genuine mistake.
I think the issue with the penalty is the fact that it's got overturned by VAR, there is no way it's clear and obvious. Iv seen far more clear and obvious be ignored in recent years and we are meant to have a higher threshold now for VAR intervention.
It's another example of really how terrible VAR is, still very much at the whim of a ref making it up as they go along. Still dealing with the consequences of mistakes despite having VAR checking all the decisions.
VAR was meant to make things better, it has failed miserably it's arguably made things worse particuly around red cards and penalties. It's a complete lottery like it was before VAR but at least pre VAR you could forgive a ref for making a mistake now it really does just look like complete incompetence or cheating maybe a bit of both.
