How backward and stupid. I'd say drop him for gross incompetence but they're all hopeless.
VAR, Refs and Linesmen | General Discussion
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The PL game continues to get faster and there's so much action and incidents that happen.
Why doesn't football or the PL ever consider having 2 on pitch refs who work in tandem. We see it in many sports. It's not a case of overruling one another but bring thorough
Why doesn't football or the PL ever consider having 2 on pitch refs who work in tandem. We see it in many sports. It's not a case of overruling one another but bring thorough
He has retired. Which is why he is telling this now.
Clattenburg had done the same.
He’s definitely going to release a controversial book.
It's the mindset because they can do it 100x over and not lose their job, and they can do it 1,000x over and no one ever reviews or investigates why it keeps happening or recommends any changes to how they do their job. It's always explained away as the job being difficult, and the idea of a lack of integrity or accountability being anything to do with it is laughed off, despite the obvious irony of that. In fact not only laughed off but you're heavily punished as a manager or player for even suggesting it.
If I was a PL manager and I suggested that "I wanted to help my mate" or "I wanted tottenham to self implode" were not unbiased or integrity maintaining methods for officials to base their decision making on, and that i didn't want said officials refereeing my team's games, due to them having no integrity and possibly being corrupt, I'd be bringing the game into disrepute. Yet if Michael Oliver decided that he also didn't want to cause his mate any grief during the game this weekend amd deliberately got decisions wrong, nothing would happen.
The fecking referee's just admitted they do feckers. Its just gaslighting at this point. Sort your shit out.
Bollocks. The "clear and obvious" BS is a cop out from intervening so as to prevent hurting on-field ref's feelings.
And if you believe that statement from PGMOL I have some magic beans to sell you. Actions in some games suggest otherwise
Mike Dean just coming out and exposing how crap the VAR system is so hilariously Mike Dean.
fixed
Dean - “ I didn’t intervene when I should have done”
PGMOL - “that never happens”
fecking laughable.
I've been advocating for this for like 20 years. It helped hockey and with the size of a football pitch it would greatly help on-field calls with a ref on either side of the pitch, one with play and one trailing play at all times.
This! This should be the minimum but I can guarantee they will not be doing any of this anytime soon.
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All we needed and hoped from var is consistency. That's the purpose of it to give fair refereeing consistently with evidence they have before them.
Never wanted to accuse on field referees because it's difficult job and they missed things in real time and completely understood.
But VAR should never let their personal feeling dominate them when they make decisions. They have evidence to do the right thing but failed to be truthful to their job is utter disgrace.
‘To say I didn’t send him over because he’s a mate is a farce’ he’s upset people are using his own quotes verbatim against him.The more he talks the worse he sounds.
He’s a fecking disgrace, and honestly every decision he’s made over his career should be under scrutiny.
he’s upset people are using his own quotes verbatim against him.The more he talks the worse he sounds.He’s a fecking disgrace, and honestly every decision he’s made over his career should be under scrutiny.
‘To say I didn’t send him over because he’s a mate is a farce’
He’s a fecking disgrace, and honestly every decision he’s made over his career should be under scrutiny.
What he’s actually saying is worse. He seems to think people are annoyed because they’re friends and he’s looking after a friend. People are annoyed because of exactly what he’s admitting here. He’s saying the quiet bit out loud, he thinks his job as a VAR official isn’t to ensure the match is officiated correctly, it’s to “protect” his colleague and he’s prepared to ignore the rule book to do just that.
fecking exactly what people have suspected and the concerns we have all raised.
‘To say I didn’t send him over because he’s a mate is a farce’
He’s a fecking disgrace, and honestly every decision he’s made over his career should be under scrutiny.
"I didn't deliberately give the wrong decision just to cover for him because he's a friend. I'd have done the same for any other referee too"
We'd be fuming if VAR didnt overturn that at the other hand.
Yeah we cannot complain about VAR at the moment. Was a clear dive. The state of refereeing in this country. Masking another poor performance.
Seems they added some time from the first half to the second, once we’re up 
Are you kidding? He knocked Rashford’s right leg onto his heel and it tripped him
Deary me. There was clear contact with his knee. If that was our defender making that challenge they'd be getting all kinds of stick.
We didn't play well, but the referee wasn't the reason we won.
Nowt wrong with that pen, it's not exactly a really bad tackle but it's a foul for sure.
Not VAR related, but why didnt Gibbs White get a second yellow for asking for a yellow? Why wasnt Aurier booked for the second time for a foul that was clearly a bookable offence?
And the keeper getting a yellow isnt a big deal, but the Onana yellow was stupid.
Why the feck are they so inconsistent?
And the keeper getting a yellow isnt a big deal, but the Onana yellow was stupid.
Why the feck are they so inconsistent?
The rule is stupid. I applaud a bit of common sense being applied.
First half Antony asked for a yellow, didn’t get one. 3/4 Forest players ran up to ask where is he yellow which. In turn, would have seen them booked as well.
Feck all that
The Rashford booking was a joke today, refree needs his eyes checked. How is it a foul if his own player pushed him over.
Pen is a pen, a soft one, but the defender knew he done fecked up. Maybe they could argue that the covering defender could get across and avoid the red, but it was dumb defending from Worrall.
Rashford was booked because he reacted badly and kicked the ball onto a ball boy.
I mustve missed that.. he deserves a yellow as well... Or no one does..
They either implement it all the time or dont.. Inconsistency is the problem..
The Aurier one was a clear booking ..
This is what happens when you show morons slow motion video of an incident that happened at speed. Kenny Cunnnigham and other pundit idiots struggle with it too.
It'll be interesting to see what the media says about media darlings Brighton's goalkeeper's two-handed punch in the head of an airborne opponent.
I don't think there was even a replay.
Not a single one
Some Forest loon on 606 saying that they've given the pen and red today to avoid a riot at Old Trafford. And by they he means the whole "football system" whoever that is.
Just heard this. Was a nutjob.Some Forest loon on 606 saying that they've given the pen and red today to avoid a riot at Old Trafford. And by they he means the whole "football system" whoever that is.
A drunken caller?Some Forest loon on 606 saying that they've given the pen and red today to avoid a riot at Old Trafford. And by they he means the whole "football system" whoever that is.
Calling it as a foul was a poor decision by the ref but I think he got booked for his reaction, kicked the ball away hitting the ball boy.
He's awful, Paul Merson sounds smart in comparison