Today’s Football 2020/21 Season

[Ring master]

That make's no sense at all in the Brighton game - then retaking the free kick afterwards, bizarre

 

[Alan Whittle]

Right decision in the end though lidslol

 

[MrGrumpy]

Goal, no goal, goal, no goal

weird

 

[tsubaki]

Right decision in the end though lidslol

after Monday and now this they look favourites to go down

 

[Alan Whittle]

Looking forward to Dermot Gallagher’s weekly ref exoneration on Sky on Monday morning.

 

[Alan Whittle]

after Monday and now this they look favourites to go down

One can but hope .

 

[Obes]

Brighton find new ways to not score lol

But seriously, I’d love it if that spelled the end for Lee Mason. Absolute joke shop of a referee.

 

[tsubaki]

the only thing that compares to that I’ve seen is the Hutchison arse-goal that Poll robbed us of

 

[MrGrumpy]

If Brighton go down it’s VAr fault. That was a goal, then u have the Man U pen after the final whistle(was thi season right?)

 

[sdk]

I still have no idea what the thought process is for that. It makes absolutely no sense. If they want EVERYTHING to go through Peacock then I'm going back to pirating because their online service is routinely more than 2 minutes behind. How? How are they THAT far behind EVERY single match??

I was honestly (and happily) surprised they didn't limit the derby to Peacock subscribers, given how much traffic they've pushed that way. I wasn't in a position to pay for it when they rolled out Peacock and what I've heard about the service since then is hardly inspiring.

Time lags from the different providers make following the match here just seem like a long, frustrating train of spoilers.

 

[JMT]

Premier League refs have somehow gotten 10x worse with VAR involved, It's madness.

 

[Ring master]

All that messing around with VAR there, is for me another reason why we should hear what VAR say as commentators can listen in, so we should be able to

 

[Seamus Colemole]

I will generally stick up for refs, it's a very hard job and the criticism they receive is stupidly over the top and most of the time flat out wrong.

But yeah, Mason once again shows that he is a really bad ref, how the hell he has had such a long career as a top flight ref i really don't know, that wa ssunday league level stuff.

God knows what he was doing. There is no need in law for a ref to actually blow the whistle before a free kick can be taken, it's taken when he deems it taken. However, when it comes to "ceremonial" free kicks like this around the area where a wall is lined up and a shot likely to be taken refs will pretty much always tell the players "on the whistle".

Which was what he done, he blew and Dunk took it. God knows why he then blew again as the ball went in, i can only assume it's because he suddenly realised Johnston was still on the post lining the wall up, panicked and blew to avoid WBA complaints. But again there is no obligation in law to let a keeper finish lining his wall up before allowing the kick to be taken , but it's more of an unwritten law to give them enough time to do so, only letting the kick to be taken if they are taking too long.

Be good to see the whole thing from the time he awarded the free kick to see exactly what happened.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I was honestly (and happily) surprised they didn't limit the derby to Peacock subscribers, given how much traffic they've pushed that way. I wasn't in a position to pay for it when they rolled out Peacock and what I've heard about the service since then is hardly inspiring.

Time lags from the different providers make following the match here just seem like a long, frustrating train of spoilers.

WWE is going to peacock soon

I wonder if the live events shown on that platform will lag as well?

 

[Alan Whittle]

If Brighton go down it’s VAr fault. That was a goal, then u have the Man U pen after the final whistle(was thi season right?)

Mmm. That and their complete incompetence.