Today's Football - 2023/2024 Season

[DanB90]

The PL and Sky love all that whoppers histrionics on the touchline, his turning away for a pen, the constant kicking off at the officials over every single decision - they feed his warped ego and he thrives in this bent competition.

I proper cringe every time I see him playing up for the cameras.

 

[NathDogg]

My first thought would be that they would check that first, I don't think they even bothered

They will hitch not correcting the on field decision due to the clear and obvious nonsense, it’s there get out of jail card for all the dodgy crap corrupt calls the refs and var have made.

VAR needs scrapping in its current format,but it’s working exactly how they want it to - legalised match fixing.

 

[Cool_Blue]

Drury was really gettin on my wick tonight, he’s found Martin Tyler’s pills alright - never heard him so biased for the RS before.

Yep, the screaming of any RS name when they as much as threatened to shoot was very tedious

 

[Mickey]

In the premier league era, RS have had more penalties than any other side, you would think they had been the dominant force for 30 years if those statistics reflected the best sides attack more ,but hey 1 title in 33 years doesn't suggest that.

Covid cup too not even a proper league title.

 

[DanB90]

Incompetence doesn't come into that decision.

It is one of two things IMHO - firstly, it is either taking the letter of the law to an absurd place; that because Taylor saw him go down three steps after the "contact" and gave the penalty that because that is what the replay showed it is not "a clear and obvious error" because there is nothing in it that differs from what he would have said he saw.

The alternative is that they were given that penalty for non-sporting reasons.

I won’t go as far as using the words fixed, or corrupt, that’s all a bit tinfoil for me personally, but I do believe certain teams get given decisions that others wouldn’t because the ref knows in the back of his mind it will get scrutinised more.

The Spurs offside being a perfect example, shocking bit of officiating obviously. But we had people in the media and their players and manager talking about replays and everything for weeks after. That kind of scrutiny only comes from decisions against a handful of teams.

If that was us, or a Villa or Newcastle, it’s not mentioned again after post match analysis.

 

[HowardsWay]

Guarantee nothing will be done to Jota about that, absolutely nothing.

Proper striker Ian Wright calling it spot on, a fudging joke that.

Nothing will be done because a penalty was awarded thus rewarding the behaviour.

 

[DanEFC92]

Just can't be arsed with football. Losing the love for it every game week.

 

[Rita_Poon]

It's so much easier to disregard their games. And we've enough on our own plate anyhow.

 

[Quadvod]

That was a pen for Newcastle as well - good old var

 

[DanB90]

Got to say though, I don’t mind watching Newcastle get beat at all.

 

[Dixie1sixty]

Utterly astonished at that penalty decision. Even for that lot it's on another level.

He continued for about 5 steps and then just fell over when he realized there was a chance he might not score.

Sickening.

 

[tsubaki]

I won’t go as far as using the words fixed, or corrupt, that’s all a bit tinfoil for me personally, but I do believe certain teams get given decisions that others wouldn’t because the ref knows in the back of his mind it will get scrutinised more.

The Spurs offside being a perfect example, shocking bit of officiating obviously. But we had people in the media and their players and manager talking about replays and everything. That kind of scrutiny only comes from decisions against a handful of teams.

If that was us, or a Villa or Newcastle, it’s not mentioned again after pre match analysis.

The Spurs one is a great example of why the system is so open to corruption potentially (if it isn't already) - I mean, that was clearly a mistake that occurred for reasons that can be examined and understood. That is what a mistaken decision looks like, and things were put in place to fix it.

Things like this on the other hand have happened repeatedly since VAR was introduced, with the laws of the game either ignored, or interpreted in ways that are not in keeping with the spirit in which they were written, or especially that are wildly inconsistent with decisions made by Stockley Park (often the same people) days or weeks previously. That Jota penalty tonight was clearly a dive; Onana's handball against City was clearly not intentional; Siggy was clearly not interfering with play when DCL scored that injury time winner against United.

VAR was advertised as improving the standard of decision making in games. It has obviously failed at that, and yet the refusal of the FA to improve it - in contrast with what happened after the Spurs game - strongly suggests to me that the ambiguity it brings is what the FA want.

 

[DanEFC92]

Hey remember when Richarlison was brought down by Lloris and that was overturned by VAR?

 

[Davideeyore]

I'm speechless really two blatant dives. Not one but two penalties! VAR couldn't be more fraudulent.

The only thing I can take from it is i'm glad it wasn't us I know we've been on the receiving end frequently but the barcodes must be seething. Not that I give two hoots but it will be interesting to see what they say and what their fans take on it is.

 

[NathDogg]

I proper cringe every time I see him playing up for the cameras.

The PL have practically got a shippmann cam on the go - sickening.