Weststander
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Not remotely anything like a pen. Calvert-Diver trod on Dunk, then incredibly for an athlete …. dived.
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[Albion] Everton vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***
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Not remotely anything like a pen. Calvert-Diver trod on Dunk, then incredibly for an athlete …. dived.
hart's shirt
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Lineker: "It was the way they played in the wide areas..."
Shearer: "Watch the way he (Mitoma) drives through winning the ball...the turnover I thought from Brighton was magnificent..."
Hart: "Brighton provided so many options for the strikers..."
Plenty of praise from Shearer for Albion's width provided from Minteh, Mitoma and Adingra, and the "torrid" time that it caused Everton.
Well done MOTD.
Shearer: "Watch the way he (Mitoma) drives through winning the ball...the turnover I thought from Brighton was magnificent..."
Hart: "Brighton provided so many options for the strikers..."
Plenty of praise from Shearer for Albion's width provided from Minteh, Mitoma and Adingra, and the "torrid" time that it caused Everton.
Well done MOTD.
And a unanimous view on VAR overturning the penalty decision. 3-0. F u Dyche!
Washie
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Hart giving the goalkeepers perspective actually really helped show why positioning is so important for a goalkeeper and sometimes the "obvious" positioning is incorrect.
Iggle Piggle
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I agree. Total dive but given the new instructions I thought it could have been ignored. It wouldn't be the worst decision given against us by a mile.
I often think back to the BBC's half-time coverage of Hughton's Albion v Man City FA Cup semi at Wembley (which I saw next-day).
Lineker, scoffing: "Cor, you wouldn't want to play up front in that team, eh Alan?"
We've come a long way, baby.
AmexRuislip
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Head and Shoulders above the rest.
Weststander
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WHL on repeat, set an incredibly low bar for incompetence.
Iggle Piggle
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That game still gives me PTSD.
B-right-on
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Really don't understand why you think VAR got it wrong.
The ref blew the whistle for a foul on DCL by Dunk because Mr Ref thought Dunk tripped DCL.
VAR reviewed it and seen that DCL trod on Dunks ankle and then had a fight with gravity (and lost).
So the refs thought, which was Dunk fouled DCL, was wrong.
How is this NOT a clear and obvious error not matter how high this fabled bar is?
Weststander
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So many shocking decisions for the home team there in recent seasons. For example Romero has to commit multiple red card assaults, to get a red card.
It’ll easily be big enough for the Championship
beorhthelm
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reducing doesn't mean no intervention. this is what VAR is supposed to do, see the ref misread the contact and get them to review it. its not a case of minutely assessing who got a touch first or using 8 angles to show a player brushed the other.
Then there would be no point having VAR. This was a clear and obvious error, exactly what VAR was brought in for.
Iggle Piggle
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I get and agree with the logic but didn't think any logic would be applied today. Stockley park has made baffling decisions for years. When the guvner says "Do nothing as the referee's decision is final" I expected the guys on VAR to have a day off.
Luckily.for us, they decided to actually watch it.
Arthritic Toe
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Dyche: "Historically we never get penalties" 
He used to spout the same line at Burnley too. They probably do get fewer than most. If you play a long ball game and are hardly ever in the penalty area - thats going to happen. It aint rocket science.
He used to spout the same line at Burnley too. They probably do get fewer than most. If you play a long ball game and are hardly ever in the penalty area - thats going to happen. It aint rocket science.
You're making the wrong argument here! VAR didn't overturn the referee's decision, as has so often happened in recent years of the disastrous and inept operation of VAR.
They thought the ref. might have got it wrong, so they asked the ref. to have a second look for himself. He did, and saw that his initial instinct was wrong, so rescinded the pen.
That's 'Umpire's call' working to perfection.
B-right-on
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I want to highlight what an utter tool and thug Tarkowski is.
That deliberate knee to the back of Pedro's neck was worth at least a yellow. It was absolutely disgusting from a real tosser of a player.
That he got one a few mins later for his hack at JP, shows that he had malicious intent.
He's up there with Fernandez, Kane and 3/4 of the Chelsea squad, as utter bellends.
That deliberate knee to the back of Pedro's neck was worth at least a yellow. It was absolutely disgusting from a real tosser of a player.
That he got one a few mins later for his hack at JP, shows that he had malicious intent.
He's up there with Fernandez, Kane and 3/4 of the Chelsea squad, as utter bellends.
Weststander
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I wonder if they should simply shortcut it like rugby union. Instructing Hooper; not a foul by Dunk, no pen, yellow card for Calvert for simulation.
That’d be my preference.
The pitchside TV thing is silly.
No one in rugby union claims refs have been undermined.
Please provide a screenshot of any contact before he takes the dive. I am betting you cant
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