The way certain teams are allowed to break financial rules without punishment and somehow get all the big decisions in their favor really needs investigating as it is starting to stink.
There are bad decisions and there are biased bad decisions. We have way too many of both even with VAR.
Just look at our game so far today! The officiating is embarrassing for the level of the EPL.
Correct. We need to improve the standard and neutrality of the officials more than anything. Remove VAR and we will be complaining of bad biased decisions. Keep VAR and we will company about bad biased decisions. Without better referees nothing changes.
Being angry at VAR is ignoring the real...
On his return!? We should be looking to transition him into the coaching staff as he gets older and create a pathway for people like him to move into management with us.
They didn't really. It just didn't work out this time. Had Dahood been decent and Baleba been less raw it would have been pretty good.
I suspect they wanted to bring in Barco in the summer but it didn't work out and had to wait.
That is the risk we have and it's the only way we will compete...
Exactly this. It highlights how bad and how biased the officiating is. VAR if used correctly should reduce bias and give good officials extra tools to make better decisions. Instead it is shining a light on how bad and biased they are.
I am amazed the media is not talking about this instead of...
Serious questions need to be asked after that. The offside call was so bad it's hard to not think it's fixed. How you get the lines wrong like that with all the time and checks so often without something strange going on is...well itn makes you think.