[Albion] Pascal Groß handball incident.

[Kalimantan Gull]

Lots of city fans seem really bothered by the ref last night. I just don’t see it. The red card was arguably harsh but it wasn’t a bad decision. They wanted Iranian Ronaldo sent off for his tackle but his foot was not very high and it was not at all malicious. They wanted a pen for lalana foul but not a single city player appealed.

The one where I think they had a point was a foul by burn on Jesus just before fern got booked for hacking biss. That was weird refereeing.

They chose to ignore the obvious handball this thread was about. Plus the weirdest non-booking of the day was when bissouma was running away from silva and he did very well to kick him and was about 5 foot from the ball. It was the most obvious yellow in history.

I simply don’t understand why they call decisions shocking when they are at worst possibly debatable. This was absolutely not like the decision to give saints a penalty for a March foul a yard or more outside the box!

It was quite possibly one of the worst refereeing / VAR displays I've seen for a while. The red card was the least of it, i can just about understand why the decision stood even though I still struggle to see a foul by Cancelo in any of the endless replays. But Jahanbakhsh's foul should be a straight red every day of the week. That handball was so obvious. How Lallana got away with that tackle I do not know, stonewall pen (why Jesus didn't protest is even more strange - and likely the reason he got away with it). And there was that really poor late tackle on Jesus late on which was waved play-on in our favour and then he penalised Fenandinho straight away for a minor foul.

We've had poor VAR calls go against us so whos complaining but City fans are fuming

 

[Uh_huh_him]

It was quite possibly one of the worst refereeing / VAR displays I've seen for a while. The red card was the least of it, i can just about understand why the decision stood even though I still struggle to see a foul by Cancelo in any of the endless replays. But Jahanbakhsh's foul should be a straight red every day of the week. That handball was so obvious. How Lallana got away with that tackle I do not know, stonewall pen (why Jesus didn't protest is even more strange - and likely the reason he got away with it). And there was that really poor late tackle on Jesus late on which was waved play-on in our favour and then he penalised Fenandinho straight away for a minor foul.

We've had poor VAR calls go against us so whos complaining but City fans are fuming

I did like the Match of The Day quote after discussing the Red Card. "Jon Moss on VAR. That's not a comment, just a statement of fact" to much hilarity.

Maybe he felt he owed us something?