[Albion] Premier League 11-14/8/23

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Apologies from Webb incoming.

Time to fire up the 'team with most PGMOL apologies' league table.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

O'Neil has just said that he was told they want the on field ref to make the decision. You can possibly understand why Hoops didn't give it but that is why VAR are supposed to step in. Surely at worst, they should have asked him to come and have a look on the monitor to confirm he was happy with his decision.

I'm sure on field refs are now holding back on 50/50 calls knowing that VAR should be there to back them up but if that doesn't happen then they all look stupid.

 

[Triggaaar]

I’ve got a feeling that we are going to get an awful lot of this ourselves this season.

By 'this', you mean the bad decision Wolves got, rather than the favourable decision Manure got?

 

[Bodian]

I guess they'll excuse it along the lines of 'the ball had gone....natural momentum', or some other such bollocks.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I guess they'll excuse it along the lines of 'the ball had gone....natural momentum', or some other such bollocks.

I thought that, but the ball HADN'T gone. It went straight up in the air and was still in the box!

Absolute farce. Another apology - or crap reason behind the decision - incoming. Disgraceful either way.

 

[Seagull58]

O'Neil has just said that he was told they want the on field ref to make the decision. You can possibly understand why Hoops didn't give it but that is why VAR are supposed to step in. Surely at worst, they should have asked him to come and have a look on the monitor to confirm he was happy with his decision.

I'm sure on field refs are now holding back on 50/50 calls knowing that VAR should be there to back them up but if that doesn't happen then they all look stupid.

You should get rid of VAR if it's not going to make a decision there.
The VAR official should not be asking how bad is that ref's decision. It should be asking is that decision wrong.

 

[Pevenseagull]

When the ref went over the the sideline I thought he was going to have a quick look at a screen and give the pen.

Farce.

Crooked farce.

 

[AlexBH]

When the ref went over the the sideline I thought he was going to have a quick look at a screen and give the pen.

Farce.

Crooked farce.

The officials were more concerned with cutting out dissent than making the right decisions. Priorities all wrong.

 

[Bob!]

 

[AlexBH]

Lol that’s no bloody use to Wolves and O’Neil if his team end up getting relegated by 1 point and he gets boot. He should tell them to stuff their apology where the sun don’t shine.

 

[Simster]

Lol that’s no bloody use to Wolves and O’Neil if his team end up getting relegated by 1 point and he gets boot. He should tell them to stuff their apology where the sun don’t shine.

Or if Man Utd get top 6/4 because of those extra 2 points they didn't earn.

 

[Dave the hatosaurus]

I was looking at that thinking, as i said to mrs DTH, well now Wolves have got a stonewall pen. Of course completely forgetting that the game was at old trafford!
I wonder if we may see next week a few Wolves players going down easy in the box looking for some recompense for tonight although i cannot remember that happening for us after last years fiascos.
Was looking forward to my trip next week but certainly a little more nervous now.

 

[Dave the hatosaurus]

Well if, as has been suggested, the VAR official was the same as in our match Howard Webb will surely have to act. I cannot accept, like everyone else posting, that it was not possible to see that it was an actual stonewaller right from the start let alone on a replay.

 

[GT49er]

Ah well, that's alright then ...........................

 

[Easy 10]

Yep.
This is fine. Nothing to see here.

 

[Ethelwulf]

That see you next Tuesday Salisbury needs sacking . What a terry fuckwit

 

[Nobby]

Well if, as has been suggested, the VAR official was the same as in our match Howard Webb will surely have to act. I cannot accept, like everyone else posting, that it was not possible to see that it was an actual stonewaller right from the start let alone on a replay.

He will just get left out of one game. And will then be back
PGMOL not fit for purpose
VAR has never been fit for purpose

 

[Nobby]

Howard Webb apologises.

He’s probably got a standard letter he sends out each time

VAR is not fit for purpose. Let’s just go back to enjoying games where one referee makes a cock up - they’re only human and all that

Rather than now we have TWO refs that make a cock up each time.


So now that we will forever have these VAR farces - what is the point of
A: attending live games and spending increasing amounts of hard earned
B: playing a supposedly equal sport in the Premier League
C: the PGMOL

An anyone on here explain please

 

[Icy Gull]

Time to fire up the 'team with most PGMOL apologies' league table.

I think we need a thread specifically for VAR cock ups and a table of just who has benefited from them. We will not be winning that league either

We could be in with a shout of keeping our most apologies issued by PGMOL title though.

 

[Muzzman]

Webb’s going to have to apologise every week isn’t he?

That’s… Howard’s way.