[Football] Tonight's Officials/VAR Thread

[Bozza]

It's perfectly possible to hold both these viewpoints simultaneously:

1. City were considerably better and deserved to win, and
2. The officiating was a load of utter big-club-biased bollocks that gave us nothing at all

 

[Oh_aye]

Tinpot thread. We’ve been shit.

Indeed. It wasn't great but for what it's worth from the West stand I thought Pedro went down easy.

I'd modify the original post and say its hard enough playing city as it is, but when you start the game with an absolute mish mash of a midfield playing some mad avante garde system with an attacking midfielder playing between your central defenders and two slow midfielders pressing high up the pitch ahead of your forwards and a baffled central midfielder neither here nor there against one of the best teams in the world because your arrogant manager has got his head up his arse and regardless of whether its working or not continue to pointlessly recycle the ball along the backline without any options to progress over amd over again and play with all of our players cramped in a ten years space except two forwards 40 yards away it doesn't really help.

Still, Barco was decent!

 

[Affy]

Reminder on the decisions, VAR is now “tweaked” to overrule less, this is almost entirely on the gobshite with the whistle

These things shouldn’t be done mid-season. It’s not fair to all the previous “standards” that have been set.

 

[Deadly Danson]

If you give the Foden freekick then you have to give the Pedro penalty.

100%

 

[Affy]

VAR needs a massive overhaul. I’m not agains the idea of it but the current implementation of it is atrocious.
IMO, it should be there to see things the ref misses such as:
- falling over blades of grass and giving free kicks
- correcting corners/goal kicks when incorrectly awarded
- make offside have “daylight” between attacker and defender rather than a hairs breadth
- not VAR but stop the clock when ball out of play. Dtops All the time wasting and rolling around. Teams will then need to utilise the 3 player around. the corner flag more.
I’m sure there are more..

 

[Deadly Danson]

I'm so done with these God awful officials. Especially VAR. Even though both Arsenal and City were much better than us these poor decisions DO affect the way the games pans out. Gillet has been poor for a while. Its utterly extraordinary how much big teams are getting big decisions and how VAR seem so unwilling to get involved and in which case bin it.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

all the media and punditry class start clutching their pearls whenever anyone suggests corruption, but what else is anyone supposed to think at this point?

Big club bias happens now and has happened for years.

The pundits generally played for the clubs which benefitted for years from highly generous refereeing. If they admit to concerns it belittles their career achievements.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

VAR needs a massive overhaul. I’m not agains the idea of it but the current implementation of it is atrocious.
IMO, it should be there to see things the ref misses such as:
- falling over blades of grass and giving free kicks
- correcting corners/goal kicks when incorrectly awarded
- make offside have “daylight” between attacker and defender rather than a hairs breadth
- not VAR but stop the clock when ball out of play. Dtops All the time wasting and rolling around. Teams will then need to utilise the 3 player around. the corner flag more.
I’m sure there are more..

Less VAR not more please

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Inconsistent is probably the one word assessment

f***ing useless incompetent **** is the non Ofsted rating

 

[Boroseagull]

It was shocking refereeing. Their second goal was not a free kick. Their fourth goal (if it were us) would have been disallowed for both feet at the keeper. so discount those (it would have happened if the teams were reversed). Gross foul continued into the box (potentially 1-2. Handball by Ake to stop Adingra cross - arm in unnatural position (potentially 2-2). Obvious foul on Pedro (potentially 3-2).

Personally I wish the 'Big 6' had have fuvked off to the European Super league a few years ago. It would have been a much nicer place without them and the sycophantic officials that seem to bend to their every whim.

Rant over.

PS....The Spanish commentators on DAZN could not believe that 2 penalties were not even checked as they were obvious, and they couldn't stop laughing and discussing Foden's slip of the feet in the box.

 

[Stat Brother]

I thought they made the game tonight.

Without the ref ES lino and VAR we'd have just lost 0-4.

At least the ref kept us (those that stayed) engaged.
Our freekick in injury time was the highlight, so far, of 2024.

 

[J2 DOG]

The only chance of this game ever becoming a contest or spectacle was totally ruined by a very poor referee!

 

[Clive Walker]

Pedro was going down easily but there was some contact. Not stonewall but we’ve definitely seen them given.

Fodens slip. Disgraceful.

 

[Rookie]

The ref has been awful since he started in the league, just not good enough. Got big decisions wrong but it was the little ones as well. The shirt grabs, 3 I think committed by them, nothing. 1 for us and straight yellow

 

[Sheebo]

HIlariously bad. Not that it matters.

That Pedro one was utterly ludicrous.

Exactly this. Arsenal officials were bad but this was even worse. We deserved to lose both games by a couple but it was absolutely clear big 6 bias for all to see. It will barely get mentioned of course.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Albion players shit, really shit, relegation shit. But the old nsc smokescreen of an emphasis on poor officials.

Then Ignore Thread and relax.

For once just accept the referee was lousy. I watched at home, and even the commentators said as much.

 

[zefarelly]

Giving a freekick for falling over a blade of grass helped them get goal number 2.

He missed the grass, malnourished fake scally slipped over . . . Knock of boots from't markit!

 

[Rookie]

Albion players shit, really shit, relegation shit. But the old nsc smokescreen of an emphasis on poor officials.

Then Ignore Thread and relax.

Don’t think anyone has said we would have won, City are a different class to everyone else in the league, but we can righty call out the shambles of a referee

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The only positive thing about that officiating is that it didn’t effect the result.

Conscious or subconscious, there’s definitely a bias there, especially when you compare the Foden free kick and the Pedro penalty incidents.

It could have affected the result. Two penalties when we have Pedro on the pitch, who doesn’t miss. Their second goal came from a free kick that was a slip not a foul.
Yes, we probably would still lose but lose with our heads high, and maybe zero goal difference instead of negative.

 

[mothy]

I watched on TV. Foden slipped & fell (not dived) & got a free kick. & commentator thought both gross & Pedro were pens, & if ref had given they wouldn't be overruled. Shame they couldn't overrule the non free kick.