Unbelievable

Thank fuck

How fucking close is that!?

Oh man, thought that was in!

Lol

Oh look, ratface is down in the box

If only we could convert corners

Isak working his ass off

Burn playing a dangerous game here

Yep. Always looking inside outside of the box. Needs to stretch them with his pace and trickery

ASM should be looking for the pen. Drive at them in the box man

Would have been offside

Another chance goes begging

Willock should score there really

I don’t know, maybe let the lad earn his place in his side as he gets to grips with things after a life changing move? If he’s not yet good enough to get significant game time at Hearts he wouldn’t have seen much game time here anyway.

It’s not wrong. See: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/sheikh-mansour-almost-bought-newcastle-manchester-city-105032926.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALykmJ06jHn0S5IYHibO3jTOO5VzreF64Onq0-oMqEJDcjWuofnxfH4C6uWGrdJfKGQrUxdDz5BbkDj-jkcRCXbRPx4RrTyf8Ol8Vpavoaqfl8heYSzoj2mXSEuCb_qMAOvF56jOkVWqDpvfduwgFiC97tT1rhh6xerPftTkJqKu

Or they have seen how much it defuses tensions in other leagues to see a man own up to his mistake so people can move on..?

So, rather refreshingly, and as I have alluded to before is quite common, a Eredivisie referee has apologised on camera for making the wrong decision not awarding a penalty for this incident, even after being asked to check by VAR: Referees are people. People make mistakes. At least own up to them.

Chelsea

Potter won’t be there start of next season

The goal would have stood had the VAR referee not called Tierney to watch the sequence. Tierney accidentally got it right on the pitch, and was tempted to reconsider. Before we had VAR no such thing as a VAR referee existed, hence VAR is at fault. VAR is not just some screen, it’s technology being used by people to inform their decision making. It’s not lead to better, or more consistent, decision making though.

Shit, that’s Southampton fucked

Not really. There are three refs in the VAR boot, right? Let them all make that call and if one says it’s not obvious to them, drop the VAR case before looking into the actual rules.

Clear and obvious is quite a useful principle though. E.g. if only one out of five angles supports the potential error theory, it certainly wasn’t clear and obvious. It was introduced to correct obvious things the referee may have missed, not for this level of nitpicking and finding an angle to suit the preferred outcome. just how did we get here, really. As gbandit suggests, no ordinary football fan would look at that passage of play yesterday and suggest it was a clear and obvious case of offside that the referee and linesman somehow missed.

Interesting question. Probably in that case they would have ruled Longstaff didn’t interfere with play. Just goes to show how fucked up these rules nowadays are

Another aspect to it is that I think most people can stomach an honest human (referee) mistake much easier than an inexplicable VAR call where you need five angles and a large amount of subjectivity to still not have a “clear and obvious” error that needs overturning. Between Isak’s Liverpool goal, the Crystal Palace push, Joelinton’s supposed handling of the ball vs Leicester, the Man U final offside decision and now this goal chalked off for bullshit reasons, that’s at least five curious decisions involving only us this season, that I would challenge being “correct” even if according to Kaizero’s stats they undoubtedly are counted as such. The bottom line is that goals and penalty decisions now seem much more subjective than they ever were before. If VAR was used to correct clear errors from the officials on the pitch, such as missing a clear offside or a horror tackle, nobody would object. It is however being used selectively and subjectively to influence the outcome of games. I was critical when it was introduced and told it would improve, but it hasn’t. It needs to go, simple as.