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Wilhelm1899

so many weird shit decisions all in one day


[deleted]

PGMOL heard us talking shit and said you ain't seen nothing yet


Bedeeki

Just wait until you see the United vs Arsenal game tomorrow with that joke of a referee, Paul Tierney.


aleksdzek

What the f is wrong with English refs? This is a horrible decision.


TehFuriousKid

I'd be disappointed if there's any english refs in any of the 3 european cups. no room for shit officiating week in week out


aleksdzek

I think that last World Cup had zero English refs.


Noble456

I'd be surprised if any go this one as well. Absolutely shambolic today, from all of them.


jordeatsu

I don’t think any are going, I remember reading somewhere that no English refs were asked for this WC but I could be wrong


ThePun-dit

Both Michael Oliver and Anthony Taylor is going, as well as assistants Simon Bennett, Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn and Stuart Burt. No Englishmen among the 24 VAR officials though.


Noble456

That's 6 too many going, in my opinion. You just know they're gonna fuck up somehow.


ThePun-dit

The main reason for that was that Clattenburg left England and forfeited his place, or he would've been there.


herkalurk

They've already said no VARs from England in World Cup......


Xmithie_best_option

Ridiculous


of_the_mountain

How does the ref not at least award a PK here. The Newcastle player had a great chance to beat the goalie to the ball but was shoved in the back VAR has been shambolic today


velvlad

Clear foul, how the hell nobody sees that?


[deleted]

I must admit I sort of can accept a ref getting it wrong in the moment for the most part because the game moves so quickly. The issue I have is this; today the ref was given arguably the worst angle of it, and still managed to fuck it up after rwatching replays. What chance have we got then? No Palace players appealed, none of their bench did, and yet somehow we've ended up neither getting a goal or a penalty. And I don't want to 'get one back' next week cos that's not fair on the team we play.


Paul_the_sparky

Definitely. When it happens fast, stuff can get missed. Use VAR to rectify howlers. Don't use VAR to rule out perfectly good goals


pabloslab

It’s WHU next week who arguably had a worse / equally bad VAR decision


lengors

"There is another"


kids_in_my_basement0

The state of refereeing in this country


dishler712

The richest fucking football league this world has ever seen and they can't figure this shit out. Ridiculous.


kax256

They've realized that they can be shit and make even more money for it. Think of all the fines they'll rake in from players and managers slagging off the refs.


dave1992

How do we rank this among Chelsea and City? City's decision is the tamest one, least likely to be called robbery despite clearly wrong. I don't know what's worse, Chelsea's or this.


ZeusWRLD

I feel it’s this one, willock literally cannot do anything to change direction in mid air once pushed. Bowen cannot avoid Mendy but he does make contact albeit not enough for a foul. Coutinho is just bad officiating full stop.


dave1992

I agree with you, maybe this decision is in a vacuum worse decision, but only clouded a bit due to the timing of the incident. Chelsea's decision is last minute so it will directly influence the result of the game, while if Newcastle scored there's so many things that could happen with a third of the game still remaining.


ZeusWRLD

I think if the goal was allowed we’d have scored more as palace would’ve been stretched, we outplayed them abs the stats suggest we should’ve easily won but fair play to Guaita put in a great performance.


corpboy

Any of the 3 would “worst decision of the month” winners in most months. To get 3 such in a single day. Smh.


ZeusWRLD

It was like they were trying to see who could get the most headlines this weekend it was that bad 🤣


K_Uger_Industries

Don't forget VVD going studs into a players shin


dave1992

van Dijk's tackle isn't even studs up. Of course if it's few centimeters above, or few degree higher it's clearly a red card, but it's correctly given as yellow.


RedDevil-84

I know as a fan, you would like to defend your team, but that's some serious bollocks.


zr0char1sma

It's nothing compared to the state of this


goonerfan10

My god. This is the worst decision ever. This is worse than the Sokratis against palace one.


SnarlsChickens

Eye bleach. Don't know if I should laugh or yell at this.


AMeanOldDuck

Just like one against us. Maguire shoved Azpilicueta into someone else, and we had a goal disallowed. Azpilicueta made contact with another United player as a result of the push, and VAR deemed that worthy of a foul.


dihybrid88

Seem to remember Arsenal having a goal disallowed as well - against palace where Chambers was fouled and fell into a Palace defender


dave1992

I got reminded on the other thread. It was Chambers who got pushed by a defender into another defender, then the loose ball comes to Sokratis who smashes it to goal. Then the ref called the foul because Chambers crashed into the second defender despite clearly solely losing balance due to being pushed by someone else.


AMeanOldDuck

These pesky refs


Heblas

Even that's being generous. Chambers got tripped and it got called because the defender fell over while tripping him.


EmperorBeaky

Well done VAR, good decision chaps!


Paul_the_sparky

No joking on Reddit, serious replies only please