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Match **** Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur Sunday 4:30 ****
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Whatever, it's what it's there for.
That's nothing. We can clear a stadium at half time!
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My scouse mate is convinced this should have been a pen!
I said he’d have had a stronger challenge jostling for the urinals after the match!
He’s clearly thrown himself to the ground and should have booked for simulation.
IMO, this exact thing has been happening to us for months. Refs giving opposition players free kicks when they foul US.
I'm gonna say it - a huge part of why I go early in matches is the very un-fan-friendly kick off times.
Last home game Vs Palace - dogshit football, yes. Also, 8pm kick off on a work night.
I'm sure the same logic applies to teams up and down the country. TV games are getting more frequent, but becase the broadcasters are greedy, they don't have many on at the same time where possible.
So fans end up with 8pm (any night sucks) and then we're now out to 4.30pm on Sunday.
All the Spurs fans have a long trip home, and let's face it, half the scouse lot are probably from the South East too.
All the blame is on the fans and the football, but the TV greed is just as big a problem for early exits IMO.
The number of these we have had against us this season as well as the shit against us. We should be serving the PGOL with a claim for damages if we go down.
It's not there to be abused
I agree it's impractical for VAR to effectively re-ref the game in real time however there is perhaps a case for retrospective cards/bans for players who dive and get away with it.
Have a lie down shady. Using it to correct a clear and obvious error is not abusing it, but then you already know that.
?? Of course it is, you can't go around correcting every error on the pitch just because you have the technology to do so, pointless the ref being on the pitch in the first place.
Challenges like this happen all over the pitch, literally every player dives and over exaggerates contact...do you expect VAR to step in and overrule the ref at every opportunity? You're gonna be getting around 30 VAR calls per match in that case.
It wasn't clear and obvious anyway because there was contact so it becomes subjective even if Mac Allister played for it.
But when WE *leave, we're terrible fans who deserve everything we get.
When Liverpool do it, 'every stadium' has the same problem apparently...
* Full disclosure, I've never left a match early btw!
Well once, in the 90s ... Missed an equaliser, and regretted it ever since!
Standard 'Spurs fans are shit' narrative while we keep shelling out thousands to watch wank lol
I get you can't ref every challenge but this was a challenge that led to a free kick that led to a goal.
Is exactly a challenge VAR should be looking at.
Yeah but the only reason it's being scrutinised is because a goal was directly scored from it, so how is VAR meant to know that the end result will be a goal?
some stuff off the ball officials miss, man city Woolwich are so good at it..I've NO DOUBTS it/they alter games by it.. maybe post match round ups by Var officials giving points out, would put them off.. they only do it when they're sure they can get away with it. irritates the fuc out of me.
I always thought they went back and looked at all goals?Yeah but the only reason it's being scrutinised is because a goal was directly scored from it, so how is VAR meant to know that the end result will be a goal?
What was the game where a player jumped and landed on the opposition's foot so they disallowed it?
For me, I always assumed VAR would look at the awarding of that free kick as a matter of routine.
Yeah I mean they do but to not award that goal would be in a different phase of play.
What you're asking for is VAR to get involved on the free kick as soon as the ref gave it but your setting a bad precedent if you did that.
It's not. There are specific use cases, unless you want t a football game to take 4 hours
Go look at the replay again. You should know the difference.....