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[Deleted member 15344]

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The same poor refs are now looking at the replies and still doing the same poor decisions

 

[BrianM]

I’m maybe going against the Majority here, but I think it was a free kick to Chelsea, Bowen never had to leave his foot in, very soft though.
Newcastle one on the other hand was an absolute shocker.
Van Dijk should of been a red as well, that’s a shocking challenge.

 

[Tashyboy]

Alan Shearer saying what I have said since VAR started.

BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer said: "It is shocking, abysmal, disgraceful - Willock is going to head that ball, so Mitchell shoves him. Michael Salisbury gets it right, it is Lee Mason [VAR official] who somehow bizarrely tells him 'you have made a howler'.

"Lee Mason is the one to blame because it is an inexperienced referee. At this level you have got to get that decision right, he has had no help from VAR. Far too many errors, VAR is not the problem, it is the people who are running it."

 

[ger147]

Presumably Rodgers will be gone very soon, perhaps before next Saturday's game against Aston Villa.

Any names in the frame to take his place?

 

[RichA]

BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer said: "It is shocking, abysmal, disgraceful - Willock is going to head that ball, so Mitchell shoves him. Michael Salisbury gets it right, it is Lee Mason [VAR official] who somehow bizarrely tells him 'you have made a howler'.

Ironic, when a sizeable chunk of Shearer's goals were achieved by giving a defender or keeper an energetic shove before he put it in the net. I was never a fan of him as a player because I thought he got away with too much.

 

[Piece]

Ironic, when a sizeable chunk of Shearer's goals were achieved by giving a defender or keeper an energetic shove before he put it in the net. I was never a fan of him as a player because I thought he got away with too much.

Indeed.

"Shearer in shock defence of a disallowed Newcastle goal." ?

 

[Slime]

How can that be allowed, clear foul.

 

[Deleted member 29109]

Bored of the ManU players crying and complaining to the ref already. That’s a soft decision.

 

[Dando]

Presumably Rodgers will be gone very soon, perhaps before next Saturday's game against Aston Villa.

Any names in the frame to take his place?

Big Sam

 

[Slime]

Bored of the ManU players crying and complaining to the ref already. That’s a soft decision.

.................... but a correct one.

 

[paddyc]

Ref bottled It!

 

[Slime]

 

[Dando]

.................... but a correct one.

Erikson has been taking lessons from Tom Daley and Fernandes

 

[Tashyboy]

Ironic, when a sizeable chunk of Shearer's goals were achieved by giving a defender or keeper an energetic shove before he put it in the net. I was never a fan of him as a player because I thought he got away with too much.

It was but in the same sense, pundits who were forwards protect forwards and defenders the same. Shearer as a forward is saying VAR stinks as it is. Again Shearer and others played in a different era where you could get away with more.

 

[Slime]

Erikson has been taking lessons from Tom Daley and Fernandes

McTominay had just been penalised for a push, what was the difference?

 

[Tashyboy]

Indeed.

"Shearer in shock defence of a disallowed Newcastle goal." ?

I think he was talking about this weekends decisions not decision, it seems the prem league agree as they have asked for an enquiry.

 

[Deleted member 29109]

McTominay had just been penalised for a push, what was the difference?

One was slight contact, the other a two handed push in the back.

 

[Slime]

One was slight contact, the other a two handed push in the back.

But a push, never-the-less.

 

[Slime]

But not undeserved, to be fair.

 

[Slime]