Premier League 23/24
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Toronto John
Fans' Favourite
I don't hate giving up the 3 points to them as long as they did something with them. A win today and they are out of the bottom three, temporarily at least as it's Everton-Forest tomorrow. But this is poor today.
northstandmark
UTC Legend
Do or die for them at the time, we had sickness in the camp, and didn’t finish them off when we had the chances!
ForHeavensSake
Reserves
Agree. The difference being that we fluffed and farted around in that first half when we should have killed that game and not leaving them with something to fight for in the second half. Brentford did exactly what we should have done against an awful defense.
Sorry Roger
Fans' Favourite
Both Notts Forest and Everton have been truly awful so far.
Red Sky
Star Player
They're not the team they were. Injuries and fatigue have caught up with them. Their squad depth has always been poor for the PL. But their first XI when fit was extremely competitive.
Agree, but we lost to the poor version!
TrueCherry
Star Player
Amazing! Clear handball by Ashley Young arm away from his body. Shot was on target - no penalty!!!
chriscooke
First Team
Compare that to Smith's handball against Man Utd. What a joke
TrueCherry
Star Player
Exactly!
Neil Dawson
UTC Legend
Unbelievable. Surely PGMOL must be so embarrassed. One week apart, and yesterday’s Grealish one… all looked at in a studio so no individual blips. Staggeringly incompetent
SeafrontSupporter
Star Player
Best outcome today is a point each for them, which is immediately deducted by the PL for...well, just for the fun of it for everyone else
I think the illness we had in the camp impacted us massively that day. But, we still done enough in the first half to win the game.
VAR has killed it completely.
Nobody even knows who is making the decisions anymore.
The refs bottle big calls and leave it to the VAR.
The VAR is intent not to interfere because they’re told not to, nobody understands what clear and obvious is.
VAR has made the officiating noticeably worse, the refs seem to think they don’t have to make big calls anymore because VAR will help them, they don’t. But even when they go make big calls and get them wrong the VAR still doesn’t intervene.
The whole concept of clear and obvious makes the whole thing untenable. Too many calls are subjective and too many Bacolod are spoiling the broth. Scrap it all and just go back to the way it was pre VAR. there will still be incorrect decisions but at least the refs will be put in a position where they actually feel like they have to make them again. There is literally no benefit to this.
Nobody even knows who is making the decisions anymore.
The refs bottle big calls and leave it to the VAR.
The VAR is intent not to interfere because they’re told not to, nobody understands what clear and obvious is.
VAR has made the officiating noticeably worse, the refs seem to think they don’t have to make big calls anymore because VAR will help them, they don’t. But even when they go make big calls and get them wrong the VAR still doesn’t intervene.
The whole concept of clear and obvious makes the whole thing untenable. Too many calls are subjective and too many Bacolod are spoiling the broth. Scrap it all and just go back to the way it was pre VAR. there will still be incorrect decisions but at least the refs will be put in a position where they actually feel like they have to make them again. There is literally no benefit to this.
Druss_the_Legend
UTC Legend
Ref says Young got the ball. Replay shows he clearly didn't and just went through the player instead and VAR looks at it and says, "nah all good".
SlowDownDerek
UTC Legend
Why didn't Smith kick off at the time? He just seemed to accept it.
It’s only clear and obvious if the challenge results in either death or grievous bodily harm. Or an obvious handball error if a player physically catches the ball and runs up to the ref screaming “Look at me you daft wan*er I caught the ball.”
What’s the point? To get a booking for no reason?
