And now right at the end Grealish versus Tottenham

OP You saved me making a post…

The whole rule making body from the refs, to VAR, to the ‘law’ makers, are simply fucking the game up with incompetent ref protectionism and sacrificing the game and players for tech and rules that dont work. VAR can’t seem to understand the offside rule and adding so much extra time each game we now have a 15% increase in players seriously injured…

Nothing going on atm is improving the game in anyway at all.

Didnt see the final 20ish, we talking worse than our win against Liverpool?

Refereeing has been bad for a while but this season has just been so much worse than anything before. Needs a complete overhaul with new people but I doubt we will get that.

The referee for the NewcastleU vs ManU was actually very good I thought.

The City one was a mistake (and I can admit that as a Spurs fan) but not a wrong decision. It was a foul and it was a booking for Royal because he cynically tried to bring Haaland down to waste time.

He’s obviously got caught in two minds whether to pull it up then or not and has ended up getting it arse about face.

There is absolutely no guarantee Grealish would have scored though so City acting like it was a definite goal was the height of arrogance. Davies and Royal were coming round and Vicario is no slouch in these situations either.

Haaland should have been off with a three game ban for screaming abuse in the referee’s face and continuing to scream and swear at him after. The bloke is an absolute twat and they need to come down on these things.

These threads are hitting a new low every week let’s be honest.

Outside of that one mistake the officiating during that match was outstanding. VAR was barely even needed. What is your standard then? Absolute perfection? That’s unrealistic

Not to mention 2 booked players for Bournemouth committing 2/3 more bookable fouls and staying on the pitch. Laughable referees these days they do it for bants I swear.

New lows? They literally messed up a call so badly they had to completely reevaluate VAR communications

A ref blowing the whistle too soon isn’t a new low.

Without even joking the referees are become more famous than the players and all for the very wrong reasons !!! VAR fuck me what a joke that is

That decision by the ref in the city game was the clearest evidence of corruption there’s ever been.

Refs can and do make shit and wrong calls all the time, they can hide behind plenty of things to justify shit decisions though or just flat out claim human error if it’s particularly bad and nobody can really question it.

That one at city though there’s literally no valid reason however suspect and unlikely that can be given for doing what he did other than corruption. He can be seen waving play on as city had the advantage, They then play the ball forward, Grealish is clean through and he then blows and brings it back for a city freekick. The only reason you can bring it back at that point is if there’s no advantage, I’d say grealish being played clean through is a pretty fucking big advantage.

So far nobody can even begin to offer an explanation for it, there’s a reason for that. There isn’t one. It’s clear as day there’s something very suspect occurred there but it looks like it will get brushed under the carpet because pep hasn’t in his words “done an arteta” and made a scene about it.

He really should have tbh its worth the pathetic FA fine he would have got to see how they explain this one.

If the ref goes reverses a decision, game starts with drop ball => corner wasn’t given. Good application of VAR just an unfortunate rule that exists in our game. The City / Grealish decision was atrocious and pure FIFA scripting tho

It’s alright… they’ll say sorry tomorrow.

They are under more intense scrutiny this season than anytime that I can remember. The pressure could be getting to them and leading to more mistakes.