I'll make sure to make everyone stop next time so that the officials can think clearly and in total peace.

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We don't seem to have the best opinion of VAR, judging by the singing.
There were loads of dodgy decisions for big sides today I believe, just reading between the lines on Soccer Saturday.

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I just seen rashfords penalty win on match of the day.

How in the world is that a penalty? And how in the world do the pundits agree it's a penalty?

I know that VAR is not used for booking as this will just slow up the game however if that is a second booking like the Arsenal game surely it should be reviewed before sending a player off.

Isn't the point of VAR to stop the referee making significant errors that impact the game? I reckon Arsenal have a good chance of overturning the sending off on appeal in which case it should have been reviewed at the time.

Edited by Badger11 (27 Aug 2023 8.12am)

One more point

From my humble perspective, it was a stonewall penalty.
There would have been much wailing and lamentation amongst our supporters if Rashford had been our player and a penalty had not been awarded.

Edited by Willo (28 Aug 2023 8.00am)

Ones like that are routinely not awarded to us. It was similar to Eze against Brentford. Rashford's dive was even more obvious. A part of a defender's knee lightly brushed him. The dive included a little spin and dolphin flip - which was nice.
I couldn't help but feel that across the whole weekend, the big sides got the decisions. Cooper couldn't be bothered to even complain. We all know the score.

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