Match Thread Aston Villa 0-1 Everton. Sunday 18th January 2026 @ 16:30

[BainesontoastNEW]

Garner with a Hollywood pass.

 

[Fedlingen]

Scandalous from VAR.

Match Officials​

Referee:Tony Harrington
Video Assistant Refereeaul Howard
Assistant Referee 1:Steven Meredith
Assistant Referee 2:Sian Massey-Ellis
Fourth Official:Farai Hallam
Assistant VAR Official:Stuart Attwell

Atwell's there. Makes sense then.

 

[wearethefamousefc]

Good strength by Armstrong there.
Must have a good gym at Preston !

Strong by name...

 

[rigg]

If Grealish hit a pass first time he's open up so many more chances.

 

[UltraVires]

My interpretation as well, people saying it’s not offside are wearing the royal blue tinted glasses

No, the question is does Armstrong interfere with play?

Armstrong jumps with an entirely different player and has no impact on the player challenging with Jake for the ball. Given the ball goes past Armstrong and his man without any touch, he is literally not “interfering with play”.

 

[PhilM]

They never used to be given, but he attempted to play the ball whilst offside. I’d be wanting it disallowed against us. (Probably wouldn’t be like)

That's my take on it, too. If it was against us, I would want it chalked off. The elephant in the room, however, is the inconsistencies.

Do I think it would more often than not be ruled out in other games? I ain't so sure.

 

[MichaelEFC96]

Howard Webb has somehow made VAR worse

Needs sacking

 

[matty1878]

Are we supposed to brush up on the rules every week now. I am starting to not undersand the game.

or after it “should of been allowed”

it’s irreverent then when they do all that stuff after the games

 

[JLW]

This might be the slowest PL game I’ve ever seen

 

[Rita_Poon]

guesson hits the bar. pickford in no mans land.

 

[sdk]

our fans just the best in the world

VAR has checked and overturned this statement.

 

[Paul Rideout]

Having an actual full back on both sides creates so much more space going forwards… even if thy aren’t the best

 

[Ring master]

Thought O'brien is just offside myself .using the villa player by the left bottom corner

 

[Rita_Poon]

was a looping header.

corner villa.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Considering they’re going for the title and we’re not very good; this hasn’t been too bad if we can get to HT still in the game