Keane's hair pull whilst grappling, must've been a red card in comparison
Did this not get overturned?? You see him get the ball? (Apart from the dive, that’s secondary)
If someone can be bothered to get all the clips together in a list for me, I’m happy to edit together a video of all the decisions this season. I’m quite good with video editing
(Added bonus if someone wants to get clips of decisions which didn’t get given eg, Grealish sent off for clapping, and Van Dijk not carded for it)
(Added bonus if someone wants to get clips of decisions which didn’t get given eg, Grealish sent off for clapping, and Van Dijk not carded for it)
Obes
Player Valuation: £35m
These awful officials have once again made an unholy mess of handball. And who are the fall guys once again…you guessed it. It’s as if we’re in some sort of never-ending experiment to see how many outright wrong decisions can be given before we all combust with anger.
When you actually go through some of the handball decisions with us over the years in which VAR has been present, it’s staggering how we have fallen on the wrong side of every single one.
- Dele Alli’s blatant handball for Spurs, very similar to JOB’s this season, not awarded by VAR after three or four minutes of looking at it.
- Rodri stonewaller denied. Kavanagh didn’t even bother to refer on-field ref to the monitor to have a look, at a time when officials were constantly being told to go to screen.
- Onana handball against City awarded by ref when ball was smashed from close proximity.
- Romeu for Southampton stopped a cross with his arm in the box with a sizeable distance between man and ball, deemed not a pen by all officials.
- Tarkowski handball given by the linesman and upheld by VAR.
- KDH handball given by VAR, after a shot was blasted at him from close distance.
- Jake O’Brien handball against Arsenal awarded by VAR, somehow missed by ref.
- Which brings us to yesterday. As blatant as you can get. A new explanation to worm out of awarding a penalty we got. Accidental handball in the motion of grappling an opponent.
Well I can guarantee if roles were reversed and Barry scored a goal after knocking the ball away from Fernandes accidentally with his hand it would have been instantly disallowed. How can the rules be like this, where they can be manipulated and interpreted however they wish when it’s a defender handling the ball?
Rant over.
When you actually go through some of the handball decisions with us over the years in which VAR has been present, it’s staggering how we have fallen on the wrong side of every single one.
- Dele Alli’s blatant handball for Spurs, very similar to JOB’s this season, not awarded by VAR after three or four minutes of looking at it.
- Rodri stonewaller denied. Kavanagh didn’t even bother to refer on-field ref to the monitor to have a look, at a time when officials were constantly being told to go to screen.
- Onana handball against City awarded by ref when ball was smashed from close proximity.
- Romeu for Southampton stopped a cross with his arm in the box with a sizeable distance between man and ball, deemed not a pen by all officials.
- Tarkowski handball given by the linesman and upheld by VAR.
- KDH handball given by VAR, after a shot was blasted at him from close distance.
- Jake O’Brien handball against Arsenal awarded by VAR, somehow missed by ref.
- Which brings us to yesterday. As blatant as you can get. A new explanation to worm out of awarding a penalty we got. Accidental handball in the motion of grappling an opponent.
Well I can guarantee if roles were reversed and Barry scored a goal after knocking the ball away from Fernandes accidentally with his hand it would have been instantly disallowed. How can the rules be like this, where they can be manipulated and interpreted however they wish when it’s a defender handling the ball?
Rant over.
Wat Tyler
Player Valuation: £70m
Barry should have also had a pen in that Arsenal home game.
Tipp blue
If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
If it's given as a penalty then a red card discussion has to happen, if it's a Red then West ham may have played for a draw. It was a deliberate hand ball he swatted it away and deliberate hand ball is a red.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £50m
That's not even a yellow if a penalty is given I don't think, as the penalty is punishment enough
NathDogg
Player Valuation: £60m
It’s criminal, end of, I still am amazed some supporters are not calling it out for what it is - corruption pure and simple.
I couldn’t even be arsed getting angry, I just laughed for a good few minutes seeing that handball, the foul on Barry (which seems to also be getting ignored - Barry wasn’t grappling, he was getting the ball under control and was then fouled and the ball handled - it’s farcical) and then us not even getting a corner after the entire pantomime with var and the ref was over - just laughable.
We may as well have just walked off the pitch and conceded the result after that.
I said in another thread, just going the match to have a gab and a laugh with mates, I cba getting upset by this charade of football anymore.
I couldn’t even be arsed getting angry, I just laughed for a good few minutes seeing that handball, the foul on Barry (which seems to also be getting ignored - Barry wasn’t grappling, he was getting the ball under control and was then fouled and the ball handled - it’s farcical) and then us not even getting a corner after the entire pantomime with var and the ref was over - just laughable.
We may as well have just walked off the pitch and conceded the result after that.
I said in another thread, just going the match to have a gab and a laugh with mates, I cba getting upset by this charade of football anymore.
