Jon Moss' recent performances especially Arsenal vs us - the offside goal the most memorable and his whole catalogue of errors in favour of City vs Burnley last week and now yesterday's game shows that controversy is a permanent theme when Jon Moss is the referee.
As I posted yesterday
It always used to be said that the best referees were the ones you hardly ever noticed, but by contrast you always know when it's JON MOSS as the referee.
The case for VAR I think is now unanswerable.
Even aside from the controversy at Old Trafford, the Laca handball goal for Arsenal (and perhaps a contentious Palace second penalty), the Forest handball to score against Leeds are perhaps two extremely obvious examples of decisions that could have been reversed.
If VAR is brought in in such a fashion where the officials running it are equally as incompetent as the ones on the field and with no thought given to best practice, which tbf was the case in the trial program last season, then it won't help but rather hinder the game.
The World Cup showed better practice and more pertinently for any new system introduced here is that it can be done from a resources and practical point of view, most of the top European leagues are now running with it and seeing benefits.
It will still unfortunately have its share of howlers getting through and won't completely eradicate the injustices or dreadful decisions by any means but it would vastly improve the percentage of correct ones.
As with other sports, when initially introduced it is likely to be far from perfect and obvious flaws will need to be corrected, the trials currently running can never really simulate actual live match situations properly and can only take you so far. In other sports the systems were refined once introduced and did improve in time to a point where now the benefits are unarguable. We really can't have the current comedy of errors where only the referee doesn't know much longer.
If Spain and Germany can run it successfully then it doesn't make any sense at all why the richest league of all should still be in the dark ages.
People once took a stand against goalmouth technology, even after system had been tested and shown to work, remember Mr.Corruption himself, Michel Platini?
What the refs said about yesterday
Why is it always Jon Moss? - you can excuse one or two in that maybe not in the right position etc, but controversy follows this man around. (He looks fairly hefty to me too)
Clattenburg clearly thinks it was incorrect
MARK CLATTENBURG: Man United should not have been awarded a penalty for Idrissa Gueye's tackle on Anthony Martial... the Frenchman exaggerated his movement to make it look like a foul
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... rtial.html
Keith Hackett's view
No VAR, no sense
Referee's view | Keith Hackett on the decision to award United a penalty against Everton
The penalty awarded by Jon Moss for the challenge by Idrissa Gueye on Anthony Martial was another example of how we desperately need VAR in the Premier League.
From the angle Jon had I can totally understand why he pointed to the spot. But as more replays became available it was obvious that Gueye had actually got a touch on the ball before making any contact with Martial, who then went on to fall far too theatrically.
I think VAR would have seen that touch and overturned the decision. It really does baffle me that we can see at home that the decision was questionable, but the referee can’t do anything about it, and I think that needs to change.
