VAR

[Bebeto]

Something needs to changed in the summer...today again an easy decision could have had a huge impact on the title. Clear handball yet the referee chooses to close his eyes...arsenal fan perhaps?

 

[Nymzee]

Something needs to changed in the summer...today again an easy decision could have had a huge impact on the title. Clear handball yet the referee chooses to close his eyes...arsenal fan perhaps?

It wasn't a problem with VAR.

 

[Chegsy]

It wasn't a problem with VAR.

Didn't see the game. Did they send Oliver to the screen?

 

[Nymzee]

Didn't see the game. Did they send Oliver to the screen?

Yes and he didn't overturn.

 

[Infernus]

It wasn't a problem with VAR.

Indeed. The technology is there for all to see, it was a clear handball. The issue is that those using the technology are under strict instructions to give certain decisions in favour of certain clubs.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

It wasn't a problem with VAR.

It's a shocking decision, I kind of wonder if all season long the ref's been wanting to tell VAR to shove it when they call him to the monitor and he's chosen the last possible moment to do it. Maybe it's ego, maybe it's trying to make a point, maybe he knows it doesn't really make a difference to either team, but it's still a bad, bad decision.

 

[Chegsy]

Yes and he didn't overturn.

Whats the score with handballs? Can't VAR just overturn the referees decision? Or will it always go to the screen?

 

[Khalekan]

PL corrupt to the end.

I mean, that was a “clear and obvious error”.

The very definition of the VAR mission statement.

The boys in the VAR office did their job.

But the referee decides to stick with his erroneous decision.

He must have been following Masters’s instructions to make sure Arsenal won.

 

[Del-boy]

Wanted the league table looking as close as possible at the end for the title race. No way that wasn’t being given. If that was at the other end it’s disallowed and a yellow card for our player.

 

[Khalekan]

Didn't see the game. Did they send Oliver to the screen?

Yes.

They flagged it up and he went to the screen and ignored the evidence of his own eyes.

No fault of VAR on this occasion.

 

[Chegsy]

Yes.

They flagged it up and he went to the screen and ignored the evidence of his own eyes.

No fault of VAR on this occasion.

Usually always get overturned as well. How many times has a ref been sent the monitor and stuck with the original decision?

 

[oglop44]

Maybe I'm just living in my own little world but I don't really think that was a handball, think the ref got it right. You can argue consistency across a season of course but in the spirit of the game I don't want to see handball given for situations like that, even if it is against us!

 

[jtl60]

Absolutely shocking decision. Imagine if city had been drawing?
Pathetic corruption of the highest order

 

[Quadvod]

I read somewhere that Oliver doesn’t like having his decisions questioned by the var team as he sees himself as the top dog referee - suspect that was him slapping them back down today

 

[Bebeto]

Maybe I'm just living in my own little world but I don't really think that was a handball, think the ref got it right. You can argue consistency across a season of course but in the spirit of the game I don't want to see handball given for situations like that, even if it is against us!

Yet if he scores a goal using the same contact of his arm, the goal would be invalidated...clear handball in the current rules.