VAR


It's a decision that could have gone either way, right? If the ref disallowed it in real time, fine. If the ref allowed the goal, then nobody is really complaining either. What's so galling is that we have a system that reviews and looks for any reason why a goal might be disallowed meaning this 50/50 decision is poured over in slow motion again and again, giving it impact it doesn't deserve.

As soon as that is identified to the referee there's only going to be one decision.
 


It’s annoying. Particularly when the view shown on the pitch side screen isn’t the best (the one from in side the net shown after it was disallowed looks less like interference). But after jostling the keeper you have to get back the right side of him.

Ndiaye could have still been in an offside position, but as long as he wasn’t goal side of the keeper, and as long as he wasn’t between the header and the keeper, then th offside would be irrelevant and the goal stands. So, arguably if not very popularly, it was naive by Ili. Details matter.

Can’t condone many of the other decisions though. Grealish getting booked and the bloke pulling him down deliberately not getting booked is all the evidence you need of refs treating specific players differently.
 

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