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Premier League Round Up (Apr 6-7 2024)

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Another weekend dominated by refs and VAR as controversial decisions for Arsenal and Man City, plus yet another one against Wolves ensured the officials were the biggest talking point of the weekend once more. It’s par for the course now and even when they’re right it’s still a shitstorm.

 

I’ll start with City’s trip to Palace. The only thing I’ve seen from the game are clips on twitter of the Palace opening goal by Mateta (who looks a different player since the managerial change) and the stonewall penalty they were denied just before half time. Nothing will be made of it because it never is when it’s City. Can you imagine the inquest if that was us though?

 

It should be a penalty but because refs have been allowing stuff like that all season (usually from set-pieces rather than open play like this one) it’s easy for pundits to just gloss over it as one of those “you won some you lose some” calls (which it is) instead of asking how come these decisions ALWAYS go in City’s favour. It’s virtually the same as the one Everton were awarded at Newcastle last week, and I haven’t seen anyone claiming that wasn’t a pen. Even Newcastle fans didn’t dispute it. Yet no-one in the media cared that Manchester’s own Paul Tierney dismissed it and that VAR looked at it for all of 5 seconds before clearing it.

 

City would probably have gone on to win the game anyway as they usually do, but every fucking year it’s the same. Every set of fans in the country thinks the refs are against their team and they all have countless incidents they can point to as to why that is. It doesn’t mean they’re right, it just shows that every team gets fucked over from time to time. Every team except one. The one with the most money and who pays for refs to fly over to the Middle East on lucrative side gigs. As Matt Le Tissier would say, makes you think.

 

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DaveT

Agree totally about the Wolves offside, and made similar comments on one of the threads. Amusingly, on MotD they showed the line from the rule book which talks about being in an offside position and 'clearly obstructing the opponent's line of vision'. They then showed the Wolves player virtually standing on the goalie's toes, blocking any view in front of him...... and the intellectually-challenged pillocks still thought the decision was wrong.

As for Jordan Ayew, he's always near the top of the Most Fouled charts on account of the fact that his first instinct is to flop to the floor at the first suggestion of a challenge. In this instance, however, Gvardiol just runs into him and flattens him. As it's City, there's no action. I'm getting to the point now where I just can't be arsed wasting emotional energy on it - it's just all so blatant, I've just about given up.

And Burnley - probably the only time they haven't tried to play from the back was at Anfield, when they launched it every time. Their prerogative, of course, but they're not good enough to do it at this level anyway, so why pretend? Unless you've got a Kolossal Kunt as your manager.

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dave u

Yeah agree with every word of that mate.

 

The MOTD pundits either need to do some research themselves, or the BBC should pay someone to do it for them, because al they had to do was bring up every similar instance in the last couple of years to see that they always disallow these, even when they're nowhere near as blatant as this one.

 

The only exception was City of course, but even then it was admitted afterwards that it was a mistake and it should have been disallowed. The shock and incredulity from Lineker, Dublin and Wright is ridiculous. Do some fucking homework lads and you'll realise the ref and VAR had no choice.

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redinblack

Whenever I think of Arsenal, I think of John Thomson on the Fast Show.

 

And the face on Ben Shite just makes me ill. He looks like a roadie for Wham.

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Nolongerathletic

Very good...I was torn between two references, i.e.  Watkins and Calvert Lewins knickers and then Smeagol and Gollum, but I will side with latter as you popped and acute on Smeagol and I can't find on Mac keyboard!

 

As for Mr Brains that is Vincent Kompany, a guy that hit a worldly once upon a time...he was playing for one of the best teams in the world for an age and like Ederson had pretty much fck all to do for seasons, not a patch on Diaz, Stones or even Laporte but he has gone down as some sort of legend...he could trap a ball further than I could kick it! Mr football!!

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