Other Football 2023/24

[Moo]

Fucking. Hell.

The refereeing in that Manc match was shocking, very dodgy and in plain sight.  Couldn't give a fuck about the Manc results the rest of the season and if them stealing a point keeps Villa and Spurs honest then that might even be good for us.  But I do care about corruption.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I think that Bournemouth may have been playing against 12 men there. Just a hunch? 

[clangers]

Lucky (corrupt) bastards. There's no way we'd get penalty overturned like that. The ref would probably award two against us.

[an tha]

Fuck the mancs.

[BeefStroganoff]

No such thing as incompetence with referring in this country, it’s straight up bias and corrupt.

[Ronnie Whelan]

2 hours ago, Scott_M said:

If there was ever a time for another 9-0 home win…

We do have history against them...Aldo's final game!

[Anubis]

WTF?

 

 

[Lee909]

3 minutes ago, Anubis said:

WTF?

 

 

 

Wow

Seen some cringey shit online like Spurs looking at themselves as king makers because they play all 3 clubs going for title but bloody hell. 

 

 

Hopefully Spurs result will lead Villa to actually putting out the 1st team in the hope of putting points between them and spurs

[Lee909]

Just noticed if Chelsea win their games in hand they can go level points ts with the mancs in a fight out for Europa Conference place if either can overhaul the mighty Moyes and West Ham

[Jairzinho]

Don't think I've seen a clearer example of a ref on the take since Calciopoli than in the Bologna v Monza game. 

[Lee909]

Just seen that norwegian mountain trolls deflected goal today. Fuck me the spawny twats, that volley was going closer to the corner flag than the goal before it hit the Luton player in the face. Not that it likely made much difference

[Lee909]

Isak really stepping up. If he ends up at Arsenal like some of the recent links they'll be flying and really hard to stop

[Lee909]

That Maddison is a right cunt. Typical modern day player

[Mathewbet1]

That var intervention might be the worst of the season, the manc var collective in full force. 

[BeefStroganoff]

That Man Utd pen was utterly ridiculous. The game is finished.

[Lario]

Isn’t the ref supposed to go to the monitor?
VAR blatantly re-refereed the game today. They basically told him to change his mind and he did.

[an tha]

Did they have any decent footage on MOTD of that Bournemouth overturned pen?

 

The bit I saw on Sky when they were showing VAR footage probed fuck all to me and I didn't see a Sky replay....

[aws]

Just now, an tha said:

Did they have any decent footage on MOTD of that Bournemouth overturned pen?

 

The bit I saw on Sky when they were showing VAR footage probed fuck all to me and I didn't see a Sky replay....

The foul started outside and might or might not have continued inside the area. But no way was it a clear and obvious error by the ref to give it. 

[an tha]

3 minutes ago, aws said:

The foul started outside and might or might not have continued inside the area. But no way was it a clear and obvious error by the ref to give it. 

Clear and obvious is shite - used as a cop out to suit them.

 

Useless cunts.

[Moo]

That overturned pen was utter bullshit, and pure corrupt. The foul clearly continued into the penalty area but the VAR kept stopping the slow mo reply on the outside edge of the area where the foul initially took place. 

They'll have to come up with one of their ridiculous excuses for it, like the VAR was so focussed on the position of the initial foul he forgot to look if it continued into the area.

[Lee909]

We had a similar one vs Stoke the other year. They decided our player made contact on the line so it was a penalty. The manc defender is on the line of the box in replays so don't see how it's not a pen. Or at least any evidence to overturn. As I said at the time, the other way round and they would say its inconclusive so stay with onfield call

[an tha]

The laws seem to be that if it is holding and it starts outside area but continues without being broken into area it is pen but if not holding then it isn't.

 

This from The Athletic:

 

 

However, the contact was made outside the line of the penalty area with both players then landing inside the penalty area following the infringement.

 

The International Football Association Board’s (IFAB) laws of the game for the 2023-24 season for fouls and misconduct only state that infringements that take place outside the penalty area cannot be awarded as a penalty kick.

 

One aspect of the laws of the game says: “If a defender starts holding an attacker outside the penalty area and continues holding inside the penalty area, the referee must award a penalty kick.”

 

However, this was not applicable to the incident between Kambwala and Christie, as there was no ‘holding’ by the defensive player, with the only relevant contact for play to be stopped occurred outside the area.

 

[Moo]

2 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

We had a similar one vs Stoke the other year. They decided our player made contact on the line so it was a penalty. The manc defender is on the line of the box in replays so don't see how it's not a pen. Or at least any evidence to overturn. As I said at the time, the other way round and they would say its inconclusive so stay with onfield call

 

The initial contact was definitely outside the area and not on the line. The question was did the foul continue into the area and it absolutely did to the extent clear and obvious doesn't really come into it.  They will have to come up with a silly, implausible excuse again.

[Moo]

11 minutes ago, an tha said:

The laws seem to be that if it is holding and it starts outside area but continues without being broken into area it is pen but if not holding then it isn't.

 

This from The Athletic:

 

 

However, the contact was made outside the line of the penalty area with both players then landing inside the penalty area following the infringement.

 

The International Football Association Board’s (IFAB) laws of the game for the 2023-24 season for fouls and misconduct only state that infringements that take place outside the penalty area cannot be awarded as a penalty kick.

 

One aspect of the laws of the game says: “If a defender starts holding an attacker outside the penalty area and continues holding inside the penalty area, the referee must award a penalty kick.”

 

However, this was not applicable to the incident between Kambwala and Christie, as there was no ‘holding’ by the defensive player, with the only relevant contact for play to be stopped occurred outside the area.

 

 

Haha just making shit up. Both players landed in the penalty area eh? After the initial foul the Bournemouth player was dragged down and into the penalty area by the Man Utd player with very clear, two armed, holding across the torso that brought them both to the ground.

[Lee909]

5 minutes ago, Moo said:

 

The initial contact was definitely outside the area and not on the line. The question was did the foul continue into the area and it absolutely did to the extent clear and obvious doesn't really come into it.  They will have to come up with a silly, implausible excuse again.

 

The initial contact was

But when he was blocked off by the CB, the CB is on the line so any contact would be there and it looks like he is still getting held