2021-22 Emirates FA Cup

Obviously disallowed. Daft body check from Ramsey. No doubt the conspiracy theorists will think otherwise.

Or maybe not!

So much for Ragnick being some sort of tactical genius, Man Utd are just as clueless as they were under Ole.

Xenophobic media tried to make out Ronaldo was a problem to defend the British dross. He's been covering this team's deficiencies. Most of the defence needs to be binned along with McFred. Rangnick is another yes man like Solskjaer if he doesn't push for signings this window. He has to know by now most of this lot are well off it.

Lineker stating the law that meant the Villa goal was disallowed.

Another day it would have stood though.

United got away with one tonight. They didn't deserve the win. It'll paper over the cracks, though.

Paper over the cracks? I think every United fan, and I assume everyone at the club, is under no illusion about the current problems and the work that needs to be done.

Nice to adopt the foetal position early.

There are two main issues here with VAR.

One. This will happen about 10 times across the premier League games this weekend and will not have the same outcome each time. Inconsistency. This is the most frustrating part of VAR which I think is a great tool, just being (mis)managed by tools.

Two. Using VAR in a section of ties only at the same level of a tournament. Ridiculous.

That's a fair point, but back then it was a split second decision that was made, without recourse to having extra information to review. Could you blame a linesman for a close incorrect call - probably not? Now that issue should be resolved by VAR, and those lovely lines. Other decisions seem to be "subjective" i.e. Harry Kane not getting sent off when apparently everyone in the world expect the VAR person and the referee knew this was the decision. There the ones I thought VAR would resolve correctly.

I thought this for a while but I’m at the point now where I’d rather bin it.

I don’t think VAR in itself is bad, rather that it is run by people that are incapable of using it sensibly.

We’ll continue to see it waved away in so many of the cases that we want it used for, because they don’t want to overrule referees, and instead primarily used for tedious nothing incidents where applying it won’t end up being viewed as undermining the ref.

Yes, you see situations where you’re like ‘yes I’m glad VAR was there for that, it would have been missed otherwise’ but the situations where it should be used and isn’t, and applied where we don’t need to. IMO these outweigh the good we get from VAR unless we’re going to stop seeing referees being treated like infallible institutions.

Im referring to what they’ve been disallowing goals for from the outset. So many for nothing stuff that would never ever have been given by a referee pre-VAR. And not the kind of incidents that caused legitimate grievances by anyone.

They’ve completely bastardised the application of both the offside and handball rules from day 1. Ridiculously over refereeing through VAR. Then you look at some of the penalties or red cards that haven’t been given by VAR because of there being a really high bar for reversal, how do these things go hand in hand?

I don’t really see why you’d consider that to be the determining factor in the discussion, rather than simply addressing your opinion on the specific points I’d raised.

Absolutely don’t agree. They’ve a whole different set of interests to the spectator. I’m not saying their perspective is invalid or irrelevant but it is absolutely different.

Realistically, Shaw's hit on Konsa that busted him open is more of a foul than the Ramsey one. Shaw even looks over his shoulder at him before the contact is made so while I'm not saying its intentional, we can't say he doesn't know he is there either. And yet, this one falls under the super high bar. And it just makes such little sense.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI0hPBAXEAI7acS?format=jpg&name=medium

It wasn’t a foul, Michael Oliver saw it and told Cavani to get up. You will see 20 examples of it in the premier league this weekend. The only nuance here is Ramsay did it from an offside position.

I’d imagine I’m only gonna have to root about a page or 2 into your posting history to find you complaining about something not being good, that you ultimately don’t have any control over.

As opposed to the other things we complain about not liking, and yet still don’t have control over?

Plymouth gone 1 up against Chelsea.

Ten minutes to hold out. Mon the Harriers!

Kidderminster concede in the 91st minute :(

1-1 now.