Crystal Palace v Aston Villa post match thread

[phantom limb]

Corruption.

[Monty]

You can make all the excuses you want about Spurs and Bournemouth and this, but in all honesty we have a habit of losing and we look like relegation right now.

[CJ]

We were pretty pants and on the balance of play Palace deserved to win. But the delight Kevin Friend takes in booking/sending off our players and the clear bias he showed throughout the game is just outrageous. I bet he came in his dry stock when he disallowed that goal. Did it go to VAR?

[richtheholtender]

Ref was poor but Deano needs to have a serious word with them all about not going to ground so easily. We need to be stronger on the ball.

[Exeter 77]

I though VAR was supposed to correct decisions like the disallowed goal. If it doesn't what is the point of having it? But then it is administered by the same idiots who think Kevin Friend is elite referee.

[exiled on the wirral!]

That was very poor. The tactical by DS approach was wrong. Our players were naive and our performance was littered with stupid careless errors. I believe we are much better than this but we certainly didn’t show it at all today.

We are going to be exposed at LB as long as we are relying on Neil Fucking Taylor at PL level. The ref was poor but this wasn’t on him. We have to get better and quickly otherwise we will sucked into that bottom tier all season. And it’s like quicksand.

Really disappointing

It really was on him...he has cost us a point.

[VillaBoy_23]

I’ve been to watch the villa live for 30 years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a refereeing performance as inept as that

[hilts_coolerking]

Ludicrous refereeing but we were pisspoor too.

[Toronto Villa]

I’ve watched that incident again a few times. Jack gets caught by Zaha and then as he’s falling by Cahill. At worst it’s a free kick on the edge of the box. So if there was a good ref today he plays the advantage and Lansbury scores. Not that we deserved it but the game should have ended 1-1.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Grealish didn't appeal for a foul, so how was it a dive?

He was quick up on his feet immediately after. Friend is an absolute tosser. Way out of his depth.

[richtheholtender]

On the goal, two defenders and neither sends him towards the corner.

[CT Villan]

I hope Friend's next shit is a hedgehog...that was one of the most inept performances I have ever seen especially considering these should be the best refs in England.

We were not at our best but a draw would have been right.

[LeeB]

From the Guardian live feed:

" 16:57

Villa have had a 96th-minute goal disallowed!
Grealish is tripped on the edge of the area, the play goes on and Villa score but Kevin Friend blows his whistle! He says that Grealish dived (he clearly did not), and blows for a Palace free-kick! Villa will go mad! And they have every right to go mad! (Very Barry Davies voice)."

[itbrvilla]

You can make all the excuses you want about Spurs and Bournemouth and this, but in all honesty we have a habit of losing and we look like relegation right now.

That's the way I see it. We've offered very little when it matters in the 3 games we've lost. Bournemouth we're 2 up. They didn't give a shit about is dominating possession. Why would they.

[hilts_coolerking]

Corruption.

Oh for fuck's sake.  He's shit, we all know he's shit, he's always been shit, but that's all he is.