Michael Oliver v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[LeonW]

Imagine if that VAR decision had gone for us; the meltdown it would cause. Goes the other way and it's 'nothing to see here folks' from the media.

[itmustbe_it is!]

Fucking robbed , again.
Its not even Utd that are cheating bastards, its the whole fucking system.
Shit decision but I wasn't even surprised. It's a bad joke.

I bet a million pounds Utd v Middlesboro is on TV, which is the outcome they wanted.

Hope we murder them next week. And I hope Kiddy win the cup.

[Stu]

Bit concerned that we've lost 3 on the bounce now and still have to overcome this lot again on the weekend. Playing well but just not taking enough of our chances.

[Villatillidie1982]

The BBC only wanted to talk about United. They don't care about any team outside the "big five" plus Tottenham.

[Ads]

Better side 1st half. Totally dominated 2nd half and fucked by VAR. ******.

Bring on Saturday, we will murder these twats.

[tomd2103]

 Still fuming.  We might not have gone on to win the game, but we were on top at that point and an equaliser would have given us a good chance.  Cavani wasn't going to get to that ball, so created a collision and dived.  They didn't look at that originally as the commentators could hear the conversation and it was looking at whether it was offside. 

Not the first time we have had a VAR decision go against us there when Oliver has been refereeing and it happens too often for it to be a coincidence.   It might not have been an edifying spectacle, but part of me wanted to see Steven Gerrard lighting Oliver up after the game and questioning the decision publicly, as I want us to stop just accepting this constant stream of decisions that go against us when we play these teams. 

As for us, I thought we were the better side for large parts and played some really good stuff at times, but we are constantly let down by the same few players giving the ball away far too often. 

On a wider point - I know it's bitten us tonight so it looks like sour grapes, but how can VAR be used in some games and not others in the same competition?  I would personally ditch it for the FA Cup and only consider using it for the semi-finals and final if at all.

[Stu]

Oh, and 65 years and counting.

[supertom]

I said to my mate in the pub earlier, I don't mind getting beaten as long as it's fair.

Fat chance.

Our record against Utd is atrocious, but how many games does it come back to this? Decisions that go their way, the refs on their side throughout? It took Oliver long enough to start booking them for their shithousery. It's beyond a joke now. At least one game a season against Utd there's something contentious against us.

[Stu]

Better side 1st half. Totally dominated 2nd half and fucked by VAR. ******.

Bring on Saturday, we will murder these twats.

Hope Gerrard has them spitting fire at the weekend. I want McGinn to McParland Fernandez.

[tomd2103]

The BBC only wanted to talk about United. They don't care about any team outside the "big five" plus Tottenham.

Remind where the BBC is based again?

[The Edge]

How we didn’t win I’ll never know, completely played them off the park.
We cannot play Ings and Ollie together though. Hate VAR, hate Manure, fancy us to really batter them on Saturday. Very poor Manure side.
I really don’t think we are far off being a very decent side.

Bang on.

[Villa Lew]

We lost to a joke of a decision, no question we were the better side, now lets give them a hammering on Saturday.

[PaulWinch again]

Oliver was poor but I think the VAR call is systemic as much as anything. Once the referee gets summoned over to the monitor there’s an expectation that the decision will change. The stats on that would be interesting.

Ultimately we need to be more efficient at taking our chances. Even with that decision we should have won that game.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Oh, and 65 years and counting.

This.I don't think I'm going to see number 8

[boutrosboutrosgnarly]

Anybody surprised? Entirely predictable, it's not a level playing field when you play certain clubs, the whole thing reeks of corruption and bias, now Gerrard has experienced the kind of shit we have to put up with against these and his former club to name but two.Shit aint it Steve? Fuck the FA & Premier league.
C@nts