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Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #825 on: February 01, 2026, 07:09:52 PM »
Its the inconsistency  that pisses me off. I gurantee if thats manure  city or arsenal that never gets disallowed

Its just very infuriating

Offline Halfway to Moseley

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #826 on: February 01, 2026, 07:13:07 PM »
Its the inconsistency  that pisses me off. I gurantee if thats manure  city or arsenal that never gets disallowed

Its just very infuriating

Not only that but there wouldnt even be any controversy in the goal being allowed - VAR wouldn’t even check it for being too far back/in a different phase of play

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #827 on: February 01, 2026, 07:18:51 PM »
Its the inconsistency  that pisses me off. I gurantee if thats manure  city or arsenal that never gets disallowed

Its just very infuriating

Not only that but there wouldnt even be any controversy in the goal being allowed - VAR wouldn’t even check it for being too far back/in a different phase of play

Agree wholeheartedly  mate. I wouldn't mind if this was the case. I mean it also infuriates  me when you have rogers perfect goal last season and they deny the goal on a stupid technicality. If your saying the balls gone off for a throw you even blow dont look back at something  that happened a minute earlier. Why is var getting involved for throw ons anyway?

Its really killing the game gettjng involved in everything

Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #828 on: February 01, 2026, 07:22:01 PM »
One of the issues with VAR is that you give somebody a job to do so they are itching to be involved even when there is no need.

And clear and obvious is not something that takes 4 minutes. Clear and obvious is a 5 second thing.


Offline aj2k77

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #829 on: February 01, 2026, 07:51:39 PM »
19 seconds is the longest VAR has ever gone back to disallow a goal apparently. An attack that started the opposite end of the pitch too. Another terrible decision.

Offline London Villan

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #830 on: February 01, 2026, 07:54:42 PM »
From a couple of years ago, but showing why it isn’t obviously out…




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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #831 on: February 01, 2026, 08:11:23 PM »
19 seconds is the longest VAR has ever gone back to disallow a goal apparently. An attack that started the opposite end of the pitch too. Another terrible decision.

Well I never.....

Offline London Villan

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #832 on: February 01, 2026, 08:13:07 PM »
Wonder when we’ll get the apology?

Offline Halfway to Moseley

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #833 on: February 01, 2026, 08:17:10 PM »
That’s three games we’ve lost that have hinged on poor refereeing decisions, including Everton and Arsenal.

It’d be easier to take if decisions were going both ways and we were benefiting too - you win some, you lose some.

We just lose some.


Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #834 on: February 01, 2026, 08:26:42 PM »
19 seconds is the longest VAR has ever gone back to disallow a goal apparently. An attack that started the opposite end of the pitch too. Another terrible decision.

What  was ours today?

Offline Goldenballs

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #835 on: February 01, 2026, 08:27:28 PM »
19 seconds is the longest VAR has ever gone back to disallow a goal apparently. An attack that started the opposite end of the pitch too. Another terrible decision.

What  was ours today?

I thinks that is ours from today.

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #836 on: February 01, 2026, 08:33:51 PM »
19 seconds is the longest VAR has ever gone back to disallow a goal apparently. An attack that started the opposite end of the pitch too. Another terrible decision.

What  was ours today?

Ah ok thanks. I wonder what the previous  record was

I thinks that is ours from today.

Offline BoVillan esq

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #837 on: February 01, 2026, 08:37:38 PM »
Horrendous, just how far can you go back with a delayed decision, you have to look at the principle of that decision if you can go back to when the ball was in there half seconds/minutes earlier, where do you stop.

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #838 on: February 01, 2026, 08:47:11 PM »
That was a ridiculous incident today. I do think the ball was out, but that was a mistake which could happen anytime, similar to when a team scores from a corner which shouldn’t have been. I can’t quite understand how they will explain their way out of this one.

Offline aj2k77

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #839 on: February 01, 2026, 08:48:05 PM »
It will be another apology at best.

 


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