Standard of Refereeing

[LeonW]

I just watched the ref cam video from the Man Utd spurs game where the centre half gets send off.   It strikes home how insanely fast the game is at pitch level.  They’ve got a really hard job.

It is but they aren’t doing it equally badly for all.

[Rigadon]

I just watched the ref cam video from the Man Utd spurs game where the centre half gets send off.   It strikes home how insanely fast the game is at pitch level.  They’ve got a really hard job.

It is but they aren’t doing it equally badly for all.

Agree it feels like that this season. 

[Toronto Villa]

I know we have had some really bad decisions go against us but good grief today we had almost the luck and still got battered. The standard of refereeing without VAR was astonishingly bad.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

VAR had a great night.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The standard of refereeing with VAR is astonishingly bad. Today was beyond ridiculous which was only matched by our performance.

[VancouverLion]

They don’t know how to ref anymore, I mean, not like they did before but now without their pals to help out it’s a joke, it was hilarious to watch just how bad it was today.

[Somniloquism]

A ref shouldn't be relying on VAR to work out if a player was a yard inside the area or not. The lino was also on that side and didn't correct him. I do wonder if he would have been as fast to blow and award a pen for it IF he thought it was inside the box though.

[LeonW]

We massively got the rub of the green tonight. Wasted 3 big decisions go in our favour.

[Nev]

That daft ****** Murphy saying that tonight is why we need VAR.

That's right Danny, so instead of getting it wrong once, they get it wrong twice and make everyone wait 5 minutes while they do it. Or make up some spurious rule that no one has ever heard of to justify their fuck up.

Just what we need.

[brontebilly]

That daft ****** Murphy saying that tonight is why we need VAR.

That's right Danny, so instead of getting it wrong once, they get it wrong twice and make everyone wait 5 minutes while they do it. Or make up some spurious rule that no one has ever heard of to justify their fuck up.

Just what we need.

There really isn't an argument against VAR after tonight. Aside from the main refereeing errors, offside was a complete lottery tonight. That's key to our defensive shape. Referee shouldnt have got both Digne decisions wrong, VAR or not.

[Toronto Villa]

Murphy has entirely missed the point. Not for the first time. I don’t think fans oppose VAR outright. It’s how it’s implemented. If it was quick review that corrected clear and obvious errors then we’d all get on with it. Today we had some glaring errors that went in our favour that VAR would and should have corrected. But it’s the ones they decide to involve themselves in that take 5 minutes to rule on that clearly aren’t clear and obvious errors that we are all colossally tired with. Danny Murphy is a fucking bell end. That’s clear and obvious.

[luke95]

Those decisions today were so bad it's as if they were purposely made bad to secure the future inclusion of VAR

[Steve67]

I agree with others, you don't need VAR to work out that Danny Murphy is a clear and obvious twunt.

[PeterWithe]

I don't think I would have found it quite so funny if all of those appalling decisions by the ref went the way they should have. Shame really as I would have loved to have beaten Newcastle with so many injustices.

[LeeB]

That daft ****** Murphy saying that tonight is why we need VAR.

That's right Danny, so instead of getting it wrong once, they get it wrong twice and make everyone wait 5 minutes while they do it. Or make up some spurious rule that no one has ever heard of to justify their fuck up.

Just what we need.

There really isn't an argument against VAR after tonight. Aside from the main refereeing errors, offside was a complete lottery tonight. That's key to our defensive shape. Referee shouldnt have got both Digne decisions wrong, VAR or not.

There is an argument, the same one that had football just fine for one hundred odd years before it turned up.

If anything last night underlined the damage VAR is doing to the abilities of referees, much like AI it's breeding brainless morons