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Offline curiousorange

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13305 on: March 07, 2026, 07:51:10 PM »
It was a red which became a red after Chelsea played their face. I hate the behaviour but sometimes I wish Villa were more like it because we'd get far more of those subjective calls.

Offline Skipper_The_Eyechild

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13306 on: March 07, 2026, 07:52:01 PM »
Nah, VAR would have looked at that regardless of what the players did.

Offline Ads

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13307 on: March 07, 2026, 07:53:08 PM »
Not a red for me. Proper modern VAR red card. Cynical foul, yes, dangerous? Nah.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13308 on: March 07, 2026, 07:56:18 PM »
Are replays still a thing in the FA Cup?

Only in the qualifiers.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13309 on: March 07, 2026, 07:57:03 PM »
I doubt if it had been the other way around VAR would have insisted on the ref going to the monitor. I'm instinctively opposed to coach challenges or whatever, but I do think we have to force VAR reviews into being looked at equally regardless of status, and that seems the only way to do it.

Online Crown Hill

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13310 on: March 07, 2026, 07:58:00 PM »
Yellow for me. VAR at its worst re-reffing the game.

And the red has now ruined the spectacle!

Offline Skipper_The_Eyechild

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13311 on: March 07, 2026, 07:59:17 PM »
Well I just don't agree. It seemed like an obvious sort of challenge that VAR would look into. We'd be fuming if someone went in on Kamara like that.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13312 on: March 07, 2026, 07:59:20 PM »
99% of the time that's red after a var check.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13313 on: March 07, 2026, 08:00:16 PM »
I can just imagine Romero on Youri and people on here sayimg it was only a yellow.

Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13314 on: March 07, 2026, 08:01:10 PM »
Fuck sake. Oh well

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13315 on: March 07, 2026, 08:01:37 PM »
I thought he had hit the post, unfortunately not.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13316 on: March 07, 2026, 08:01:55 PM »
Orange. 10 minutes in the sin bin, as in rugby union. There are so many different levels of red.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13317 on: March 07, 2026, 08:01:57 PM »
Tidy finish, such an odious club though.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13318 on: March 07, 2026, 08:01:58 PM »
I doubt if it had been the other way around VAR would have insisted on the ref going to the monitor.

I think that would have been a straight red in a PL game. It was only the 'magic of the Cup' that led to the ref initially giving him a yellow.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #13319 on: March 07, 2026, 08:02:10 PM »
I am not sure who's the biggest donkey in PL, Delap or Woltemade?

I like Woltemade. I think he’ll be a great player.

They’re both good players who would improve us greatly.

 


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