The Premier League Thread

Infuriates me when the ref stops a game for a non head injury. Don't know why its become a thing.

 

Restarts seem to be taking much longer too. Players not leaving the field in a timely manner to continue to receive treatment seems to be a main reason. But it's not just that - eg the other day (against Spurs I think?), the referee TWICE seemed to allow the opposition time to do up their shoe laces!

Soucek took an age to walk off today to get patched up - I presume he was bleeding. But the referee bottled giving him a second yellow.

 

Yeah and then stopped two yards from the line the knobber.

 

I am watching the Liverpool game, they need a time clock on VAR. It's bloody ridiculous

 

6 years and it's still utter dogshit

 

100% Tbh I’m really struggling with that side of the game nowadays. It’s at a ridiculous level & much worse than Championship. Agree with this & previous comments & I don’t understand why PGMOL don’t sort, as it’s so easy. Laces; tell the players if it happens, they will not stop the game. I’m 100% convinced, managers would make every single player ****ing double knot so they wouldn’t lose a player for 2-3 mins.

 

Why do I have to tell them!?

 

I did wonder if you’d pick me up in that!

 

Brentford keeper off injured - we're playing them next Saturday.

 

Flek off?

 

The Premier league table does give me satisfaction seeing teams like Brentford and Brighton above spuds and Man U.

Even more so Fulham, Bournemouth and Forest competing right up with the top 4.

I feel sad however that we have fallen so far below the also rans.

Not impossible to get back there in the next couple of years. We will just need to be patient and trust lessons are learnt and the really poor decision making of the past will not be repeated.

 

Ipswich are bloody terrible. If it wasn't for our suicidal play, surely they would be bottom?

 

The VAR must be a sleep! How can Ipswich get away with the pulling and grabbing in the box, is beyond me

 

Another poor home result for Brighton.

Ridiculous Pedro wasn't sent off too. Can't wait to see how that one's justified.

 

Right up there as one of the worst decisions I've seen. It's quite clearly excessive force. I don't know what the referee was looking at?

 

For VAR to not give it is beyond absurd. Absolutely no doubt that it's a deliberate elbow.

The fact he didn't make contact is irrelevant.

 

100% agreed. It's even written in the laws of the game "strike or attempt to strike an opponent".

 

Yep this is the wording on violent conduct from the FA website. No idea how VAR can get that so wrong.

Violent conduct is when a player uses or attempts to use excessive force or brutality against an opponent when not challenging for the ball, or against a team-mate, team official, match official, spectator or any other person, regardless of whether contact is made.

 

It depends what the referee saw.

The bizarre nature of how they've decided to implement VAR means that there is little the VAR can do if the referee has seen everything.

If the referee somehow missed the elbow swing, then I'd go as far as to say it's a disgrace for the VAR to not recommend an onfield review. But my guess is that the referee saw everything clearly, and somehow came to the conclusion that it wasn't violent conduct. In which case, hopefully the PGMOL stand him down next game.