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BrunelGooner said:
Normally I would agree, but I am sure managers have been punished for saying the referees have had a 'shocker' or a 'mare', which I feel they should be entitled to say, especially if it's true. There seems to be very little accountability.

But if you're also suggesting the issues come from much higher up, who aren't/haven't done enough to make necessary changes, I do agree with that.
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Have managers been punished for saying that a ref's had a bad game? I can only remember examples of them claiming dishonesty or bias.

Officials have been told to "manage the spectacle". It's not about running the game and making the right choices any more.
 
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I still don't understand why United gave OGS the contract when they did. What was the rush? At least give him a bit more time to prove what he could do. Assuming the result stays the same, this would be his 6th loss in the last 8 games since signing permanently. They had nothing to lose by waiting until the end of the season.
 
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BrunelGooner said:
VAR will help to a degree, but it won't be the silver bullet that everyone hopes.
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Who said it would be ??

Statistically the number of game-changing decisions per game
that cannot be seen/decided in real time by COMPETENT match
officials should be very low. Therefore VAR will infrequently be
called upon.

Midweek proved it (only two such incidents occurred) .
Officials that use it willy-nilly are IMHO incompetent, and therefore
should not be on the pitch.
 
BrunelGooner said:
I still don't understand why United gave OGS the contract when they did. What was the rush? At least give him a bit more time to prove what he could do. Assuming the result stays the same, this would be his 6th loss in the last 8 games since signing permanently. They had nothing to lose by waiting until the end of the season.
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If only for financial reasons (apparently have Man Utd have some
sponsors whose T+Cs define the level of annual funding is
dependent on things like CL qualification) .
 
Wonderful strike from Digne.

United got battered by Barcelona and now an ex-Barca player scores to effectively kill the game off. The spirt of Catalonia lives on, haunting United.
 
BrunelGooner said:
I still don't understand why United gave OGS the contract when they did. What was the rush? At least give him a bit more time to prove what he could do. Assuming the result stays the same, this would be his 6th loss in the last 8 games since signing permanently. They had nothing to lose by waiting until the end of the season.
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I love it when the pundits are utterly and completely wrong. They were all saying that OGS should have had the permanent job long before he actually did, and when he got it all agreed that it was the right thing to do. It would be nice to see pundits with different opinions on occasion!

It's a shame when we played them the ref was in the "we've got our United back" mode in, for example, not sending off Pogba. Utd have been lucky in quite a few of the games they won, even during OGSs golden patch.
 
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Draw with Liverpool, beat Chelsea and Arsenal, then batter Man Utd. Lose to Fulham and Newcastle. <confused>
 
First shot on target in the 86th minute in a fixture where we scored six? Shockingly poor.
 
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