I would tend to agree. it's seen sometimes as a yellow, more times as a red and I wouldn't see that as being appealable if the pgmol see this as a convenient means to cool everything off and hang the ref out to dry they might use it but I'd suspect they'll increase the ban as you say to back their incompetent
Not helping themselves by clearly trying to bullshit their way out of it. There wasn't enough time to check the lines; there was 40secs between the ball going in and the game restarting, there was 10secs between it saying 'VAR checking for offside' to 'check complete'. Something else happened imo and the only way we find out is if they release the audio. However, they've had plenty of time to create new audio now so that wouldn't convince conspiracy enthusiasts. Personally, I've moved on. It was bullshit, we got screwed and there is nothing we can do about that match now. Time to focus on the next game. Doesn't mean we have to just accept the shocking refereeing standards though (and not just for us), something needs to change there. I was moaning salt this long before the Spurs game.
While I wouldn't put anything past them, they won't be able to make a new recording or erase bits of the real recording because it has a digital footprint specific to the game.
I'm the only one with clean hands as I wasn't watching and thus had no influence on the game and couldn't send telepathic waves to make the players (and refs) perform better.
Can't see us looking for a replay or to be given points, seems to me this is about accountability and calling PGMOL out for just being plain ****. How many times do they have to issue they've made a mistake that changed the course of a game before something changes. If we'd reached the end of the season only had 1 or 2 'mistakes' then it could be forgiven, but the season is 7 games old (only another 300+ games to go) and there's already been 2 or 3 major ones, plus countless others. Also I didn't see an apology, just admission of guilt.
What I find interesting in this situation is that it seems to have pulled as lot of fans together, regardless of their alliance. Seen many opposition fans, Man Utd fans included, slating the officials over this. Not seen an Everton fan yet though
I still want to know what they were doing to not notice the linesman flagging offside and then not noticing the teams lining up for KO rather than for a FK in their half .
They were just being silly - you know, it's no big deal. Happens to everyone. We should all just forget about it and move on.
You're right. It's also galvanised our own fans, players and manager into having an even more powerful togetherness and never give up attitude. It's a real opportunity to bring about meaningful change for everyone, all teams not just us, make the system better and build more transparency with accountability built in.
in one way i agree with that with the proviso that they actually come clean as otherwise it just leads to easily justified conspiracy theories
