Johngannonsunderpants
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If that's a sign of things to come in the premiership I won't be sad if we don't get there.
2 absolutely woeful penalty decisions not overturned. What is the point.
The first makes no sense. As the defender is about to clear the ball, Johnson (who is behind the defender and makes no attempt to play the ball and is not in possession) lunges forward and gets his foot in between ball and player (he can't reach the ball). He subsequently blocks the ball being played and gets kicked. It's a free kick the other way not a penalty.
I get it in other circumstances when someone nips in and takes possession of the ball, but this was ridiculous.
The Southampton pen just wasn't one.
VAR is pointless. It's changed nothing. People saying "yeah but it gets some of them right" is nonsense. Refs get some of them right. It needs to change or it needs to go.
2 absolutely woeful penalty decisions not overturned. What is the point.
The first makes no sense. As the defender is about to clear the ball, Johnson (who is behind the defender and makes no attempt to play the ball and is not in possession) lunges forward and gets his foot in between ball and player (he can't reach the ball). He subsequently blocks the ball being played and gets kicked. It's a free kick the other way not a penalty.
I get it in other circumstances when someone nips in and takes possession of the ball, but this was ridiculous.
The Southampton pen just wasn't one.
VAR is pointless. It's changed nothing. People saying "yeah but it gets some of them right" is nonsense. Refs get some of them right. It needs to change or it needs to go.