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by Herts Clarets » Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:54 am
Watched it on TV so can't score. Didn't have a bad game but some of the really high scores are puzzling. Failed to give what i thought in normal time was a clear penalty. VAR reviewed it and didn't use the not so secret code "you got it wrong so go through the motions of looking at a screen then changing your mind" so they are equally as culpable. My comments at the time, if that is a Liverpool or Man Utd on the receiving end, that is a penalty all day long. Fast forwards 24 hours and hey presto, a United player is fouled in the box, less contact than the non penalty for the foul on Koleosho. Ref books Martial for diving, then VAR intervenes. No difference between the incidents other than the teams involved, one goes the way of Man Utd, as ever, one goes against us, again as ever.
It's the sheer inconsistency of decisions going for the big clubs and not smaller clubs, even with the "help" of countless replays, freeze frames and artificial lines on the pitch, they still can't get it right. Cost us 2 points at Forest courtesy of Jones and England and had they awarded the first penalty and then the second one, I don't see West Ham coming back from 2-0 down, despite our inability to defend a ball into the box.