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What Has Been The Worst Reffing/VAR Decision This Season?

SissokoWasGood (BoL) said:
Agreed. I was never so anti VAR as others, but I think its application now has been shambolic. Scrap it if you can’t use it right.

Although it’s not even VAR that’s our issue this season really. It’s simply human beings not treating us fairly or consistently.
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But VAR is applied by humans. Honestly think AI would do a better job of applying the technology if we’re looking for consistency.

“Clear and obvious” has been completely lost in the details. We need more ex-players and less lawyers involved.
 
I was all for VAR, I thought it would be the end of dodgy decisions etc, but as said above it is absolutely the worst thing that has happened to football. It was supposedly brought in to get rid of "clear and obvious " errors from the officials. Pedro Mendes comes to mind when 70000 people in the stadium and millions watching on tv can see the ball has crossed the line, not by a couple of millimeters but was actually inches from hitting the back of the net, yet the ref and linesman don`t. Even worse is that its not a few instances in a season but literally every game there is some glaring decision that beggars belief. Every clubs supporters can tell you a story of terrible decisions in almost every game. Whether is is for your club or against it there are many shocking examples of incompetecy. A Liverpool supporter I work with will forever go on about the Luis Diaz goal disallowed for offside. I was at the game and sitting more or less level when he ran through and scored. VAR is checking, and everyone around us were saying this is going to be given, they wont need to draw any lines with the computer he was onside by at least a yard. Offside decision stands and us Spurs supporters are laughing our heads off. And having said that drawing lines and seeing the attackers elbow has made him offside. Clear and obvious what a load of cobblers.

And while I am having a moan why change the rules constantly? When the ball hits a defenders arm who on here can say if a penalty will or will not be given. As said before the inconsistencies are so bad. Player gets fouled nothing given team goes up the other end player get fouled free kick given and player booked. Two nearly identical passages of play two very different outcomes. I`ve lost count of the games this season where an opposition player consistently fouls our player in the first 15 minutes the first time one of ours makes a slightly late tackle its a booking.

As if we haven`t got enough to moan about this season. Anyway until we are mathematically down I am going to keep on believing we have enough in our locker to save us
COYS!
 
We've been brick, but we also get screwed over time after time in every game. Last game no exception. In fact it's one of the most biased against us I've seen in a long time. Yes we are bad, but there's obviously some high powers working against us. There's no other explanation for this kind of reffing against us.
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Kandi1977 said:
We've been brick, but we also get screwed over time after time in every game. Last game no exception. In fact it's one of the most biased against us I've seen in a long time. Yes we are bad, but there's obviously some high powers working against us. There's no other explanation for this kind of reffing against us.
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Commentators need to be investigated for corruption too! Fuxking clams! Every awful Sunderland challenge is "unfortunate" or "accidental". Every Spurs nothing challenge is "ill disciplined" and "reckless".
 
No mention of the outstretched West Ham arm that punched the ball away from Gallagher inside their box without consequence? That's a decisive one for me. A goal from that blatantly overlooked penalty, and we could've feasibly beaten West Ham instead of losing.

Incredible that "professional" referees could watch that handball in slomo for a few minutes and not conclude it was a penalty.
 
Robbo said:
No mention of the outstretched West Ham arm that punched the ball away from Gallagher inside their box without consequence? That's a decisive one for me. A goal from that blatantly overlooked penalty, and we could've feasibly beaten West Ham instead of losing.

Incredible that "professional" referees could watch that handball in slomo for a few minutes and not conclude it was a penalty.
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really good shout, blatant penalty

then at the end their winner came from an assault on Vic during a corner
 
Kandi1977 said:
We've been brick, but we also get screwed over time after time in every game. Last game no exception. In fact it's one of the most biased against us I've seen in a long time. Yes we are bad, but there's obviously some high powers working against us. There's no other explanation for this kind of reffing against us.
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Brobbey really should have been off, he's not booked for either of the similar challenges that Romero and vvd are booked for.
 
glasgowspur said:
Brobbey really should have been off, he's not booked for either of the similar challenges that Romero and vvd are booked for.
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How he doesn't get a yellow for taking out Romero is just incredibly poor refereeing. Nowhere near the ball, just flattens him.

It's situations like this that underlines how ridiculous it is that VAR can't intervene when yellow card offenses are overlooked. A yellow for Brobbey there, changes the game in our favour. It would've meant he had to cool down, or that he would've been sent off.
 
For me this, this season has been an amalgamation of horrendous occurrences - the abysmally run club, the poor management of the first team, the plague of injuries and the role of the officials. I think that we could have coped with any 3 of them and not got relegated (admittedly the first two are somewhat related, so maybe there’s only three main factors and we could cope with 2). In that respect, I think that the truly appalling decisions dished out to us have made our fall to the Championship inevitable. They’ve certainly cost us points: the VAR refusal to give us a pen against Wham with the score at 1-1 (I have no doubt we’d have gone on to win that game… six point swing), the pen for Saudi Sportswashing Machine, the Ekitike goal (had it been disallowed, no Romero card for arguing - also a travesty - which means no Romero red later on…), Brobbey getting away with so much on Sunday. I think that’s at least 6 points right there, straight off the top of my head.

To answer the original question though…

The most obviously corrupt single decision was the pen at Saudi Sportswashing Machine.

The most damaging was the no pen against Wham.
 
Robbo said:
How he doesn't get a yellow for taking out Romero is just incredibly poor refereeing. Nowhere near the ball, just flattens him.

It's situations like this that underlines how ridiculous it is that VAR can't intervene when yellow card offenses are overlooked. A yellow for Brobbey there, changes the game in our favour. It would've meant he had to cool down, or that he would've been sent off.
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You could almost watch that game and say that the tackle on Romero is the bar set for fouls on us and the tackle by Romero is bar for tackles by us.
 
thfcsteff said:
Indeed!
Matches up with the ludicrous Sky nonsense I just saw where Dermott Gallagher and some gooner halfwit jobsworth Bothryod or ewhatever were both saying of the Brobby incident that 'if the keeper hadn't been there then it's nothing'...so by that metric, from now on, I am expecting any two handed shove to be acceptable. Nonsense isn't the right word is it...
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It's quite simply. Is being pushed with 2 hands a foul or not? Apparently that rule changes when we play. It's allowed when others do it. But when it's us it's not
 
Mikey10 said:
I can’t get animated by any of it tbh, as our performances have been so poor over such a long period that a few refereeing decisions are really neither here nor there. And I’m sure fans of every team could compile a list of unfair decisions from the season.

The Extra Inch had a good section on it yesterday; how we are all fixating on refereeing decisions because we have nothing else positive to fixate on. No great performances, no star player doing exciting things, few goals or goalmouth incidents, no forward momentum.

(That said, I’d also go with the Muani disallowed goal. 😀)
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Agreed. But even neutral fans could tell the ref on Sunday was giving us naff all.
And when people who don't even care can tell the injustices then that's something
 
Robbo said:
How he doesn't get a yellow for taking out Romero is just incredibly poor refereeing. Nowhere near the ball, just flattens him.

It's situations like this that underlines how ridiculous it is that VAR can't intervene when yellow card offenses are overlooked. A yellow for Brobbey there, changes the game in our favour. It would've meant he had to cool down, or that he would've been sent off.
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Question asked and answered. It's not even about doing us a favour. Just do what the law says....and each week refs will do the opposite
 
Kandi1977 said:
We've been brick, but we also get screwed over time after time in every game. Last game no exception. In fact it's one of the most biased against us I've seen in a long time. Yes we are bad, but there's obviously some high powers working against us. There's no other explanation for this kind of reffing against us.
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An absolute disgrace.
 
thfcsteff said:
An absolute disgrace.
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And we still dont kick up enough of a fuss.
We really dont have the mentality to be what it takes to be fighters and having a winning mindset consistently.

We are where we are because of yrs of neglect. The losing mindset began last season in the league and thats a hard thing to reverse. I still think if we managed just 2 more wins or finished 14th. Ange may have stayed. But old news. He still would have been sacked cos thats what we do.

what Jose said was not wrong
 
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