Henry Winter 🤖Mar 21
Great attitude from Alex Scott. Omitted from England squad. Focuses, goes out and shows all his strengths in and out of possession for 90 mins for Bournemouth against Manchester United. Only 22, England opportunity will come again with mindset and ability like his. #BOUMUN
Henry Winter 🤖Mar 21

Decisions, decisions. Amad Diallo was a penalty. That gets given as a free-kick anywhere else on the pitch. It’s even more a penalty than the Matheus Cunha penalty (which was a pen, however “soft”). Amad was just less theatrical. Penalty not given. Wrong decision. Harry Maguire was a penalty and red card. DOGSO. Penalty and red card given. Correct decision. 

Understandable debate over the decisions and inevitable frustration for Manchester United. But United have benefited from decisions that go their way this season. All clubs have these issues, examples, frustrations. The main issue here is …

1) General standard of officiating in the Premier League. Amad decision was poor. Even more investment required in grass-roots refereeing, in fast-tracking talent, in training up academy graduates who don’t make it as pros, and in continued work to improve further the Select Group refs. PL has some good officials. Just need more.

2) Football belongs to fans, not officials. Fans deserve to know what is going on in real time. When decision/incident being discussed by officials, audio should be played live. The authorities don’t want to, feel it places too much pressure on officials so content themselves with brief explanation when announcing decision and clarification on PL Match Centre. Fans in the stadium and tuning in pay a lot for tickets and subscriptions, respectively, and shouldn’t be kept in the dark.

Audio works well in rugby union and cricket (and acknowledging those sports have more pauses in play). l went to a VAR demonstration (not PL) earlier this week given by an elite official. Hearing the audio between officials gave insight into the process - and respect for what they are dealing with at speed, especially with players trying to con them. 

You are never going to get complete consistency over decisions. There’s always going to be an element of subjectivity with so many incidents. But fans deserve more transparency and accountability. It might restore some trust. #BOUMUN

Premier League Match CentreMar 20
#BOUMUN – 78’ The referee’s call of penalty and red card for Maguire for the denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity (DOGSO) was checked and confirmed by VAR – with it deemed to be a holding offence with no attempt to challenge for the ball.
#EPL #MatchCentre #VAR #Football #PGMOL
Premier League Match CentreMar 20
#BOUMUN – 67’ The referee’s call of no penalty for a challenge by Truffert was checked and confirmed by VAR – with it deemed the contact was not sufficient for a foul.
#EPL #MatchCentre #VAR #Football #PGMOL
Show threadzimpenfishMar 20

(Of course, Attwell has form for this after giving an incorrect foul - noted as completely incorrect by the EPL incident panel - in January which denied United the win. Is he just incompetent again or is he taking some revenge after being called out by the panel as being incompetent? Either way, WTF PGMOL?)

#Football #SportsBall #EPL #BOUMUN

Show threadzimpenfishMar 20

I stand corrected - he’s decided to send Maguire off for an Evanilson dive after much less contact than on Cunha and not even a fraction of the wrestling and pushing that took Amad down.

You cannot watch this game and come to the conclusion that these are fair decisions made with a coherent understanding of the rules. It’s just corruption, plain and simple.

#Football #SportsBall #EPL #BOUMUN #PGMOL #Cheats

Ryan2one3Mar 20

Lol wow, exactly the same thing the Bournemouth player did against Ahmad and we get a red.

#MUFC #PremierLeague #BOUMUN #FediFC

Zbigniew 'Emill' Pławecki ♿️🎮Mar 20

Chyba pierwszy raz od dawna jestem swiadkiem, kiedy #sedziowanie w #PremierLeague zblizylo sie poziomem do #LaLiga

#BOUMUN #PilkaNozna #football

Premier League Match CentreMar 20
#BOUMUN – 59’ The referee’s call of penalty for a foul by Jiménez was checked and confirmed by VAR – with it deemed to be a clear pull on Cunha.
#EPL #MatchCentre #VAR #Football #PGMOL
Ryan2one3Mar 20

Pretty sure we need 4 more goals. We all know #Bournmouth scores lots against us.

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