Spurs Away thread

[BG1973]

It was bent. As arseholes.

[Tatterdemalion]

Personally I can accept that mistakes are sometimes made - it's the lack of transparency that is frustrating.

[Maxiedge]

This loss really reminds me of how Man City used to lose away to Spurs but then go on to win the league. It’s all about the response

[Mark79]

Jesus Christ, the incompetence

That would explain why the check was so quick.

Edit,- actually, **** that for an explanation. Surely the VAR could have clarified with the ref when he saw Spurs getting a free kick for offside instead of the goal being awarded?

[ame]https://twitter.com/dalejohnsonespn/status/1708230859416035463[/ame]

[Zapater]

Jesus Christ, the incompetence

That would explain why the check was so quick.

https://twitter.com/dalejohnsonespn/...30859416035463

If that's true, all it would take is telling the ref to award the goal before restarting considering they're miced up already. Apology, okay, what does that do? Game voided due to improper officiating?

[Buzzo]

**** me.

If that’s the truth then it really is ****ing amateur hour.

[Fivex]

It makes you wonder how many other mistakes there have been.

Made Gary Neville think the exact same

[frank the tank]

Why?

Because their league would be a ****in farce.....

[Exiled_red]

So my thoughts:

At what point did PGMOL know about the error?

The statement came out very quickly after the game. This implies that -
They must have been drafting that statement before the end of the game, which means that -
They must have known about the error before the game was over, which means that -
Given the implications of such an error, and given the game is still in play - why did they not do something about it when they became aware of the error?

You can't use the argument that the referee's decision is final - otherwise there'd be no need for an apology - nor VAR.

But more to the point - rather than suffer the circumstances - why not intervene? In which case any game becomes a **** show admittedly.

Still - there are a lot of questions to be answered here, which given the money increasingly involved are going to happen sooner or later.

They clearly knew there was a **** up during the game, how soon after the incident is unclear, but I am not sure what they can do about it once the match had restarted after the incident. They can't for instance say at HT we ****ed up 15 mins ago we are giving the goal retrospectively and the score is now 2-1 Liverpool. A fairer approach might be to say we will restart the game from that point and void everything that has happened maybe you could do that a minute or two later, but IMO even then that isn't right or going to happen.

[Mark79]

If that's true, all it would take is telling the ref to award the goal before restarting considering they're miced up already. Apology, okay, what does that do? Game voided due to improper officiating?

Yep. I really want to believe it was an honest error, however incompetent.

But you’re right, surely the VAR would have clarified when he saw the on field ref continuing without awarding the goal?

[Fivex]

**** me.

If that’s the truth then it really is ****ing amateur hour.

Makes it somehow worse than just being a snide

[spud_gun]

Couldn't the VAR room have been in touch with the official once they realised that they / the ref had made an obvious error and that the goal should have stood?

[Tatterdemalion]

Jesus Christ, the incompetence

That would explain why the check was so quick.

Edit,- actually, **** that for an explanation. Surely the VAR could have clarified with the ref when he saw Spurs getting a free kick for offside instead of the goal being awarded?

https://twitter.com/dalejohnsonespn/...30859416035463

Un-****ing-real incompetence in action.

[frank the tank]

The guy must have been genuinely asleep at the wheel afterwards as well....... As in a few mins later saw it was still nil all and was thinking "ehhhhhhh?"

What a ****in dope

[Irishnev]

It’s absolutely rotten this is, when you factor in all the other things it got wrong then it looks like sabotage…… is there any precedent in retrospective action on the game? Like play it again?