14 Aug 2023 22:09:15
New season but same old VAR. That penalty decision at the end of the United game was one of the worst I've seen. Scandalous that the VAR don't intervene there.

1.) 14 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 22:19:58
Crazy decision that.

I’ve heard lots of pundits have Wolves to go down this season but they were by far the better team tonight.

2.) 14 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 22:28:25
Just saw that. The more you watch football the more it looks like something dodgy is going on.

So what that ref and VAR are saying is that you can just jump at someone in the box and clatter them without getting anywhere near the ball? I wonder whether they would’ve given a free kick if it was the defender jumping at the keeper? Of course they would.

Incompetent at best, but I’m pretty sure it’s corruption. Nobody can get that decision wrong unless it’s on purpose.

3.) 14 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 22:33:06
I just don’t understand football anymore guys. Decisions like that just make me sad.

I mean that was a foul. All day and every day. He’s nowhere near the ball and a mile late.

So what wasn’t clear and obvious?

4.) 14 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 22:38:19
If that’s the other way round, and a goal was scored, they’d rule it out. He gets nowhere near the ball and cleans the player out, it’s dangerous and should be a penalty.

5.) 14 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 22:38:28
Yep decisions like that do leave you a bit disillusioned even as a neutral. Does make me slightly more annoyed that of course it went United’s way but even if it was against us that is a stone wall penalty.

Whoever was on VAR should face disciplinary not that is does much good after 3 points lost. The cheek then to book the Wolves manager is outrageous. What’s worse is that VAR watched the replay about 10 times.

6.) 14 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 22:42:53
They didn’t intervene because it wasn’t ‘ clear and obvious’, now it’s clearly a foul and obviously the refs are incompetent so where’s the issue? Refs as usual allowed hide behind their decisions! You know 100% if that was Utd trailing it would have been overturned all day long, decisions like this are stacked against the smaller clubs it’s robbery in plain sight!

7.) 14 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 22:44:52
It beggers belief that decision. They really need to explain that one!

8.) 14 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 23:18:28
The ball was gone so I reckon that's why they left it alone. Wolves guy headed the ball and then Onana clattered into the other guy, basically took him out but off the ball or after the ball so Onana's foul didn't stop a chance so that's why I reckon they didn't overturn it.

9.) 15 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 23:43:49
Just watched Dermot in the post-match. says he thinks it's a pen, they (guys in studio) think it's a pen, but that doesn't mean the decision was a howler.

I don't quite understand how they make this so difficult.

10.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 00:38:27
No way! That was definitely a pen. Wolves were so unlucky, so many shots etc I think they played well. Let’s wait and see what gets said about the penalty not being given. (Probably nothing! )

11.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 01:23:56
Sean Ireland, since when did stopping a chance constitute a penalty? If you are facing away from goal and get fouled in the box it's a penalty. What do you define as a chance?

12.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 06:37:25
The official on VAR last night, Salisbury I believe, was the same guy on VAR that didn't give Brighton a penalty against Spurs in April - and was subsequently demoted.

THE SAME PERSON!

Make a mistake once, ok, but the same mistake again c'mon peeps, convince me that there is no corruption in football.

13.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 07:47:35
Wolves not getting a clear pen at old Trafford at the end of the game… shocker. Var didn’t intervene - shocker. Man U won because of it - shocker. Clearly the var man was a Utd fan no doubt.

14.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 07:49:45
That was a pen all day, everyday. How that wasn’t given, is beyond me. Oman’s missed the ball completed and punched the Wolves player right in the face. Utd as usual, got away with one with VAR, arguably just as Chelsea did with the Jackson handball incident at the Shed.

VAR is getting worse but that we already knew. Seven Hag has dient over 400m and counting in one year, and is still getting his arse handed to him by the tactical guru named Gary O’Neil. Great time to be a Utd fan.

15.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 08:25:01
@Rigsby, if it had been before the ball was headed away then I think that would have been deemed as stopping a chance and given. The ball was already headed away so it's more like the Spurs keeper who took out Schade after he shot wide and that also wasn't given. Before the shot/ header would be having a chance to score, after you have already missed isn't - that's what I mean and that's why I didn't think they gave it.

16.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 08:35:20
The wolves player gets the ball then gets cleaned out afterwards…. it would 100% be a foul if it happened in the middle of the pitch, and so should be 100% be a foul in the box. The keeper has no more right to clatter into people after the ball has gone than anyone else.

17.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 09:30:38
So we are now saying that tackling a player after the ball has gone is ok? Whoops, sorry I broke your leg there mate but you had passed the ball after all.

18.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 09:44:01
Spot on, SGred. If the keeper misses the ball completely and punches the player then, is is as good as an outfield player missing the ball completely, gets the man and a foul is awarded. In this case, a foul is awarded in the box when Onana misses the ball and clatters into the player’s head hence, penalty. It’s that simple.

19.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 10:56:50
As blatant a penalty as you will ever see yet not given - I would seriously love if we make the guy in charge of VAR come out and explain why he thought it wasn't when it looked nailed on to every other person watching the same replays

They have a big thing out now about managers and player reactions and attitudes towards officials - wouldn't the logical step be to fix the issues that are causing these reactions?

I mean every weekend last season there was at least one incident where the decision given could only be rated using a wtf scale - surely sorting the idiotic decisions would reduce the reactions from players and staff?

20.) 15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 11:38:11
Bill, it is arrogance and incompetence all rolled in one. These people possess a level of incompetence that is only matched by their level of arrogance. I mean, look at the way they carry themselves on the pitch as if they are the world's gift to football.