07 Apr 2024 15:44:35
First of all, am I right in thinking that you can't be offside from a corner?
If a player passes the ball from the byline and a player scores direct from the cross it can't be offside.
You can see that pablo is still standing in the corner spot so every wolves player has to be onside?

1.) 07 Apr 2024
07 Apr 2024 16:23:51
That was my initial thought exactly legornal and it's true, but as soon as the ball comes forward again players can be offside, ie if chinwa had recieved it from kilmans header he'd have been offside. But he didn't the ball was planted straight in the net. The next question is did our player obscure or block their keeper from making a save, the answer no on both accounts. So a perfectly good goal is rubbed out by the suggestion of VAR to an influenced ref who by making the decision shows he as no place in the premiership. No one in the ground seemed to doubt it being a legit goal, so why did someone outside and remote look for reasons to disallow it? As I've said before a letter of apology is no compensation for the points or table position we end up with. VAR isn't correcting obvious mistakes, they're applying judgements that are spurious. Its time to scrap the present system .

2.) 07 Apr 2024
07 Apr 2024 16:30:43
There is a definite whiff hanging over VAR, aided and abetted by the intent of the FA and how the PL is managed. FFP is a joke. It seems that a rich club with a battery of lawyers to defend an array of charges can delay justice, whereas smaller clubs with lesser charges get instant justice by comparison. Simply the FA's overriding management style is to preserve the status quo to ensure maximum TV rights cash, and full stadiums at the big venues to ensure the successful clubs cash flow to keep the circle flowing. Seems they would hate a newly promoted club to win the PL, was the last club to get promoted and win the top division Notts Forest and Clough? What chance of that now. Money is concentrated to prevent that. Clubs are effectively barred from taking on the top 6 by FFP. FFP was supposed to protect small clubs, try asking Bury how that worked. Now clubs who secure a wealthy owner with hope of taking on the fat cats who did exactly that and thereby secured a massive revenue, can not do the same. It is a protection racket, a scheme to impose a monopoly of success. VAR and how it is implemented with regular rule changes to suit it, is a part of this grand scheme. Corruption? I didn't say that, but plenty do.

3.) 07 Apr 2024
07 Apr 2024 17:14:45
Maybe incompetence more than corruption, if the bigger clubs get a higher percentage of matches that are officiated by better officials maybe the decision making is better.

4.) 07 Apr 2024
07 Apr 2024 19:44:16
That is very possible Arddunby. But when poor decisions are made how often is the less 'fashionable' club the loser.

5.) 08 Apr 2024
08 Apr 2024 09:52:05
Wimborne, it sometimes appears that way but unless a full range of data is used to analyse outcomes, (including betting patterns) then its difficult to say.

For corruption to be present, and I'm not saying it isn't, I would think many people would be in the know, that in itself is conspiracy That then becomes harder to cover up, as there's also money in it by revealing an exclusive to the media.

If an agenda exists against certain teams my guess is its individual officials with an axe to grind against a certain club for one reason or another, but once again I'm speculating.

6.) 08 Apr 2024
08 Apr 2024 16:49:04
We can only speculate Arddunby, but I see Everton only get 2 point deduction for a second offence, and the rumour is that the FA is thinking of dropping points deduction as a future penalty. Could it possibly be that the FA is now concerned over the precedent that may well impact on 2 teams in the select set, one who is charged and the other under scrutiny. If there was a conspiracy then it would not be against a large number of lesser teams, but a positive bias in favour of a small select few. I will speculate further and suggest that we will not have to wait too long before the European League resurfaces possibly in an American style closed shop. Then all we have witnessed in the PL to date becomes clear. Just speculation though.

7.) 08 Apr 2024
08 Apr 2024 17:52:40
European league with no relegation format is almost a racing certainty at some point I would have thought.