Harry Maguire on IG: “So soft but that’s where football is at atm and I should know better. You would think both decisions would reach the same outcome. We will be back after the break. Safe travel home reds , your support has been unbelievable ❤️”
by Baroninthehood
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Bruno was fuming. I don’t think there’s a single Man United fan that isn’t disgusted by this thievery today.
You can understand not thinking you’ll get get called for that when you’ve just seen an even more blatant push not given down the other end…
“clear and obvious” is deliberately left loose so VAR can serve as a subjective vehicle to create storylines, drama, and fuel headlines while lining the gambling sponsors’ pockets.
when is this gonna change, seriously? is it just gonna keep on happening week in week out, season in season out?
Don’t think it’s corruption, it’s just pure incompetence. Ref wanted to look like he wasn’t putting his finger on the scale, but to do so, he thought he had to pretend a foul wasn’t a foul and ended up with this controversy.
Either both are pens or neither are pens. And it’s not even a case of two different referees in two separate games. It’s the same bloody ref in a 10 minute timespan. It’s so inexcusable.
Poor penalty to give away but i forgive you harry
Both are fouls but theirs was called and punished with a red and ours wasn’t. Absolute disgrace. Proud of him anyway
He’ll end up getting fined for that.
Go get’em Harry. Glad that Carrick, the players and even some of the pundits are calling this out.
What got me is the certainty the ref had with Maguire’s challenge that it was a red card. Like, these refs blatantly hide behind VAR all season to take the presurre off even more clear cut decisions than this. VAR is a fucking farce on the game. I genuinely love the early rounds of the FA Cup where it’s not in play. At least then, human error will always be human error. Now all we have his human error backed by systemic error.
Good on Carrick and Harry to call this out. It’ll probably result in a fine but that’s all these PGMOL idiots are good at doing. They won’t actually ever fix the problem by correcting officials.
3 fouls exactly the same. 2 are called one isn’t. Same ref. Costs us 2 points. I would love to sit down with the ref and watch all 3 plays and have him explain the difference. The only way he can defend his position is to lie.
Staggering hypocrisy from the officials. I don’t know why I’m even surprised. Assuming Bruno converts, it should have been 2 nil.
Just gross incompetence robbing us of 3 points. It’s amazing how VAR and officiating have actually made things worse since its implementation imo.
This is just typical. And it negatively impacts so many games across the season. Someone needs to take the time and compile the amount of points changed by these incompetent/corrupt officials
Hard not to think there is a conspiracy against us when you have that ludicrous refereeing display.
Personally I think Maguire’s was a stonewall penalty and red
But Amad’s foul should’ve been a penalty, making it 3-1 and then does the same situation unfold? Probably not
> at atm
Rip in peace
More is see it, the less of a penalty it looks, grabs the guys arm and he throws himself
The worst part of the pen given on Harry is that Evanilson literally grabs his arm to help extend it before flopping like a fish. I have to give it to him, though, that dive was Oscar worthy
Mad how the inconsistency results in two goals against us. First show have been awarded to us and would have stopped the goal. If the first isn’t awarded, the second shouldn’t either. Don’t get me wrong, it was definitely a penalty against us, but the fact that we didn’t get one for the foul on Amad is insane if it’s to the same standard
The referee was swayed by the home crowd and didn’t give united a 2nd penalty because it would have looked like he favoured united
Can Manchester United not openly fight this, just to put pressure on the PGMOL.
VAR should have worked here, not help/ protect the ref.
The PGMOL needed a draw as the outcome. They got one. It’s all as corrupt as you think it is. Yet we will always give them our engagement, time and money
Time we got nasty again like the Fergie era, start calling out this bullshit in press conferences and complaints to the FA. So what if we get the odd fine, sick of us sliding into apathy and rolling over whilst people like Klopp, Pep, and Arteta manipulate better outcomes for their clubs by shouting louder.
I’m saying this out loud to make me feel better.. I think if the Amad one was given on field it would have stayed, and if Maguire one wasn’t given on field, I don’t think VAR would have overturned that either. Just one of those. We were unlucky not to score more their keeper had a blinder. Poor game from Mbuemo and Mainoo didn’t look up for it either.
Keyword is “soft”. One goes one way, the other should be the same.
They need to force the officials to do interviews and explain their decisions after matches.
They influence the game just like the players do, why do the players get microphones shoved in their faces and not the officials