Given the abject second half performance from Wolves and their own miserable struggles to date I don’t begrudge Sheffield Utd a first win of the season.
But the nature of their victory, following another baffling VAR howler is harder to swallow.
For the second game running a player is already half way to the ground before anyone even touches him and yet the referee can’t wait to point to the spot.
Today it was even easier to see the mistake because the guy who went down immediately got up and tried to carry on playing because he realised he hadn’t been tackled in the first place.
But by then the penalty was already given and in the hands of the television gods where surely common sense would prevail?
Not a chance.
Even though it was clear and obvious to everyone else they didn’t dare suggest the referee might even consider a second look.
In the years to come they’ll eventually realise this isn’t the way to use video technology and instances like this will be consigned to history but until then we continue to suffer.
Prior to that it looked like we’d got out of jail with a goal from nothing from Bellegarde cancelling out Cameron Archer’s excellent strike.
Wolves had controlled much of the first half and probably should have been ahead having finessed their way through a few times only for Hwang, Ait-Nouri and Semedo to be wasteful with the final action.
But the Blades pressed higher and harder in the second half and the players in gold just couldn’t get out.
It was poor game management, losing the ball in bad areas and not adjusting for the monsoon conditions.
Having gone behind and somehow got it back to one all, the sloppiness continued and the penalty should have been prevented even before it was controversially awarded.
Ait-Nouri made a weak clearance, resulting in the ball coming back to force the corner. The ball across was repelled but Fabio pulled out of an aerial challenge for a bouncing ball allowing the scrum that eventually gave the ref a decision to make.
Whatever Gary O’Neil might say about the officiating he must also be seething at his players for bringing this indignity on themselves.
They’ve got to do better.
One question that must be asked: Why was Baldock still on the pitch after committing a second bootable offence early in the second half?
I’m SO sick of VAR, I can’t even bear to think about it.
Poor old Fabio is trying too hard when he comes on isn’t he?
Anyway, it’s about time Sheffield United got their first win and what better team to do it against than our own WWFC… there were echoes of the team that we had pre Pedro’s return after his first injury.
Obviously SU were helped along by the ref. Disappointing…
Poor old Fabio? I commend your charitable nature mate, but the guy is a liability. By my count, he commited more fouls than he had touches of the ball and not only missed a simple header, he was offside if he had got it!! He’s appalling mate, and his apparent effort looks more like petulance to me as he flounces around pushing or fouling people.
All that said, now my rage at him for his woeful display and inexplicable inability to clear the ball first time and then giving the ref a decision to make has subsided a tad as I’ve started to dry out a bit, his genuine distress at the end was really not nice to see. He needs a season in Championship and not a holiday in Holland or Belgium to get him ready for English football…:
Just got back from the game and I completely agree with your assessment AR I have been supportive of Fabio but his brief appearance today was an absolute disgrace. Being charitable he completely lost his head as soon as he came on the pitch. Simply not good enough . GON didn’t trust him before today and he definitely won’t trust him after today. He will be gone on loan in January and that will be the last we see of him in a Wolves shirt I’m afraid.
Totally spot on – for his own sake he’s got to move on – he’s such a liability, always straying off-side, useless header – terrible finisher – just runs around like a headless chicken fouling people and getting booked or getting fouled and quite frankly is taking the place of another player – like young Fraser..
Seems a bit desperate now – most definitely has to go ‘ somewhere – anywhere’ just get him off our books and take a massive hit and move on !
Spot on
Spot on right AR. Silva is a total liability. Period.
If you`re losing late in the game and you bring on the clown, it simply says that you`re accepting defeat. This guy could play all season without scoring. He has zero attributes.
You say he needs a season in the Championship. I can`t believe that any Championship side would want him. I doubt he`d get a regular game in Divison 2.!
Chuckle… I was trying to gently drop a hint that, maybe it was time management acknowledged that Fabio was an expensive mistake and it’s time to let him go, before he makes more expensive mistakes like giving that penalty away at 90’ +6’… I mean, that WAS costly wasn’t it?
He’s never going to get any better now is he?
Bootable is quite apt but it should read as bookable
Very poor display sum up very accurately above, no pace , feeble attack, midfield gave the ball away to easily, throws ins , may as well just give them the ball back which we often did, as for the penalty well we knew the outcome because were wolves,
We got what we deserved ,,nothing on that display back to the drawing board for Gon
Makes me think I should give up on supporting Wolves while they keep this VAR bias going against us , maybe tiddlywinks is a better option anymore fancy a game
We got what we deserved today. Ok, There’s always dodgy VAR decisions to blame but if you put the opposition to the sword then the fuckwits at Stockley park lose all their power.
After years of saying give him a chance he’s only young, it’s time to let Fabio move on. He’s not good enough for the premier league. In fact if anything he appears to be getting worse.
He would probably be gone already if that idiot Shi had not staked his reputation on him as a generational talent and paid £35 million .The club need to sell him and get what’s er they can for him and move on rapidly .He will never be up to PL standard .
Trouble is Nick it may be difficult to find anyone willing to buy him. — at any price! Se may have trouble giving him away.
SIMPLE NEXT WEEK V SPURS. We get screwed over again by VAR we walk off the pitch. We need to take radical action. Ok we were rubbish. We were rubbish at Luton. But instead of 4 points we have got 1. It can’t go on. Even Gary Lineker said we had another stinking VAR decision on top of last week v Newcadtle. IT HAS GOT TO STOP.
Fully agree COD. There comes a point when enough is enough and we have to make a stand. Only with the support of other clubs will there be any chance of a change. The game is being ruined by the officials and no-one in authority is taking this problem seriously enough.
Brizzie. All the comments about the refereeing shortcomings and VAR errors are certainly true. But the reality is today we just plain rubbish. We got exactly what we deserved from the game. Zilch. And we were playing against a crap team that had failed to win all season !!
GON should quit his post match moaning about penalty decisions going against us, and concentrate on understanding just how we can play so poorly as a team, and just why he made such bad selection / substitution decisions.
Maybe the fans should all leave as a sign of frustration.
Why throw away the points if we are drawing or winning?
Could you imagine if 20,000 people just walk out?
I absolutely agree with you – it would be a brilliant protest although it would be hard to evaluate while at the game , easier to see on tv . Except for that corruption at Man Unied…a blind man could see that was a penalty
You are right Cheese. This has to stop. Our game is being ruined. We need a big statement demonstration. A walk out would certainly hit the spot, as someone else has suggested, but I am not sure how many people would be prepared to do that especially if it happened to be that the match in question was on a knife edge. Perhaps everyone dressed as clowns to show them what we think of their level of performance?
This is affecting other clubs as well and it would be good to get others involved too, but we seem to be at the brunt of it and it is way beyond acceptable. We may have to at least start this ourselves.
A couple of things spring to mind in the immediate aftermath:
1) Why are Wolves always, and I mean always, Charity FC? Remember Huddersfield in 2018/19 – they only won 3 matches all season but of course took 6 points off Wolves… it’s just so predictable that any team struggling or on a bad run breaks that cycle vs Wolves. Poor.
2) No team in the land is as negatively affected by VAR like Wolves. It’s bad enough that refs get it wrong, but to flagrantly ignore video evidence is just awful. If we (generously) ignore last season’s clangers, there’s 3 penalties given against that shouldn’t have been and 1 clear penalty for that was ignored!
As GON has said, we could have 18 points instead of 12 if VAR had given the right decisions. Luton & Sheff Utd given big helping hands.
Fortunately Sheff Utd & Luton are so bad that even referees can’t save them, and hopefully Wolves will acquire enough points to be safe.
We were awful, everyone at fault including some bizarre decisions by GON, but Var still found a way to screw us. At some point do we start to get suspicious that refs quite like there weeks holiday to the championship? 4 bizarre decisions in 11 games is more than bad luck.
That said that should be the end of Fabio. Looking at the difference between him and Sasa is embarrassing, Sasa looks like he should be a lumbering cart horse but his eye for a pass, ball control and ability to make something out of nothing makes him a real menace. Fabio just gives away needless free kicks, sits offside and does everything he can to break up our attacks. Can we send him to the championship with the ref?
This whole “clear and obvious” nonsense is just that. Bullshit!
VAR should be there to correct errors, period! Whether they are clear, obvious, or obscure. It’s supposed to be there to correct incorrect calls by the referee because he couldn’t see clearly. If the foul didn’t happen, then it didn’t effin happen! I don’t care about clear and obvious. That’s why VAR has the technology and the time to dice it and slice it every which way and sideways, so they can be sure.
So enough of this clear and obvious smoke and mirrors I say. Stop the bullshit and use the technology to improve the game not destroy it.
So hopping mad right now. I need a walk.
GoWolves
If you compare VAR to say TMO in RU or the Review system in cricket the whole procedure is carried out in public with the whole discussion being aired before a final decision is reached. Think that, unlike VAR, this goes a very long way to discount any suspicion of potential collusion and corruption between onfield officials and underground bunkers.
And begs the question – why do we not adopt a similar set of protocols in the PL? OR for some obscure do the powers at be prefer “The Sounds of Silence” for more sinister reasons?
The bullshit continues pjb
IFAP recently announced that they don’t think hearing the conversation between refs and var could put the refs safety at risk?
Have you ever heard such a load of nonsense
Utw
It’s the same with the NFL. Reviews are quick, decisive and clear. Controversy is a rarity. I have no idea why EPL have complicated this so much. I think clubs need to start suing the refereeing association. Enough is enough.
Yes another controversial defeat but this should have been a nailed on win Gary. We have now taken one point from visits to Luton and Bramhall Lane.
For those of us who took comfort from the theory there were 3/4 teams worse than us the above seems to indicate that it may not be so. Long way to go and plenty more points to be lost to the opposition, referees and VAR. Too many results like this and the safety mark will start to recede into the sunset. Nobody is ever “too good to go down”.
Here we go. World beaters to relegation fodder.
Some perspective please.
Terrible match for us. How T Doyle has got himself into the team is a mystori. Why Silva still is in the squad, an even bigger. Please start with Gomez or Traore. Bad management from GON. No crosses into the big guy in front. “The Corean guy” should also have been subbed early on. When something do not work, why wait and wait, and..
I agree Dag. Until recently we were playing Jao Gomez in the middle of the park with Lemino. They had the makings of solid long term partnership. — willing to put themselves about and take control. But now Gomez has fallen out of favor. Why?
Doyle may have an eye for a telling pass, but we lack the urgency and strength that Gomez provides. A rethink is surely necessary.
The Korean guy with the goal assist. Hmm!
Ho Neto; no creativity; no penetration: no threat; no points.
Entirely predictable.
Exactly Mike.
The Newcastle goal tonight. 1. It was a throw in to Arsenal. 2. It wad a foul on yhe Arsenal defender. 3. It might have been offside. VAR ? IT’S A GOAL !! Anyone seriously think at Molineux v Arsenal that goal gets given ??? Do me a fuckin favour.
Two complete waste of spaces identified today …
… VAR and
.. FABIO SILVA ..
I despair for VAR but I just know that Silva is a £35 million flop of epic proportions…
I’m really disappointed with today .. simply no one should be excluded from criticism.. after such a shambolic performance…
Gave up on this season before today because of VAR. Staying up is all that matters to me now.
But Fabio can’t get a break at the moment. Yes he is immature, yes he makes bad decisions but he clearly feels that he owes us and is trying desperately to repay.
Please give him a break for a while at least.
I’d give it a good go as well Hertford. But like Fabio I too would be crap!
Any one of us in the stand would try our best but it needs a bit more than just enthusiasm.
Typical wolves, however Doyle and sasa are not starters, penalty was soft, but just boot ball away, first half we tried to walk it in, where’s that whisky, God bless u bloggers, wolves are we!
Sasa could have had a goal if Ait Nouri didn’t lunge at the ball.
Can anyone tell me of an opposition manager leaving Molineux since VAR came in fuming at a highly controversial decision given against him by VAR ? I’d like to know of any ? Let me know . Or even when they were at home v Wolves !
Hi cheeseburger, we should be used to supporting wolves, 50 years I have , ups and downs, not great for your bp or heart, but I would not want it any other way, I love them , wolves aie we!
R mate Wolves ay We. It’s still a bit weird that almost 50 years later the Wolves result still makes or breaks the weekend. Good job we have a summer ay it chap.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhh.
The dodgy 100th minute penalty! Cheers. Not that we covered ourselves in glory prior. Should have had three in the first half though. Another one of Gazzbo’s ‘inspirational’ half time talks later, and a £35million kick in the nuts.
Ouch.
Incredibly, not even the worst VARse decision of the day. The Saudi backed robots had to more or less pick up the ball and place it in the net at St James’ Park.
I do miss Kenny Hibbitt at the ref monitoring station. He’d have blown the bloody doors off.
1 lv & COYW.
R mate. Watched that today. Unbelievable. Like I said earlier. If that goal is given Wolves v Arsenal at Molineux i will eat my fuckin trousers.
I used to love watching the Mr Men by Roger Hargreaves.
True story – there was a character called Little Miss Fickle. Google it.
The Fickle family loved football.
Mr Fickle was a season ticket holder. Guess who he supported.
So many talking points today.
Decent first half performance. Poor second half. First game without our No 1 attacking outlet.
Wonderful goal by Archer.
Excellent response by Bellegarde.
And then, and you couldn’t make this up, another contentious penalty decision goes against us.
We lose to Sheffield Utd, who had made the worst start to a Premier League season ever, with 1 point and 29 goals conceded.
Fabio Silva once again the target of many fans fury.
Gary O’Neil mystified by the referee doubling down on his original decision to award a penalty.
And once again Gary O’Neil’s position being called into question again.
Today’s performance and result was disappointing. We shouldn’t have been in the position of losing the game as a result of another poor on field decision that was inexplicably ignored by VAR.
But that is now 4 shocking penalty decisions that have gone against us in just 11 games, costing us a likely 6 points. We could be sat on 18 points with Brighton and Man Utd and pushing for a European spot. Incredible considering the upheaval during the Summer and that we had the toughest run of opening fixtures.
So, no, Gary O’Neil should not be sacked. He’s doing an excellent job and I believe he will only get better.
Yes, we will miss Neto until he’s back and match fit. Any team would.
No, we shouldn’t jump on Fabio Silvia’s back. He should continue to get all the support possible, but it may well be he would benefit from being loaned out, but not pushed out. He was distraught after the penalty was awarded, and is perhaps only guilty of trying too hard to impress.
And finally, yes, a radical review of both the standard of refereeing and how VAR is used is needed. Not just needed. It is absolutely necessary, because it is ruining the game.
I’ve already mentioned the comparison of officiating of top flight Rugby Union to top flight football and how it makes football look amateur. And rugby has a fraction of the money.
We have just lost one game after being unbeaten for 5. We beat City, held high flying Villa and Newcastle and beat Bournemouth away. We had no automatic right to win today. Two teams were trying to win. Today it wasn’t us.
Perspective please.
UTW
Marvellous analysis Muttleigh. I fully agree with everything you say.
Several of us commented on the absolute disgrace that is VAR, and the possible reasons in the pregame blog.
Doing nothing achieves nothing! We must act! Ask for a meeting with head of VAR. Ask for a meeting with the press. Demand a replay of the match just to put the pressure on. Request that the VAR conversations be made public on tv live. Request European people to sit in on VAR to prevent biases. Request no referees be in the VAR room so they will not avoid a decision to prevent fellow refs being embarrassed. Meet with the PL, FIFA and anyone else, as 4 wrong decisions in a few games is unacceptable! We want people to fight for our club and fight against obvious wrongs, and not just bend over and take it. Fight, for Pete’s sake.
There is an expression in sport, “If you keep on doing what you been doing, you will keep on getting what you be getting!”
Fight, make noise, refuse the next press conference in protest, or only talk about VAR and nothing else! Fight, FFS!
I could think of many other ways to raise attention, but for Christ sake, Wolves—- show some fight!
I agree. Gary should refuse next press conference in protest. It’s a start.
A good analysis Muttleigh, except for one important thing. We simply cannot keep overlooking the fact that Silva is not Premier league quality.
The guy might well be a nice bloke. He might be very keen, and it`s not his fault that Shi wasted millions on signing him. But to carry on pretending that it will all come out OK in the end is just plain fairy tale nonsense..
Silva is a liability. And he`s paid four million a year to impersonate a clown. He should never again be anywhere near a match day squad. It`s surely time for reality. He needs to go
Thank you Muttleigh for being, as usual, the voice of reason.
Agree with you although we did waste the high quality approach work in the first half with poor finishing or decision making. Even a one goal lead at HT would have changed the game. Interesting that even after watching replays with GON the referee still thought it was a penalty.Rugby does it much better as you day and referrals in cricket simply produce a factual result (clear and obvious has nothing to do with it). If we scrap VAR where does it leave us? He gave it on field so the result wouldn’t have changed. A mixture of incompetence and attention seeking is the biggest issue with our referees but Webb was guilty of the latter in his day so I doubt it will change. Unfortunately our coaches will have to instil a discipline (particularly our forwards when they are defending) to close down and ‘crowd’ an opponent but not challenge for the ball otherwise it’s inviting trouble. We’d had a good run so perspective is definitely required. Even in Nuno’s best seasons games like this happened.
100% Muttleigh
The voice of reason as usual Mutt1eigh.
I agree with your post bar the Fabio part. He must be miserable as sin the way his Wolves career is going. For his own sake and ours I think he needs a fresh start.
it’s time for GON too be gone.
And Brain of Britain goes to……..
I remember catching bus from pensnett to Dudley, then to Wolverhampton, talking to Tim flowers warming up, where has the time gone, I’m a old man living in Spain now, yet when we play my wife says I’m a big kid, it’s in my dna, I’m quite emotional tonight, God bless my bloggers family!
I fear for the safety of officials whether it be at Molineux or any stadium if this incompetence or corruption continues. Fans have had enough
Just been looking at the table. Just by these 2 penalty decisions Newcastle and Sheff Utd we would be on 15 points 2 points behind Newcastle on 17. As it is and given the farcical VAR for Newcastle yesterday they are on 20 points and we are on 12. Instead of 2 points. The gap is now 8 points. And that is just based on the last 2 games. It is only going to take a soft decision for Spurs or against us next Saturday and Molineux is going to become even more seething than it will be before kick off ! Looking forward to seeing the bunch of clowns in charge from Fawlty Towers next week. They will probably have Harry Kane on VAR on his day off from Bayern Munich.
Here’s a thought. There is a suggestion that the VAR officials try to support their mates officiating, sub conscience bias perhaps. Have independents run the VAR. Foreign refs? Remove the suggestion of nepotism and would take the sting out a lot of the controversy.
I’m sure I’m not alone in repeatedly watching the incident involving Fabio Silva and George Baldock that led to a penalty. Different angles, slo mo.
It became very clear very quickly that Silva did not foul Baldock. The player was already falling over. There was minimal if any contact.
Whilst I can be charitable and understand why the referee gave it initially in real time, it is impossible to see how a competent VAR check could do anything other than overturn the decision.
Whether or not you agree with the stipulation that a clear and obvious error needs to have been made before VAR intervenes, it was obviously wrong. It was clearly not a foul.
The corruption narrative makes no sense. A conspiracy against Wolves? Who gains what from penalty decisions going against a mid table West Midlands based football team in the Premier League?
It’s poor standards of refereeing, compounded with an awful application of VAR, that is creating these unfair and significant consequences. And Wolves have suffered disproportionately. 4 times in 11 games. 6 probable points lost.
The solution? Better training and development of match officials. A clear process to reward good officials and hold poor and inconsistent ones accountable for their performance. Transparency in the VAR process during the match. A review of how VAR is used.
Which brings me on to Fabio Silva. He’s struggling. Yesterday’s cameo looked like a player desperate to impress. Trying too hard. He wasn’t responsible for the penalty decision. He was doing his job and was unfortunate to be the one accused of committing a foul in the box. It wasn’t a foul.
Perhaps the best way forward for the youngster is to go out on loan again and see what develops for him.
But the social media abuse that I’ve seen elsewhere must stop. He’s not a criminal. He’s done nothing wrong other than pursue a sport and career he loves and he’s had the good fortune to be in the position he is.
There’s a huge difference between offering an opinion about a team or individuals performance, which we are all entitled to do, and some of the continuing abuse I’ve seen. It’s mindless, classless and inexcusable. And the Wolves community would be better off without so called supporters like that.
UTW
He’s a good kid but not a Premier League player. I genuinely wish him well but he needs to go elsewhere.
Exactly! One of my many thoughts!
People slagging off Silva like it was his fault we lost, it wasn’t a pen and he was only on the pitch for 15min even though we were being outplayed and outfought throughout the second half and created very little in the first half when we had some control also squandering the couple decent opportunities that did arise. Nobody was on their game the whole match with the exception of Dawson and Kilman. People need to give their heads a wobble, seeing him at the end was a hard watch, clearly the weight of that ridiculous price tag, no fault of his own it has to be said, has become a stone around his neck.
While we have to suffer this corruption friendly technology, here is a technological change that would definitely improve football for all and its a simple one …..
There should be a clock in every single football ground that stops at 90 minutes. When the Ref stops his clock for stopages then we all see it .
NO MORE REFS that think they are bigger than the game and give favour if they feel like it
Spot on Matt.!!!!
I see that Arteta has made some damning comments about VAR and the general standard of refereeing and that Arsenal football club is officially backing him.
That is after ONE possible mistake yesterday, where it really could not be proven that the ball was out of play, the defender was fouled or the scorer was offside.
Well, suck it up you arrogant git!
Get used to it!
You were possibly denied one point.
We have had at least six points taken from us in clear cut refereeing and VAR cock ups over a series of games.
Perhaps a coach of one of the ‘Big Six’ saying these things may bring about a change.
Nothing that Wolves have said has had any effect whatsoever, apart from a string of apologies.
Having said that, unlike all the other occasions we’ve been on the wrong end of bad decisions, we really didn’t deserve anything from that game.
But still should have come away with a point.
I fully agree that Arteta is an arrogant tit! But his club have spoken out! They have issued a statement etc. When Liverpool were robbed, Klopp et al went public and demanded a replay! But no club statement from Wolves!
Four obvious VAR errors in 11 games and only silence from the club! We have to speak out, demand meetings and put the pressure on them! If not, their attitude will continue, “It’s only Wolves, get over it!”
The club owes it to the players and the Manager to speak out. Doing nothing will change nothing!
I am so angry at the lack of response from Wolves. Where is their backbone?
Aaarrrggggghhhh!!!
I agree with Mutt1eigh.
I do feel sorry for Fabio. He is in a situation which is no fault of his own. He didn’t ‘ask’ to be bought for £35 mil. That was someone else’s fault.
I know he is a people pleaser, he does try too hard and was, unfortunately, on the wrong end of a disgraceful VAR decision to let a penalty ruling stand.
It would be only be fair for him start afresh somewhere else.
My beef is with the FA refereeing community and I’ve lost all respect with the whole shebang of them. I also cannot comprehend why they can’t manly admit to the obvious mistakes they make and overturn original decisions. So what, if they lose face?
That is the whole point of VAR ISN’IT IT??
It’s evident that things are not right in FA management and it all need sorting.
They’d be well advised to learn something from the RU community. Those guys DO know how to referee a match.
I need a cup of tea to calm down.??
Good point made on radio 5 live at lunch time. The Sheff Utd player involved just got up and played on. He knew it wasn’t a pen so how come the Ref/VAR gave it. ? I can produce a list as long as your arm of all the VAR injustices since the Dendoncker incident at Leicester (INCIDENT 1). So these things even themselves out right ? So here is the list of VAR injustices we have benefited from (to even it up). Well there was erm………er………….just trying to think……. erm………….
after today the gap is closing, we desperately need some points,I think we will get a point against spurs, VAR wishing,
Someone has just put all the var injustices for wolves ( with videos) on twitter , I mean X cheese.
Check it out
I’ve just been kicked off the BBC HYS for the Villa game. I basically said Villa are deluded and no better than the Nuno Wolves side in our pomp. To be fair Villa wre giving us grief yesterday for losing to Sheff U on our HYS. All is fair in love and war. They really are a bunch of entitled deluded clowns !
Listening to Jonathan Pearce & Clive Allen covering Ligue 1 they made a good point.
The French football authorities seem to have the VAR balance spot on. Leaving everything up to the ref UNLESS they feel he should runs across to the monitor to take another look.
It really does seem like the refereeing utopia that we had all hope for when VAR was introduced.
Don’t believe for a second that there is any true conspiracy against Wolves
Do believe that the way the VAR system is set up is total bollocks
Suspect that there is, for a reason I can’t fathom, anti-Wolves bias…NOT conspiracy.
But,,…it should have been a game well won and, as I suspected, we were a bit clueless without the bursts provided by Neto. If you play a 6’8″ striker why not send over some crosses he can head…especially from free kicks? That’s on Doyle.
Somehow I’m not feeling the pain I should be in.
Need to put our big boy pants on for Spuds….fixtures after that look less stressful
OODCL
PS farewell sweet prince
Anyone else watching the incredible double standards in refereeing Spurs v Chelsea ?
Bellgardes sending off at luton springs to mind
Spurs 2nd string on Saturday?
Yes. Spurs have 2 sent off. Ensures loads of Referee pay back at Wolves. As we know. The whole thing is corrupt as fuck . And we know exactly what will happen at Molineux.
“Former Premier League manager ‘lined up to replace Nuno Espirito Santo’ at Al Ittihad… after the ex-Wolves boss was sacked after just six wins in 12 league games despite boasting the likes of Karim Benzema and N’Golo Kante”
I’m really puzzled by VAR and Rashford laughing at the ref fir last nights Red Card…. Likewise Maguire for his handball protests…
In Rashford’s case … that was an ankle breaking attempt to protect the ball… reckless and dangerous… YES .. perhaps not intentional.. but are they ever ..?
But to start laughing and undermining the decision .. disgraceful…
And as for players haranguing the referee .. usual ones .. Bruno Fernandes and Maguire ..
Poor Lemina … got a red for the approach ..!
That’s now 4 officially incorrect VAR calls for us all involving gamechanging penalties. It’s hard not to feel like there is a conspiracy going on but at the same time it’s hard to imagine why they would target us above other teams of a similar stature, neither Luton or Shef U fit the ‘big six bias’ theory but they are both benign contenders in the EPL, no offence intended but survival by any margin will be considered a successful season.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/premier-league-confirm-latest-wolves-28075849