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Derry Alli

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It's all part of the ever-increasing creep of VAR, with it needlessly getting involved. The players have a shoving match, the ref sorts it out and everyone is happy, but then it zones in on a single isolated part of that. It's not some egregious act of violence, it's a shove.

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29 minutes ago, pandarilla said:

So what is it?

Just luck?

It's exceptionally poor officiating coupled with an alarming unwillingness to go against the bigger teams in the league. 

It's nothing new, VAR is just magnifying the incompetence more. 

We watched Salah dive all over the place and instigate contact for a season and yet still be awarded penalties. 

Today we witnessed Fulham have a man taken out in the box and receive nothing. We watched Mane try to buy a penalty and Firmino dive in the same incident and neither one was cautioned (to be fair, at least Mane looked sheepish as he got up). We watched Minamino nearly take a Fulham players head off 20 yards from the Fulham goal and watched the ref play advantage - as the Fulham player holds his face and tries to knock the ball over the head of oncoming attackers. 

We also watched Liverpool be awarded a penalty for the ball hitting the hand of a player in the wall whose hand was on his chest. Not outstretched. Not lifted. On. His.  Chest. 

I said it when it before it come out, it's a massive waste of time and resources. It has not been used properly and is still a massive waste of time and resources. Still, we get retakes when a goalie is 2 inches off his line at a penalty. 👏

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