You are 100% correct. But you are wasting your time in this particular argument.
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Arsenal dangerously close to winning the league.
Enter Lee Nason
Automated offside sadly is over due with these fuckwits.
People say get rid of VAR but you might get lucky and a fair few offsides are fairly judged, if you let this lot have the final decision 
I do feel only in the PL and English football you can give an aid to make decisions and they end up worse.
Maybe it should be solely automated VAR scrap everything else, I say that and then generally watch over Europe and it’s the odd one or two that are more subjective everything seems to work ok .
The issue is I trust the technology in general just not those using it, maybe football should get in people who know a computer I would hazard a guess with five mins of training on the rules would probably be better at this.
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Last night, not a game changer but still an obvious indicator of the bias toward those Abu Dhabi lot.
5 minutes in, free kick to City in the right back position.
Ref tells Martinelli to move back 10 yards, which he did.
Walker moves the ball 5 yards forward and ref tells Martinelli to move back again.
Absolute gutless officiating, bordering on blatant favouritism
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This is what p155es me off about refs and liners, they let far too much go. A liner will flag for offside and stand there in line with where the offside occurs. The kick taker puts the ball down further upfield and the liner does feck all.
Two different occasions on Monday, firstly we win a free kick on the touchline near the Ev box. The ref marks the spot for it to be taken with his spray. It was less than a yard infield. Later the Ev get a kick on the touchline near their box. Prickford puts the ball down about five yards infield and quite a few forward from where the offence occurred ref doesn’t make him go back. 
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And these are the little instances we’d usually be willing to let slide had they not got everything else wrong in games…or at least all the big decisions.
Every next big call becomes the worst you’ve ever seen, I thought the decision to award West Ham’s 3rd goal against Fulham after Antonio double, maybe triple handballed it was laughable, to only see the decision to allow Fernandes’ goal against City to stand after Rashford was offside…then further disregard for the own rules they’re protected by when you see Soucek falling to the ground leading with his arm and blocking a shot on goal in the box with that same arm he led with.
Where does this mess stop? They take the piss and insult even the uneducated football fans. All VAR is doing is essentially the blind leading the blind.
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Well, theres a decision to assist the Mancs to stay in the race.
Of course VAR saw fuck all wrong with it.
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I think Madley put em out of their misery…another 10 mins…could’ve been 10:0…prap’s he should’ve added extra:rofl:
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Collina should be concerning himself with eradicating incompetence, bias and corruption among refs instead of fretting about meaningless added time in games already decided.
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Smokescreen talk…hiding the most obvious subjects…
It isn’t meaningless if goal difference is a deciding factor.
This is a professional sport, not a kids kick about on a saturday afternoon.
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There are referees who are not fit, do not know the rules and can’t make the right decision even with the benefit of technology and they end up deciding the outcome of matches and by extention the outcome of league titles and cups. And that’s if they are not corrupt or biased to begin with.
Adding the correct amount of minutes at the end is secondary to getting the big decisions right. Besides, if they punished time wasting appropriately, they wouldn’t have to resort to 100 minute matches in the first place.
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Doesn’t matter if it’s secondary or not, they shouldn’t be ending games early out of sympathy.
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Collina is correct on this.
As @ILLOK righly says, this is professional sport.
And there are huge amounts at stake. So the pity gesture is simply a load of bollox.
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I never suggested that pity should come into play, not sure how you got that idea.
My problem with Collina is that in a match where the referee kept indulging one side, his issue was that there wasn’t enough added time.
If he thinks that time keeping is so important, he should push for the logical solution and stop the clock whenever the ball isn’t live. Otherwise, castigating match officials for the playing time, when they’ve committed much more more serious mistakes looks weak and silly.
But castigating them for both looks strong and sensible.
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The way Madley went at the end we’d have probably had about 5 injuries if he had added anything more than 3 mins on.
I thought he was pretty decent up to the point it became a bloodbath.
So crap, then.
Talk is cheap. He should do his job, instead of talking about it.