Its really not about correcting every error though.
Surely they can see that Wolves dropped a point last night because of bias/ineptitude/corruption…call it whatever. That could be important in a tight season.
VAR was meant to bring the ref to the screen in such an incident.
It has failed on at least 3 occasions this weekend.
I wouldn’t be against this.
Assume it will be down the captain on the pitch or would it be the manager.
So, flag thrown. Ref HAS to come view the incident
And
Just like in cricket, what the ref sees will be shown on the big screens so everyone in the stadium can see.
The main issue here is that football in general has no coherent position on when a goalie can clatter an opposition player and when it cannot. When that is the case there is no rationale for when the game just seemingly spontaneously flips in a hive mind from thinking goalies can do that to thinking it’s a pen. It’s a situation entirely governed by vibes and they flip fairly capriciously. Ref’s cannot be expected to make people happy under those circumstances.
VAR is explicitly not to be used to give the ref another opportunity to just have another look. Nor is it to be used for the VAR to impart his own judgement on the decision making. It is to provide a way for a referee to correct their own mistake when they not clearly seen an incident they have made a decision on. This leaves a LOT of the game out of the scope for VAR to do anything and this is one of those times.
For them to punish the VAR officials seems cowardly as hell to me. It’s an example of a leader not liking the results of the process they put in place and then punishing the subordinates for the results of that faulty process.
The refs made 3 important errors in the first weekend of the league. At least.
Potentially huge nistakes.
VAR should be directing them to have a look at the screen. Surely that should be the main purpose of technology at this level?
In these instances the VAR did not provide the refs with the opportunity to correct their mistakes
Fixed for accuracy.
I don’t believe it was an error by the referee. I think he saw it and shit his pants because it was Man Utd at home and decided it was easier to just not give it.
Talking of goalkeepers clattering players… Short Arms at the weekend, tried to injure that Fulham kid when he was scoring… The ball was already past Short Arms as he slid across his goal attempting a save… what he does next though, is raise his legs above knee height knowing full well he would sweep through the kid.!
He is a horrible bastard… most certainly deserves someone giving him a taste of his own medicine at some point
Can view it here from 1:30
I have a soft Friday afternoon, might try to work with the Forest-Sheffield United match on. It somehow just feels right that these two clubs are playing at the top level of the pyramid again, though I suspect it may be as much as 50 years since they last met in the First Division.
edit: No, overlapped in the early days of the PL. Still, quite some time.
Odd this as I’ve always gone for the ball.
If the player sends the ball into me we are both clattering but I always have 100% focus on the ball. I potentially could clatter but I can only remember one penalty in my one on ones and that was a dive.
And to be honest it’s my best trait as a goalie everything else I was crap at 
I had the exact same thought. Until I saw the teams involved. Nope, going to work and commit to the 3pm, 5pm, 8pm run tomorrow instead
And there was me just about to ask if you’re available on Tuesday afternoons. 
Depends if it’s in Stoke 
Any reason why this game is on a Friday night as it’s not on TV.
Nottingham Forest has spent €238m in the last three transfer windows 
Wow - that was the 100th goal Forest has scored against the Blades in the top flight. Would not have guessed it was anywhere close.
Tô be fair they have bought about 60 players.
Sheffield Utd just equalised 1-1
Fun game, that one.
Take screenshots, Forest supporters. Your club is in the top half of the table.