It’s a timely reminder to people calling for VAR to be scrapped that the alternative is actually giving these people more power to screw up matches.

I’m glad the article explains what “wtf” means, always been a complete mystery.

He’s definitely in the top 2 Egyptians in the league right now, no question.

We don’t know whether De Bruyne and Guardiola would even be at City if it weren’t for the cheating.

Lol we absolutely do know: they definitely wouldn’t.

It does change slightly, as it becomes officially recognised rather than just being something people accuse them of.

His job is basically to allow the referees to be so bad it generates outrage clicks and he gets a show out of it, but not so bad that it leads to change and negatively affects him and his mates. Luckily for him, he has a lot of wriggle room since fans are all so tribal and every time there’s a ridiculous decision, there’s always enough fans happy enough that the team they dislike got screwed that they’ll be happy to support the current setup. Until the next week where their team are screwed over and their rivals are too busy gloating.

No, shit referees will cost it and people blaming VAR instead will be what enables them. Normal leagues are coping fine with VAR.

This is such a dangerous comment, attacking the PL’s impeccable financial investigators. Does Carragher not realise he is at risk of bringing the game into disrepute?!??!???

All the PL will do is wait for a season where City win the league by 20 points and strip them of 19.

Not sure your logic really works there. In that case they’d still have found the current champions of their own competition guilty…

Gabriel

Enough said, really. Has anyone made his welcome video yet?

“The panel has five members, made up of three former players and/or coaches, plus one representative each from the Premier League and PGMOL”

Do they say any more about who the panel members were? I would expect the PL and PGMOL to usually back their own officials especially if Arsenal have just called them out publicly, and for all I know the former players could be Michael Owen, Gary Neville and Jamie O’Hara.

This isn’t a VAR issue, it’s a clear conflict of interests issue. The VAR official, Michael Oliver, is literally taking money from City’s owners to ref matches in UAE. Any decision that harms City will harm his own chances of earning 20 grand per game in UAE.

Scrap VAR and you’ll still have this happening, only it’ll be less obvious because referees can hide behind an excuse of ‘not seeing’ things.

Is this the first Gabby -> Gabby -> Gabby goal?

UAE. Not Saudi, not Qatar. UAE.

UAE. Not Saudi, not Qatar. UAE.

UAE. Not Saudi, not Qatar. UAE.