Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [1st - 3rd April 2025]
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Bit like a golfer hitting a hole in one. He’s trying and hoping the ball goes in the hole, rather than expecting it too. Did he intend that exact thing to happen when it left his foot? Unlikely. Did he fizz it into that area hoping it would go in, take a deflection, keeper would fluff it, might go in off the post or a Newcastle player would get his head on it? Absolutely the intention was that the ball found the net so yes, he meant it.
He's playing to his audience. You only have to read Everton twitter to see how they're trying to make out it was some sort of robbery, ignoring the fact that there was no offside for our goal and a miracle that they were not down to 10 men early in the 1st half.
They may not play like it’s a derby, but I’m sure like any professional sports team they will want a win, even a draw will do.
Clearly a translation error.He said in the post-match interview it was 70% cross, 30% short.
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I know I like to take the **** out of the South American Andy Carrol, but what the **** is going through the refs head, that’s a pen all day long and possibly a red card at the same time
Play had already been stopped prior to this, but the players hadn't heard the whistle. And Darwin was a little silly for rolling back on the pitch to delay the restart of the game.
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Thanks for adding some context, I hadn’t seen the build up and had just seen that incident
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Advantage should have been played though. Then it would have been a pen. Or should anyway. Who knows with these officials.
Then dont give the pen but you cant just volley someone like Pickford did. Thats a red all day long yet Nunez got booked lol.
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Same thing happened when Pickford crippled van dijk. He got away with a potential career ending challenge because the whistle had blown. Absolutely insane.
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Lukaku. He became a meme it was so bad.
No surprise, the PGMOL have confirmed that Tarkowski should have been sent off.
I know we all complain about VAR most weeks however the stupidity of the way it's applied usually means the VAR was right (or at least not wrong) to make the calls they did however this, along with the Fernandes red vs Spurs (+ a few others that I've no doubt forgot), was just mind boggling. How can a qualified referee look at that challenge with multiple slow motion replays and not determine that it was a clear red?
The sooner they remove 'clear and obvious' from the rules the better. Not only does it result in ridiculous situations where two identical challenges can result in two completely different decisions and we're told both are correct but it just confuses the life out of officials. As incompetent as I think Tierney is, even I don't believe he didn't think Tarkowski's challenge wasn't a red but by asking him if it's a clear error, it gives him an out to not make the decision, to not throw his young colleague under the bus in a high profile game.
I know we all complain about VAR most weeks however the stupidity of the way it's applied usually means the VAR was right (or at least not wrong) to make the calls they did however this, along with the Fernandes red vs Spurs (+ a few others that I've no doubt forgot), was just mind boggling. How can a qualified referee look at that challenge with multiple slow motion replays and not determine that it was a clear red?
The sooner they remove 'clear and obvious' from the rules the better. Not only does it result in ridiculous situations where two identical challenges can result in two completely different decisions and we're told both are correct but it just confuses the life out of officials. As incompetent as I think Tierney is, even I don't believe he didn't think Tarkowski's challenge wasn't a red but by asking him if it's a clear error, it gives him an out to not make the decision, to not throw his young colleague under the bus in a high profile game.
Yeh I agree with this, it also will send out a message.
While it would be fun to see Evertonian's reaction to a retrospective ban, Tarkowski wasn't the first and won't be the last player to escape a red card and go unpunished. It is slightly bonkers but since the introduction of VAR, barring exceptional circumstances, the FA have seemingly done away with retrospectively banning players for missed red cards.
Yeah its stupid, they can review a given red card, decide it was a mistake and rescind the red card but they dont seem willing to do the opposite
He’s been given a different answers in most interviews “for me it was a power shot”He said in the post-match interview it was 70% cross, 30% short.
Eddie said he tries stuff like that all the time in training and he’s a little bit scared for his keepers safety hah he hits it that hard.
looks like he’s just smashed it towards the goal hoping for a rebound or a defection and it’s flew straight in!
Better angle here.