De Zerbi to Spurs.
Iraola to Liverpool.
Maresca to City.
Alonso to Chelsea.
Meanwhile ‘biggest club in the world’ keeps turning inward, leaning on nostalgia and ‘United DNA’ & convincing itself that the past is still the answer while everyone else moves forward.
🚨🎙️ Rio Ferdinand on West Ham’s disallowed goal against Arsenal:
“I’ll tell you what, that VAR decision was absolutely shocking. Arsenal have been blocking and crowding goalkeepers from set-pieces all season, and nothing gets called.
We even saw it at Old Trafford when Saliba backed into Bayindir and stopped him from making the save, yet the goal stood without any complaints.
But now, in a huge title race game against West Ham, the same kind of contact suddenly becomes a foul on David Raya? It just doesn’t make sense.
You start wondering what standards are actually being used anymore because the inconsistency is becoming embarrassing.”
As many Manchester United fans have pointed out, Arsenal won at Old Trafford with a goal from a corner that wasn’t disallowed after a review and a dozen replays. And then there’s the foul from Rice that arguably started before the arm on Raya. This impacts not only the title but potentially a relegation costing north of £100m. Zero consistency, zero need. Get. Rid.
✍️ 'Study the first league goal that Arsenal scored last August, at Old Trafford. William Saliba was elbowing and obstructing Altay Bayindir, but still Riccardo Calafiori’s goal was allowed to stand, without any VAR review,' writes @oliverbrown_tel.
'The inconsistent officiating lies at the core of the controversy.'
Read the column ⬇️
https://t.co/e3B9Ui7cl9
🎙️ Gary Neville on the officiating inconsistency in the league:
“The moment that goal was disallowed, I immediately called someone I know inside PGMOL. I asked him: ‘So what exactly makes this a foul, but the one in United vs Arsenal earlier this season wasn’t?’ And honestly, the answer annoyed me even more. He told me:
‘This one is an obvious foul because the goalkeeper was deliberately impeded from reaching the ball.’
So immediately I asked:
‘Then why did the Arsenal goal against United stand?’ Because if we’re being serious, the situations are almost identical. In the United game, Altay Bayindir clearly tried to raise his arm to attack the ball and William Saliba literally grabs his arm and stops him from moving. How is that not interference? What kind of football is that?
And what frustrated me the most today was how long they spent reviewing the other goal with VAR. So suddenly now we have time to analyse goalkeeper contact carefully? Interesting.
Because when it happened to United, there wasn’t this same urgency. That’s where the frustration comes from. Fans can accept mistakes. What they cannot accept is inconsistency.”
🚨Gabriel Magalhaes pulled Erling Haaland’s hair — no red card, not even reviewed from VAR.
If that’s a Manchester United player… different story!
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