🚨 Carragher on Manchester City’s goal against United being given after a VAR check:
🗣️ Carragher: “They’ve checked Haaland and decided he’s onside. Brilliant. Nobody was asking about Haaland.
Look at Enzo Fernandez .
He’s standing offside when the ball comes in. Martinez has to deal with him because he’s right there challenging for the ball. He doesn’t have the luxury of saying, ‘Don’t worry, Enzo is offside, I’ll leave this one.’
He tries to deal with the situation, the ball goes beyond him and it falls to Haaland.
Then VAR comes along, draws the line on Haaland and says goal.
Well done. You’ve proved the man who finished the move was onside. Now perhaps check why the ball reached him.
That’s the bit I don’t understand. If Enzo isn’t standing there, Martinez deals with the cross completely differently. So how can we say he hasn’t affected the play simply because he didn’t touch the football?
By that logic, just stand five yards offside in front of every defender. Don’t touch the ball. Make him deal with you, let it run through to somebody who’s onside and apparently you’ve done nothing.
That’s not football.
Sometimes VAR looks so closely at the final frame that they forget there was a football match happening before it.”
Carrick: "There is an arm in face of Lisandro to start, he goes to balance + touches his hair. The bobble comes out, it's not aggressive. We need to be careful where game going if you can do arms in face, that's alright. Absolutely shocking decision. Hope Licha still available."
Bruno Fernandes played 120 minutes, scored a goal, hit the crossbar nearly scoring one of the best goals ever seen at Old Trafford, led a comeback for the ages then stayed at sign autographs for fans more than two hours after the game had finished.
That's my Captain right there.
The clubs Q2 24/25 financial results are out and as suspected. It’s grim reading.
1Billion paid to service debt repayments.
700m+ outstanding Glazer debt.
300m+ owed on transfers.
Surely this debt is the elephant in the room at board level?
Our club is financially spiralling into the abyss due to crippling debt repayments and 20 years of mismanagement.
We all know what the root cause of this. We have always known. Nothing has changed.
Governing and ruling bodies have been complicit and have failed us.
This financial burden not only limits our ability to invest in the squad, infrastructure, and community but also risk undermining the values and ambitions that define us.
Our commitment, since we started was to remove the Glazers and ensuring the future of the club remains bright and secure. This will never change.
Punishing fans who can least afford it with ticket price increases is not the answer.
The answer is the Glazers need to go!
YOUR DEBT NOT OURS!
Join us in protest on the 9th March before the Arsenal game.
The 1958🇾🇪
Man City have just secured a star player on a £1m-a-week deal, added a £70m striker - likely as backup - and signed a wonderkid for £33m.
Thanks for PSR, Newcastle can’t even sign their main target Khusanov, but Man City can also add him in for a laugh. It’s anticompetitive.
Bournemouth are two points clear of Man City in the table. And they’ve done it all without a net spend of £2bn in 15 years and 130 alleged charges for breaking Financial Fair play rules.
Manchester United did not play today, meanwhile Newcastle were thrashed 4-1 by Bournemouth at home, Liverpool won 2-0 away to Brentford, Arsenal had a controversial 2-2 draw vs Aston Villa.
Instead, let's talk about Marcus Rashford & that'll get you some attention. Have shame.
🚨🗣️ Alan Shearer on West Ham's penalty:
"Awful decision. That's a terrible decision whether you like Man Utd or not, and I don't understand why Michael Oliver got involved." #MUFC
Ten Hag: "In football not always the best team is winning. Today was clear + obvious. But clear + obvious wasn't how VAR worked. I'm not criticising any person, I am criticising the process. You have to show big personality to recall this decision. Big impact on score." #MUFC