If it was the one mistake they're all pretending it was, I'd actually think standing him down is a bit harsh - it was a stamp on Mitoma, he missed it, it happens. But that is not why so many of us are still angry - it wasn't one mistake, it was 5!
I doubt many of us have ever done as badly as Salisbury did on Saturday.
For context, I don't think any VAR official has ever done as badly as he did on Saturday. Happy to see examples if anyone thinks they have.
SSN:
"Stuart Attwell will be the VAR for Wolves against Brentford despite his involvement in the controversial decision not to award Brighton a penalty when Mitoma was fouled"
It's such a joke that SSN are only capable of looking at the one incident that there's been an apology for, and not all...
The Premier League have just apologised to Man Utd for the stress caused by making them wait until after the final whistle before awarding them a penalty.
I guess their wording is correct when it says 'one of their biggest grievances', because that one was in the top 5 grievances.
But the fact that it's only an apology for one mistake makes my blood boil.
No.
Firstly I'd like apologies for the other mistakes, not just the one. And the people making the mistakes should be punished in accordance with not doing their job properly. That's pretty much all we can expect.
I don't blame VAR for yesterday, I blame the official using it. He can be blamed, and should be fired. The problem without VAR is that they can get decisions like the Mitoma penalty wrong and you can't really complain, because it wasn't easy to see live. And then you'd get more bad decisions in...
Nah, that would be worse. What if your club earnt 4th over an entire season, finishing 20 points above 7th, and then dodgy ref decisions in playoffs awarded the CL spot to them instead?