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[Football] Villa missing out on the Champions League because...
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One of the worst decisions I've seen in the PL. Would not be surprised if they're contacting lawyers to take action against PGMOL.
I can't look at it like that.
There were 37 other matches.
It was a shit decision though.
As someone else has pointed out today we have been denied Europe by virtue of Attwell and VAR's shocker in the Cup Final so I won't be shedding any tears for Villa.
Algernon
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In some way it's payback for their season of conning refs with time wasting etc. Firkham.
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Same refereeing error that robbed Dunky of an equaliser against West Brom a few years back.
West Brom 1-0 Brighton: Referee Lee Mason lost control - Lewis Dunk
Brighton captain Lewis Dunk says the decision to disallow his goal in the defeat by West Brom is "embarrassing and horrendous".
www.bbc.co.uk
- Oct 20, 2022
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Chelsea are playing Champions League next season, they really won’t give a shft what happens in Wrocław!
Washie
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Honestly, keep VAR, remove the referee. Or get specially train VA refs rather than old boys club refs and treat it like rugby.
Perhaps PGMOL have changed the rules....
(sound of intensive research and checking)
Errr.... nope.
Fergytime* has been replaced by incompetence.
*Or incompetence as it was once known.
- May 8, 2018
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f*** em,
Should have gone down but saved by an error.
Karma
Should have gone down but saved by an error.
Karma
Washie
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Because the foul happened before the whistle was blown. This goal was scored after.
Yes - but it still seems totally wrong that VAR couldn't intervene.
PascalGroß Tips
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Dreadful decision but rules don’t allow for it to be looked at as no goal was scored (all checked) and it wasn’t for a possible penalty (again all checked). Really tough on Villa.
This is why they failed. 
Washie
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I completely agree, but people hate VAR so much they want to limit it, when i think it would be better for the game to be more like Rugby's system.
Yeah, the point is the whistle is supposed to be final. Game over or game stopped. In one scenario they went back in another they didn’t.
PascalGroß Tips
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No change in rules. United got their pen as it happened before whistle was blown and all possibly pens checked by VAR. We did get our own back with a similar situation though.
The rules don’t allow VAR to get involved in the Villa incident.
Washie
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Nope, even before VAR red cards could be given, penalties can be brought back after the final whistle too (very rare). If a player handles it in the area then clears, but ref doesn't see, he can blow for ft. The linesman could flag for it, speak to the ref, then it can still be given.
- Apr 19, 2018
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I feel a bit for the referee. Human error, however costly, is still human error and he’s got weeks now to dwell on it before he has the opportunity to have a good game and get it out of his system. I hope that first game back when he might be more prone to pressure induced errors isn’t with us. At least Atwell never seems to have wait more than a couple of weeks before being allowed to commit another abomination of appalling incompetence.