GWT: PL Matchweek 3

[hatterson]

Manchester United of course. I respect them as a rival and great club, but they've also historically gotten majority of the 50/50 calls going their way. Plus there have been articles published indicating that a handful of EPL refs favourite team growing up has been United and that doesn't necessarily change just because some bloke went through refereeing school. Case in point, Wayne Rooney's dive for a penalty that ended Arsenal's Invincible run.

I thought you were referencing a single player, namely Pogba, which confused me as I have no idea how anyone would ever call him a Golden Child of the EPL.

 

[Prntscrn]

Manchester United of course. I respect them as a rival and great club, but they've also historically gotten majority of the 50/50 calls going their way. Plus there have been articles published indicating that a handful of EPL refs favourite team growing up has been United and that doesn't necessarily change just because some bloke went through refereeing school. Case in point, Wayne Rooney's dive for a penalty that ended Arsenal's Invincible run.

Good teams gets themselves in position to get those calls with them more often, it was clear as day with Liverpool last season. I haven't seen any data on it, but I could almost guarantee United' SAF era compared to post SAF looks way different in that regard

 

[JeffreyLFC]

Good teams gets themselves in position to get those calls with them more often, it was clear as day with Liverpool last season. I haven't seen any data on it, but I could almost guarantee United' SAF era compared to post SAF looks way different in that regard

Really like what? Brighton/Burnley penalties?

How VAR decisions affected every Premier League club in 2020-21

 

[Prntscrn]

Really like what? Brighton/Burnley penalties?

How VAR decisions affected every Premier League club in 2020-21

I think we are claiming the same thing here? Just poorly written by me. I meant it felt like Liverpool had everyone and everything working against them. I also didn't have VAR in mind, no logic whatsoever in how it was used in the Premier League. Some of the offside decisions was depent on how shaky the VAR referees hand was

 

[Mark Stones Spleen]

Love the double arms up, like he didn't make contact with the dude.