Ok I've just put the game on and the exact quote from the commentator is
"Well the VAR has already looked at it and already decided for the third time today in Ashley Young's favour"
The time elapsed from the moment CHO was tackled to the moment the commentator quoted the above was 37 seconds.
So yesterday we all called the fact there would be no audio. What's our bets today for why?
a) The VAR was unwell and had to go to the toilet
b) Technical issue in recording
c) Technical issue wiped it
c) The VAR doesn't have to communicate if he doesn't think there's an error, only when...
Also notable that Talksport moved the conversation on quickly from there. Just as Jordan tried to obsfucate yesterday and make disninhenous statements to the Forest called yesterday.
I'm hoping that we get long loud renditions of "Sky TV are w*nkers, Neville's full of shit". I'm sure even Man City fans will join in with that making it even more epic.
I don't get this, I keep hearing things like this and "you're definitely not going to get any decisions now". Well if that's the case then it proves there's bias and we're right to blow the lid of it. If they're incorruptible as we keep being told then we've got nothing to worry about.
What would massively help referees is for there to actually be 2 of them out on the pitch. We're asking non athlete blokes in their 40's to keep up with the pace of a Premier League game which gets faster year on year. I think even basketball has a couple of refs which is played on a small...
I'm pissed off with the club about the statement because it ruined my weekly Birtles Bingo game. It was mainly VAR talk so Birtles hardly had a chance to refer back.
I got one solitary "Brian Clough always used to say" and that was my lot. On the up side I've still got a fresh dobber for next...