Man I’m sorry that Roy has to exchange his dignity for that piece of shit job (and club). Though it’ll make it a little more difficult to hate on Watford with him there.
Back to the VAR decisions on Sunday.
1. Turns out that the first one was on Oxlade-Chamberlain’s goal was also quite wrong. I didn’t pick up on it at the time, but Firmino (clearly offside) draws Mitchell to him, giving Ox all the time and space to control the kick and shoot. Firmino wasn’t an innocent bystander either. He jumped for the ball and didn’t miss it by much. I have no idea what Will Hughes was doing, however.
2.Though I want refs to take the time to get it right, doesn’t taking that long sort of preclude a “clear and obvious” error (on the penalty decision)?
3. It was reported that Craig Pawson both showed Kevin Friend the video starting at the moment that Jota hit Guaita (ignoring the context of him changing direction to do so) and told him that he thought Jota would have been able to control the ball *and* score, but for the contact, which is absolutely ludicrous.