Everton robbed of laudable point at Arsenal

With next season in mind, there has to be retrospective challenges, in the interest of fairness in the game. The club who benefit from a wrong decision, just have to put up with it.

Oliver, should be stood down for a game and made to apologise and explain his decision that smacks of bias.

Some might think throwing toys out of a pram, but could you imagine the stink it would have kicked up and make a complete mockery of the so called best league in the world.

Don't you mean he could have saved us from a massive defensive error?

Let me offer a thought... and here goes Gaynes the ref pontificating again... but referees hate, absolutely hate, being put in a position of bailing out a player's fuckup with our whistles.

Oliver as a world-class official should of course be free of such prejudices, and he definitely erred by not calling the handball, but the fact that Young had fucked up so spectacularly may well have subconsciously weighed ever so slightly on his decision.

I would almost guess that if the ball had been played to Jesus by a teammate instead of our 500-game veteran fullback, Oliver would have called the handball.

But the fact is... Oliver didn't give them the goal. Young did. Oliver could have saved his sorry ass from an idiotic, game-losing error. He chose not to.

Bias? Yeah, maybe, subconsciously. But IMO the guy who owes an apology for this loss isn't the ref. Outside of Seamus's own goal, this was the worst defensive blunder of the season.

They couldn't upset the narrative of both Man City and Arsenal winning, if West Ham had scored a late second to make it real interesting for the global market, then Arsenal only drawing would have disappointed everyone.

They tried to make the last day out to be a race but City were never going to botch up.

Sad but football now is purely bent, VAR is just hammering home how bent it really is.

Still hope Dyche does the same.
I'm already sick of City in the same way I felt about their Manc cousins when they were winning it all. Can't wait for Pep to fuck off and, now that Klopp's gone, we may have a more even playing field.

But I think you can add another contender for blunder of the season when Ashley forgot which team he was playing for when he threw the ball direct to a Villa player.

Not a single English team in plain sight.

Why the hell would any of us want any English side to prosper in Europe when all season we've had the media love-in with the corruption and levels of cheating on the pitch to gain advantages?

As far as I'm concerned, they can all fail every season in Europe.

Premier League CAF

Summed up the ineptitude of Premier League officials both on and off the pitch this season.

It can't be any worse, it just feels like what we've got offer here now isn't fit for purpose and they have proven to be completely stained in biased wool.

We can argue all we like about Oliver's decision, we know he doesn't do us any favours. Maybe it's the fact that he is a Geordie and since Pickford joined us they all seem to hate us. But Young should never have made that pass, it's as simple as that.

So we lost because of our bad play, and the Oliver decision was avoidable.

If he had had have called the handball we would have been given a free kick.

If we'd had a goal chalked off for that, we'd also be angry.. the Premier League and referees have dug themselves into such a deep hole here; I'd prefer they simplify/clarify the handball rule and tattoo it onto all the refs and VARs foreheads... well maybe not, but there have been a lot of issues with this one. Young of course "got away" with one amongst his other blunders against Forest. Swings and roundabouts. Thankfully he's re-signed for next year!?!

The Premier League are claiming the accuracy of decisions has gone up to over 90%, so unless they've engineered that stat (quite likely), generally it has improved things.

Anyhow, I'm just waiting for the £300k fine for yet another pitch invasion at Man City to be announced... yeah right.

At least this dreadful season is finished and we have financial armageddon, further points deductions and an off-season fire sale to look forward to.

NSNO.

Dyche should have decried it openly. We should not be wasting our time talking about the nuances of the decision and the merits or otherwise of the handball rule and VAR. It was a deliberate and clear handball. A foul. End of.

Like Alan Hansen's in the penalty box at Wembley in the 1984 League Cup Final.

Then again, our very then own Kevin Richardson's scoop off the line against Villa at Goodison was special!!!

Thank God we didn't need the points like the last game of last season.

We arguably finished 12th in the table but got robbed there also.

Alarmingly, we only scored 40 goals which was only 5 better than relegated Sheffield Utd. That statistic alone tells you what next season will be like without new offensive changes being implemented.

I reckon it's testament to the defence how we got so many points despite such a paltry goal return.

Whether or not the defence may be quite as stout if the magnificent Jarrad Branthwaite leaves and we will have to find out but having two imperative central defenders has improved us immensely this season witnout the haphazard errors of years gone by from the likes of Holgate and Keane.

Branthwaite will be a huge loss if he goes and Tarkowski will miss his presence and assuredness also.

I don't think there's any doubt though that we need far more going forward. The fact we only put one past Luton and Sheffield Utd who get smashed by most sides suggests as much.

Yesterday, we looked strong and more powerful than a very good Arsenal team. Not always what we enjoy watching, great skill and creativity is always prefered but still needed if anything is to be achieved.

If and when players are lost it's good signs as the work ethic can be replicated. Skill is not as easy to find but, during the poor run, the players showed the attitude many of us questioned and that starts with the manager.

We may not have the best players but give us that every match and it will be another 50-odd years before we're relegated.

It would be hard to term that 'deliberate' in my view.

The game is bent and anyone who thinks otherwise is living on another planet.

I cannot believe we are giving Young another contract. £83k a month ! Raise the money to buy / loan / free transfer in two full backs by selling Patterson and Holgate because Dyche will not play either of them next season.

Rob #20, if Young doesn't make the dumbest play possible, the ball never gets within 40 yards of Jesus' arm.

In some players, being "past it" shows up in their legs. In some, it shows up in their minds -- they lose focus and concentration. That's what has happened to Young IMO. And while I understand the decision to extend his contract -- given our desperate straits -- I think it is a decision we will regret again next year. Often.

You can see exactly what he is regardless of the age, a flying winger back in the day that's been morphed into a fullback.

Defensively he's always suspect.

I just believe that the decision to make that moronic pass in minute 89 of a tied game was astronomically more ridiculous than the decision not to bail out our choking idiot fullback with a handball call.

Who is more culpable? In my view, Young. No contest.

Yet, on here there is 'no argument' that is handball.
I won't bother arguing, if there's no argument.

I should probably just put the blue tinted glasses back on

If wanting fair play means I'm wearing "blue tinted glasses", then fine, I'll fucking well wear them.

Baring that poor handball decision we should have had a point from the weekend and (ignoring goal difference) we rightfully should have been joint 10th if not for the points deduction.

How he managed to pick the team up time and time again after the shameful treatment from the powers that be and get them back playing is incredible.

If anyone at the start of last season was offered "less attractive football" but we would finish mid table and beat Liverpool no one would complain.

Players never get the option of somehow retracting their mistakes, but VAR gives referees exactly that opportunity.

Young's pass was dumb but Oliver's ignoring a clear handball (which presumably the VAR thought it was as many pundits do) really is dumber.

Michael C, his arm is the part of the body he is leading with, and the only thing that makes contact and steers the ball past Tarkowski. You just aren't supposed to be able to use your arms that way on a football pitch unless you are a goalie in his box.

We'll never know, but most likely Arsenal would have been awarded a 98th minute penalty anyway, such was the strong stench of fish coming from the direction of Mr Oliver.

I'm not letting it spoil the pride in our battle this season, not many clubs and fans would have faced up to the shower of shite thrown at us over the last 2/3 years, many would have folded before now.

Whatever is around the corner (or no matter how many wheels are left on Mosh's EFC clown car) a big UTFT from me.

Well done. Dyche; well done, players; well done, match-going fans; well done, Lyndon and Michael; well done ToffeeWebbers.

The bigger the game,the bigger the impact,other teams would follow our lead.

Another Everton first!... greatest league in the world?... really!... The team that won it still face 115 charges of P&S rules,the promoted teams all went back down,handball rule is a farce,the offside rule is still pathetic as play goes on thus players still risk injury and most fans seem to hate VAR and the time it takes too and simply takes that explosive joy that comes from your lads hitting the back of the net.

On top of all that,the pointless F.A are still trying to ruin the most beautiful Cup competition the world has ever seen...the fans need to find their voice and simply must fight back to end this fucking madness or the game will soon be gone for good!!

He has taken over £200 million in loans off them which probably are conditional on the purchase being completed.

The Oligarch has met some chancers since he decided to purchase Everton. He must fucking hate us.

I can see coaching now underway of how to "lean your body into the path of a ball" using arms if you can.

Ridiculous… he knew exactly what he did... so did the league. In context as the league title could have been riding on it, it was a justifiable error that promoted the Premier League. But can you imagine if Man City had lost the league to Arsenal on that goal?

If we are to keep VAR, then let these referees speak so they can build up a consistency with regards their subjectively.

We all know the decisions that go against us invariably wouldn't if it was a big team.

Unconscious bias, pressure not to look stupid, or just plain £bent...