Column Premier League — Matchweek 3 Michael Kenrick 30 August 2025 42comments (last) Only 6 of this weekend's 10 Premier League games are slated for broadcast live in the UK, with 4 games in the 3 pm blackout slot: Saturday 30 August 202512:30 Chelsea v Fulham — TNT Sports 1 15:00 Manchester Utd v Burnley 15:00 Sunderland v Brentford15:00 Tottenham Hotspur v Bournemouth 15:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Everton17:30 Leeds Utd v Newcastle Utd — Sky Sports Sunday 31 August 202514:00 Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester City — Sky Sports14:00 Nottingham Forest v West Ham Utd — Sky Sports16:30 Liverpool v Arsenal — Sky Sports19:00 Aston Villa v Crystal Palace — Sky Sports Reader Comments (42) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer () Michael Kenrick 1 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:37:43 Delap looking pretty lively for the Chavs in that No 9 shirt... Peter Moore 2 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:41:59 Quality player Delap. Perhaps if we were further along in our 'Project', we may have snared him. A sign of confidence that he chose the now World Champions Chelsea over us, though they were not World Champions at the time of his signing of course. Chelsea are above us in the food chain of course. We would have to reverse time 40 years to be able to reverse the pulling power of us and Chelsea sadly. Onwards and upwards now though for us! COYB. Jake FitzGerald 3 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:44:02 His hamstring's gone. Bill Gall 4 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:45:57 Looks like Delap's day is over, possible hamstring? Michael Kenrick 5 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:46:35 Oh dear, that's tough.Who the heck is George? Jack Convery 6 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:47:34 Moyesiah breathes a sigh of relief. He could have been here and done that.Fulham have bought 1 player - a goalie for £400,000 - No wonder Silva is doing his nut. Jack Convery 7 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:51:29 A cracker that. Dale Self 8 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:53:40 Good work in the midfield to release that attack. My Chelsea and Arse friends are getting on my nerves. Marco doing it again at Chelsea. What crap, Chalobah couldn't get to the ball and stood too close. Michael Kenrick 9 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:54:50 Really good goal by the 18-year-old Josh King.A travesty if this gets ruled off. VAR acting for the Big Clubs again.Accidental, surely. Michael Kenrick 10 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:56:13 What an absolute disgrace. Ajay Gopal 11 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:57:21 How was that a ‘clear and obvious error' for VAR to get involved. It is a shame that goal is disallowed. Terrible decision! Jack Convery 12 Posted 30/08/2025 at 12:58:06 Corrupt - an excuse to give a SLY SIX team a leg up Really wondering why we bother. VAR needs to go. Bill Gall 13 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:03:09 What is it, a contact or no-contact sport? It seems that the game is just getting decided by someone in a studio. Disgraceful call, about time referees stood by their decisions. Jack Convery 14 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:05:13 What the fuck is a careless tackle?That's why the ref ruled it out. Jack Convery 15 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:14:40 How close was the ref, when it happened. Chalobah cocked up and knew it. Colin Glassar 16 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:34:03 It’s becoming next to impossible to score against the sly six. Every goal is examined in minute detail, and in SLO-MO to boot, so they’ll always find an excuse to rule out a goal.I love the game but hate everything else about it, from commentary, pundits, corruption, shite refs, var etc… they’ve killed the game. Jack Convery 17 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:39:39 Colin you forgot to mention the RS, when it comes to things you hate! Colin Glassar 18 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:40:42 That’s a given, Jack. Liam Mogan 19 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:49:36 I hate VAR Michael Kenrick 20 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:50:38 And this one will be given as a penalty.What a fucking Sly Six homer — and after Jaoa Pedro controls the ball with his hand! Utterly contemptible. Jack Convery 21 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:53:56 Now a pen for CFC. Though Iwobi may have been fouled beforehand.Pundirs saying we don't know what's going on. They do but no one's got the gonads to call it out - CORRUPTION. The SLY SIX must qualify for Europe or they'll be off. Liam Mogan 22 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:54:29 I remember when I played football.Coaches were always saying 'make your silhouette bigger' 🙄Absolute nonsense. You raise your leg, your arm will naturally raise, unless you act like a penguin. It's getting boring now. Fathoming intent from slow mo and stills Eric Myles 23 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:54:50 Was obviously a penalty if ours against Leeds was Liam Mogan 24 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:56:33 That wasn't a penalty either Eric Colin Glassar 25 Posted 30/08/2025 at 13:57:04 They may as well give the sly 6 a two goal advantage before the games even start. PSR and VAR were created to protect the cartel from intruders.I still remember the John Terry goal against us after about three minutes beyond the time added on. The ref literally played on until Chelsea scored. Sickening Jack Convery 26 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:01:29 Interestingly, this is the third time in three matches VAR have ruled out a goal in Chelsea's favour but it is the first one which has done so in such controversial fashion. From BBC. James Marshall 27 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:01:58 This Chelsea game is a joke. The Fulham goal should have been given, there's no way that was a foul in the build up. 9 minutes extra time and then the penalty was ridiculous. Joao Pedro fucking handballed it first!!I hate to say it but it does feel rigged. Even Joe Cole is saying how awful the decisions have been.Football is completely ruined by VAR Ian Bennett 28 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:03:50 Ive said it before. But var is just a way to raise the bar to make it harder to beat the sly 6.You're playing against 15 men with the officials never going against the favoured teams. Jack Convery 29 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:06:00 We can get rid of VAR tomorrow. Everybody send their SKY contract back and stop watching until VAR goes. Bobby Mallon 30 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:15:12 Colin @ 25 I remember that also. I still remember the John Terry goal against us after about three minutes beyond the time added on. The ref literally played on until Chelsea scored. Sickening Jack Convery 31 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:20:02 3 pens awarded against Fulham in 3 games. That stat will never be repeated by a SLY SIX club. Andy Meighan 32 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:24:44 VAR was brought in to protect the brand, nothing else.As someone earlier pointed out, could you imagine the 6 twats getting 3 pens awarded against them in 3 successive games? Wouldn't happen. Cue us conceding our 3rd in a row today.As Colin said, love the game but hate the shite that surrounds it.Corrupt. Raymond Fox 33 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:24:57 Jack, can you imagine the moaning about wrong offside decisions and balls out of play if they did away with VAR.There would be riots every week. James Marshall 34 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:31:11 Raymond, we played for about 100 years with no VAR. I don't remember any riots, just discussion. In fact, I remember less discussion before VAR.All we have now is surgical dissection of every minute detail. It's bullshit. Rob Hooton 35 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:32:02 Jack, there's always a chance that we'll have 3 against us in 3 games today too!VAR is as bent as a nine Bob note. When Chelsea scored their second against West Ham, there was a blatant foul on a WHU defender in the buildup, but no VAR to help the non-Sly 6 clubs. Liam Mogan 36 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:32:31 VAR was brought in, in theory, to stop poor decisions and reduce subjectivity.If anything, it's made things worse, like James says. There are also other unplanned consequences – like not being able to fully celebrate when you score as you are unsure for around 50% goals if they will stand.It's absolute rubbish. Dale Self 37 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:35:28 Marco is pissed off! James Marshall 38 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:36:55 FIFA have ruined the game with VAR. It's all about sponsors and money, nothing else matters.It's about making money from the product, and we're all pawns in the game handing over our hard-earned tokens for the system.Fuck FIFA. Fuck the Premier League. Colin Glassar 39 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:38:55 Time for a manager to pull his team off the pitch to protest these biased officials? It’s so blatant them protecting their “top 6” teams. Take the hit but someone has to lead the rebellion. James Marshall 40 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:46:16 Nobody will though, Colin. It's more than their jobs are worth.FIFA's big hand has always been the devotion of supporters cursed with following a football club and the people who work in the game have their hands tied.It would be the footballing equivalent of political suicide. Remember, even the clubs voted for VAR. Bobby Mallon 41 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:49:30 Raymond 33 really riots. We had no riots before var and won't if it goes. I really don't get why teams voted for it. Kevin Naylor 42 Posted 30/08/2025 at 14:56:44 Just watched my now local team Tadley on the BBC playing in an FA Cup qualifier. 4-2, no VAR no feigning injury, a proper football game. Sadly that now gone from the top flight games. Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. How to get rid of these ads and support TW © ToffeeWeb