Who the heck is George?

Fulham have bought 1 player - a goalie for £400,000 - No wonder Silva is doing his nut.

Marco doing it again at Chelsea.

What crap, Chalobah couldn't get to the ball and stood too close.

A travesty if this gets ruled off. VAR acting for the Big Clubs again.

Accidental, surely.

It is a shame that goal is disallowed. Terrible decision!

Disgraceful call, about time referees stood by their decisions.

That's why the ref ruled it out.

I love the game but hate everything else about it, from commentary, pundits, corruption, shite refs, var etc… they’ve killed the game.

What a fucking Sly Six homer — and after Jaoa Pedro controls the ball with his hand!

Utterly contemptible.

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.

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

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

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

You're playing against 15 men with the officials never going against the favoured teams.

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.

There would be riots every week.

All we have now is surgical dissection of every minute detail. It's bullshit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Its the VAR officials who are the problem.

Definitely a shirt pull, definitely stupid, but because there was no real danger and the shirt pull started outside the area, the decision to award a penalty didn’t make sense, and would have seen a free kick awarded to most teams, but not every team.

I just hope Everton improve, (otherwise I might just stop watching top level football altogether) because we have conceded two penalties in consecutive league games before today, for very similar subjective decisions, that would have surely resulted in us getting a penalty today, if we’d had a different referee?

IT’S BLACK AND WHITE - DON’T TRY TO HIDE IT🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Did you know that in part, clubs pay for VAR? And some of the gate receipts are even used to cover the costs, so not only do the vast majority of fans appear to hate it, we fucking pay for it!

VAR as it is, cannot work, will not work, as long as its based on another persons interpretation. It will always lead to accusations of corruption, bias or incompetence. All of which are subjective by players, managers and fans.

It cannot be allowed to continue in its present guise, it should be significantly reworked or ditched entirely. Such is the random expertise of a subjective official against another, it will never be successful. There is no case for continuance of VAR in its present guise. It has to be left to officials on the field of play, at least there is one subjective interpretation, not two or three..

We tried it, adapted it, changed it.. it doesn't work. End it.

The pundits used to say before VAR that bad refereeing decisions would even themselves out over the course of a season. We all know that's a load of rubbish. Refs can be swayed by the protestations of the players, the noisy crowd and the risk of upsetting high profile managers like Ferguson. They even named "Fergie time" after him. How many of the those strikers who played on the edge of offside got away with offside goals?

As far as I'm concerned modern day refs need all the tech help they can get. Goal line technology, VAR cause me no problem at all. VAR gets the vast majority of decisions correct. But we don't hear about that. The only problem VAR has is that it has a human element in it. Humans make mistakes. But you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater just to solve that. It's pros outweigh its cons and it gives the lesser clubs a better chance of getting fair decisions against the "rich" clubs since we can see the evidence with our own eyes.

Yes, massive blunders were committed in the past but they were human errors. Now every goal is studied from every possible angle, and in Slo-Mo to boot. Everything looks worse in slow motion.

If this is the future, let's get rid of match day officials and let AI, or a 15-year-old whizz kid in his bedroom, do the officiating.

Subconscious bias is also involved in a lot of these decisions. They have to protect the product, don't they?

Football is about the “moment”: half the enjoyment is arguing about decisions after the match over a few pints. Some of the decisions in the few weeks this season have been horrendous.
The Fulham decision yesterday was a disgrace.

We have to scrap this shite and get back to the footy we know.

I'm still convinced if a Sky 6 team score the goal that Fulham had chalked off, it stands. As it was against one of them, it's ruled out. Even Chelsea fans said it was a goal – but easy to say when you've won.

16 added minutes that game, with no significant injuries.

The game is quickly dying.

Haaland with two uncharacteristically weak shots.

Lots of boring disciplined Giuardola backpassing shite going on, boring the pants off me. Play it forward!!!

88 goals in 100 Premier League appearances.

Is the other game any better?

Hope we get through tomorrow without his name popping up.

Aina summed up the modern, robotic footballer today. With seconds to go he's on the edge of the WHU area, rather then putting the ball into the box he keeps hold of it looking for a square pass until the ref blows time. Absolutely pathetic.

Posted on MotD socials. Genuine question: do these guys now have the power to over-rule the on-field referee? I know they are referees also, but this looks wrong?

The ball was going to hit smack in the side of the face!

How many more?

Good kick from some old bloke called Milner... er, Game On?

Or "Watch and Wait for the deliberate ref/VAR decision that will give the game to Shitty City".

Not many players I like but he is good.

Nuno, beware of Greeks bringing gifts

Amorim has the same issue. Whatever Rashford's, Garnacho's and Sancho's limitations, freezing them out, publicly questioning their attitude – thus making them unsellable – is insane.

I was really hoping that after spending hundreds of millions, they'd be really good, but sadly, they're shit.

50% of them will result in a VAR penalty.

It's no consolation to Fulham that the PGMOL recognise the error in ruling that goal out.

Glad that Pep seems to have been found out (but still wouldn't rule them out), bit more excitement please.

True. City are as Dull as dishwater. Pep has become what the highly successful tend to become, believing he is a demi god where he can do no wrong and it's all about him. He used to inspire, now he intimidates negatively.

Rob 87

Take VAR out of the refereeing gambit entirely. Anyone can learn the few uses it's needed for and the PGMOL have fucked it up beyond believability. When led by the World Cup Final Howler and all time shit referee Webb, the quality beneath is bound to reflect and suffer.

Yesterday's game should be voided and replayed.

Bit rich coming from him!

All these games are overhyped.

Not even a VAR check.

But, instead of driving into the box and shooting or crossing, he stopped about 30 yards out and passed sideways. In seconds the ball was with the centre-back and Liverpool were back in shape.

And the only time Liverpool looked like scoring was when Arsenal were fannying around at the back.

Ridiculous.

I predicted 0-0 in my Super 6 – going against the ‘big game hype'.

What a pile of crap this is. I'm glad I don't pay to watch this shite.

The ball hits Konate on the arm, but not given.

Of course no pen!!

That's enough excitement as there is feck all at Mordor.

Kerkez – Ndiaye's Pidgeon?

Imagine if either side had a player of the quality of Grealish.

How shite does Anfield look now we've all been to orseen The Hill Dickinson Stadium on matchday?!

This City Is Ours.

UTFT!!!

I'm going for 90+6'.

Like his mentor, Pep, he wants to bore everyone to death with his passing obsession.

Looking ominous again FFS.

Satan alive and well at Mordor.

Sponsored by Tampax.

Jammy c***s.

Rucking fedshite. Their pact with the devil strong as ever.

Van Dick is still the biggest whinger, and gets away with it, from every referee.

Here’s the weird thing though: watching us play so well has got me hungry to watch more football. Even that bunch of c****s.

UTFT!!!

Window closes tomorrow I think?

Strongest rumour seems to be Soucek.

Can Harrison Armstrong do a Lewis-Skelly and switch to fullback? He’s got a lot of the right attributes?

Liverpool aren't great but they'll win it again probably quite comfortably because the challengers are pretenders and City are declining year by year.

Give me the days of Manchester United, Arsenal of the Wenger era and Chelsea all going at it hammer and tong or the Blackburn/Newcastle v Man United title races of the mid 90's, at least that was a tussle.

VAR will ensure Liverpool win most games but regardless, they just have better squads than the other two.

Villa blew all their cash on wages for Rashford and Ascencio trying for CL. Came up short, had to sell youngsters to balance the book now they’ve just an ageing team.

and Mings back in the team! It’s all going tits up.

It’s a cautionary tale about how hard it is even for a big club to compete post PSR. City and Chelsea spent unfettered for years, now Villa, Newcastle reach a certain level then it’s a glass ceiling. They can’t even rely on a good youth system as City and Chelsea already invested fortunes on that to Hoover up every half decent kid in the country. Obviously I’m not lamenting Villa’s decline as it improves our chances. But it’s also an indicator of what lays ahead for us in the absence of some kind of HK style miracle transformation of us into the best in Europe overnight. just getting 4/5 doesn’t enable you to close the gap.

Worth a punt?

I wouldn’t be surprised if McNeil joins Chermiti in leaving the club. A few more quid for the January window

I suppose reassuring is the wrong word, because there’s nothing reassuring about these current PSR RULES, for any club, who want to try and start competing with and possibly trying to overtake the best teams, because these current rules, only seem to be there, to protect the status-quo.

PSG, knocked three English clubs out of Europe last season, and the team who gave them their hardest games was definitely Aston Villa. I expected Villa, to kick on, just as I expected the Newcastle team, that absolutely bullied Liverpool at Wembley, in the carabao cup final, to push on, and this is why I think it’s clear to see, that these current PSR rules, are making it virtually impossible.

Next up a trip to Merseyside. We all know that if it was GP that is 3 points in the bag for Villa. Has our fortunes changed now it is BMD/HDS?

Villa - to be fair - had a rare opportunity and took it. They ran an outstanding PSG side immensely close but like everyone else fell short. They will pay for it for a few seasons now as they have to sell and rebuild. I don't call that stupidity (in the same way as us - and probably Man Utd and West Ham) - I call it brave / ambitious. What's the glory in finishing 7th or even 4th for a few seasons when you have a sniff of winning the Champions League. Okay, they might drop down to about 12th this season but they should be okay. Their fans won't like it - and will blame PSR and probably Emery too before too long. But their fans would also have been disgusted if they just threw in the towel in the Champions League last season.

I think this is a formation that would probably suit our own squad the most right now, which is why I’m hoping that alongside a good attacking fullback, we also sign a disciplined, defensive midfielder.