2020/21 Premier League Discussion

Solskjær on Son Heung-min: "We shouldn’t be conned. I have to say, if my son stays down for three minutes and he needs his ten mates to help him up, he won’t get any food." #mulive [sky]

— utdreport (@utdreport) April 11, 2021

Uhhh child abuse seems like a step too far for a game

RealGunner wrote:

Solskjær on Son Heung-min: "We shouldn’t be conned. I have to say, if my son stays down for three minutes and he needs his ten mates to help him up, he won’t get any food." #mulive [sky]

— utdreport (@utdreport) April 11, 2021

thats outright brutal

Best I have seen us play all season (2nd half ofc). Top 4 secured now it seems.
Greenwood

Serious topic tho, embarrassed to see Son getting racially abused on twitter by United fans. Whatever be the reason or circumstance, absolutely no one can call him names. Hope those cnuts get identified.

RealGunner wrote:

Solskjær on Son Heung-min: "We shouldn’t be conned. I have to say, if my son stays down for three minutes and he needs his ten mates to help him up, he won’t get any food." #mulive [sky]

— utdreport (@utdreport) April 11, 2021

[Luckhurst] Mourinho: 'Sonny is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole. Because a father, you have always to feed your kids, it doesn't matter what they do. If you have to steal to feed your kids you steal. I have told Ole what I think about his comments.'

Tough road for Tottenham now, that was a must win if you're Mourinho and Tottenham. 6 points behind with 7 games to go. The run in for Spurs isn't SUPER difficult, but not easy. Still have Everton, Leicester, Wolves, Aston Villa, none of which are guaranteed points

M99 wrote:

had to LOL

Mou developing yet another rivalry and spat with a big rival What an entertaining clown He used to be cool and successful though, nowadays he cant win anything, but at least hes still entertaining

Due to VAR being unable to "draw a definitive line" because of the camera's position, they stuck with the original on-field decision.

Meaning West Brom's early 'goal' was ruled out...#WBASOU pic.twitter.com/ghefug1Acx

— Amazon Prime Video Sport (@primevideosport) April 12, 2021

VAR usage gets worse every week.

Diange, the player between the no.5 and Southampton defender, is the one to score, and is quite clearly onside from this angle. But apparently this wasn't enough to overturn to the on-field decision of offside.

Goes to show, VAR cannot make-up for pure incompetence.

Jay29 wrote:

Due to VAR being unable to "draw a definitive line" because of the camera's position, they stuck with the original on-field decision.

Meaning West Brom's early 'goal' was ruled out...#WBASOU pic.twitter.com/ghefug1Acx

— Amazon Prime Video Sport (@primevideosport) April 12, 2021

VAR usage gets worse every week.

Diange, the player between the no.5 and Southampton defender, is the one to score, and is quite clearly onside from this angle. But apparently this wasn't enough to overturn to the on-field decision of offside.

Goes to show, VAR cannot make-up for pure incompetence.

I've repeatedly had the feeling that they don't mind sabotaging VAR
Might it be that the refs are hoping ot get rid of it again?

pathetic

Hapless_Hans wrote:I've repeatedly had the feeling that they don't mind sabotaging VAR
Might it be that the refs are hoping ot get rid of it again?

Maybe? I don't see how this does the refs any favours, though. Them acting like a bunch of idiots isn't going to convince people the tech is evil... it's just going to reinforce they're idiots.

Still remember this one ref who glanced at the VAR monitor for 2 seconds and didnt even see the challenge he was supposed to decide on

Myesyats wrote:Still remember this one ref who glanced at the VAR monitor for 2 seconds and didnt even see the challenge he was supposed to decide on

Trent vs Everton i think

so much for that Hasenhutl/Soton hype from a few months ago

Brighton need to get one good attacker and they will manage top 10 easily.

Winter is Coming wrote:

RealGunner wrote:

Solskjær on Son Heung-min: "We shouldn’t be conned. I have to say, if my son stays down for three minutes and he needs his ten mates to help him up, he won’t get any food." #mulive [sky]

— utdreport (@utdreport) April 11, 2021

[Luckhurst] Mourinho: 'Sonny is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole. Because a father, you have always to feed your kids, it doesn't matter what they do. If you have to steal to feed your kids you steal. I have told Ole what I think about his comments.'

I read this response interview from Mourinho, damn it gets personal.

RealGunner wrote:

Solskjær on Son Heung-min: "We shouldn’t be conned. I have to say, if my son stays down for three minutes and he needs his ten mates to help him up, he won’t get any food." #mulive [sky]

— utdreport (@utdreport) April 11, 2021

I find this outrage from him and a lot of pundits very cringe tbh. Since when can you slap someone in the face and have it not be a foul? It’s not like it was a red card. No ones saying it’s a huge crime, but it’s clearly a foul.

Cruijf wrote:

RealGunner wrote:

Solskjær on Son Heung-min: "We shouldn’t be conned. I have to say, if my son stays down for three minutes and he needs his ten mates to help him up, he won’t get any food." #mulive [sky]

— utdreport (@utdreport) April 11, 2021

I find this outrage from him and a lot of pundits very cringe tbh. Since when can you slap someone in the face and have it not be a foul? It’s not like it was a red card. No ones saying it’s a huge crime, but it’s clearly a foul.

Totally agree. I find it the opinions on this really weird. Hits out with his hand, catches Son clearly in the face. It's a foul, not a red of course, but could well have been a second yellow.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting the situation, but I think what some people had an issue with, was how long Son stayed down and stalled the play for, not any claim that playacting was involved to force a foul out of nothing.

Thimmy wrote:Maybe I'm misinterpreting the situation, but I think what some people had an issue with, was how long Son stayed down and stalled the play for, not any claim that playacting was involved to force a foul out of nothing.

This for me at least. A lot of the pundits were saying it was never a foul, which I disagree with.

never a foul and Mou is feigning outrage over the comments to deflect from him having his worst season as a manager

It's a foul but in such a technical way that it's kinda ridiculous. Yes, hand to face is a foul but from any angle, it was a very slight graze to face.

Why I don't agree with the decision is that refs need to use their "street sense" in these type of situations. Son only went down due to the fact he was never catching up to Scotty as the latter left him for dead leaving his team in a pretty bad spot.

After his failed attempt at grabbing (to which led to Scotty's trailing arm ironically), he got the slightest touch to face and went down. He was trying to buy a free kick and the ref was more than willing to sell it to him.

It's hard these days because most of these guys were taught through their entire youth years to use their arms and hands to get position or block players...  this was never a foul 5-10 years ago.  But it is now.  It's similar to a high foot.

But I agree doc... there's a pussification of football going on. Context has to count for something.

I obviously dont feel it was a legit foul.

But once the ref saw Mctom's hand in the face of Son, it was going to be ruled out. I wasnt at all surprised by the decision.

Again, I dont agree with it but I think based on how these decisions are being made it wasnt that surprising.

Situations like these have been deemed to be fouls so many times in recent years, that no one should be surprised. We can all argue that it shouldn't be, but like Sports alluded to, that's just how things are in the modern game.