Was never a penalty but at 3-0 the manager should be making some changes to make sure no comeback happens. Makes for good entertainment for the neutrals at least.
Letter of the law it was, but the law is an ass! Not complaining though, and nor are the thousands of Cov fans!
I dont think that arm was in an unnatural position. Wasn't any more unnatural than Grealish's yesterday which wasn't given. Would be amusing if Coventry got a winner now.
Poor/ref couldn't win there. Had they over ruled that can you imagine the headlines they'd get but yes wasn't the most obvious. But stlll doesn’t excuse the Man U collapse .
Ah balls, the absolute worst way to lose, well, apart from getting humiliated 6-0 in front of millions...
Absolute no shame for Coventry, did the Championship proud today. Hold their heads up high tonight. Manure were awful second half and Coventry were brilliant. No VAR that goal counts, and Coventry go through. Lovely, another boring Manchester final which will be just as one sided as last time.
I genuinely just hate football, at this point. VAR needs to get in the ******* bin and stop destroying the game so that they can give offsides for an inch difference.
VAR isn’t the problem with offsides, it’s the rules. He was what half an inch offside? Does that give him an advantage in that situation? No.
They will probably bring it into the Champ next season Nath just to make you feel a little bit better.
It's been in the rules, in one way or another, for a century, and until the advent of VAR, 99.9% of people would accept a toenail being offside, VAR is simply answering the questions that nobody was ever asking
Presumably every goalkeeper will be booked in every penalty shoot out until the rules change now then?
Exactly this. We don't need this ******** ruining moments the way it does because someone was allegedly an inch offside. It's absolutely ridiculous and I don't see how anyone could think it's in any way a positive thing for the spectacle of the game. Compared to 20 years ago the sport is just garbage.
At the end of a week that has shown English football at its worst, that really is the outcome the top echelon of the game deserves. A hollow victory by a rubbish team setting up an unwatchable final that appeals only to marketing people and other corporate dullards.
Btw, the reforms to the FA Cup are yet another attack against English football as we know it. 20 clubs making a decision on behalf of 1000s of others all the way down to grassroots. The arrogance of the Premier League really is something else.
What a woeful sport it has become. Moments like Coventry's 'winner' should be what it is about. Instead, self righteous pricks like Gary Lineker prattled on for years about getting VAR and look what it has done to the game. No wonder none league football is on the up.
I think losing on pens is worse than 6-0.. but I was hoping our 6-0 record may be challenged in the final. So Coventry going out keeps that hope alive.
And he will be the first complaining about it too now I bet ! Trouble is they all thought it would bring perfection and every decision made was going to be the same with no debating points. When in fact there is more than ever now.
VAR has destroyed the greatest ever comeback and for something everyone would have accepted as a good goal pre var.
Yes but they would have poured over it on TV and then asked Man U related people if they thought it was offside etc.
Truly shows the current state of the game when the referees are criticised for getting a decision right.
Goal line technology was introduced to stop the injustice of the Lampard goal etc It works and doesn't interfere with the flow or enjoyment of the game VAR was introduced to stop Thierry Henry playing basketball in Ireland's penalty area . Incidents such as this are few and far between but the cost of VAR is huge so to show that it is worth the outlay VAR is used to determine offsides with no grey area at all . If your kneecap is off then you are off . Hey guys look it works ! Today's events were always going to happen Maybe this is the catalyst for the removal of VAR until common sense can prevail ?
I have no issues with the concept of VAR and what it should do. It's just a video review system that provides replays of incidents from all available angles. It's the way those in charge have decided to use it that makes no sense and infuriates supporters with their forensic scrutiny of every decision in unnecessary detail. It should be there to do what it was originally brought in to cricket for - eliminate the howler. The blatant, 5 yard offside that is inexplicably missed, the Henry handball, the hand of God, Clive Allen v Coventry, Andy Gray v Steve Sherwood, Ian Rush v Coton and of course Reading's ghost goal. There's no advantage of being offside by an inch which negates the usual comeback from officials of 'offside is offside, doesn't matter if it's 10 yards or an inch'. Utter nonsense. Of course it matters - if you're 10 yards ahead of play, you've gained a huge unfair advantage. If you're such a tiny amount 'offside' that it can only be detected by computerised technology, you've gained zero advantage. And by using it just to rule out the howler, the decisions could be made in <30 seconds.
Semi automated offside calls might make a difference in the quality and consistency of the decision making?
According to the social media sages they should bring back the daylight offside rule that never actually existed.
