varkanoid
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Because since it's been brought in that's the first time a team has ever surrounded a ref about it. The players usually go "can't have been over, his watch would've buzzed" and just get on with it. Last night they KNEW it was over. It wasn't even close. The ref knew it too, he was seen tapping the watch trying to get it to go off.
VAR is also there to overturn certain "clear & obvious" errors. They have seen withing 10 seconds that it's a goal. The referee is microphoned up to them - are you telling me that the VAR didn't say to Oliver - "that's gone in that mate, has your watch not gone off"?
For the integrity of the game alone, VAR should have intervened there.
1,000,000% that wouldn't have played out like that if it had happened in the Man City game. Not a chance whatsoever.
In the Man City game Sterling made a lunging tackle on an Arsenal player. No Arsenal player surrounded the ref to complain, the guy was in agony for some reason but there was hardly any protest. It went to VAR within 10 seconds.
Yet we see McBurnie and one other turn round straight away hands up in air saying its a goal. Several players surrounding ref saying its a goal. He just taps his ear, taps his watch and shrugs it off.
One rule for us one rule for everyone bigger.