General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

Well that’s the Casemiro Partey argument settled.

Terrific effort from Ward-Prowse on the free kick. Clipped the top of the crossbar.

Walcott should have scored. United are blessed. Put through one on one with De Gea, the finish wasn't good enough.

Great save from Bazuna, that goal would have been against the run of play.

And now the woodwork has denied Southampton again. An absolute bullet of a shot from Walker-Peters smashes off the upright.

I haven't seen the incident but you forget the number one rule.

English player diving = clever.

Johnny Foreigner diving = cheating.

You don't think Bazunu catching his foot played a role?

This angle does seem to show contact. Guess VAR thought it wasn't enough for a peno or it wasn't clear and obvious?

VAR is the issue with all these things as it is so inconsistently applied. No issue with the Casemiro red as he dived in and his foot came off the ball and was dangerous. However, there are loads of other dangerous tackles that go unpunished by VAR

I wasn't watching the game and that was the first clip I seen of it

Not at all. Jiminez jumped into him. No foul.

@citytillidie Thanks a mil for including the goal difference! Thought I'd chance my arm by asking.

It adds to the visible carnage at the bottom of the table, where its literally any 3 from 9 now.

Also looks like United have been brought into it now as well so there will be 2 spots up for grabs

The level and standard of refereeing is at an absolutely shocking level. Like I actually don't know what they are looking at sometimes.

Just on the Utd Southampton match.

Casemiro red - I felt it was harsh but understand that if you tackle like that you open up the possibility of the Ref/ VAR getting involved. Yellow was fair but they seen fit for red. Fine.

Penalty 1 - Bruno gets into the box and walker peters goes to ground and goes through the player to touch the ball. Penalty.

Penalty 2 - Cross comes in and Bella Koutchap practically catches the ball in his midriff. Penalty.

Penalty 3 - Garnacho is scissor tackled from behind. Penalty. More of a case for a red here as well than the Casemiro tackle. A far more reckless tackle.

I just can't see how VAR can see fit to get involved in the Casemiro red card but completely overlook stone wall penalties and a worse tackles. It's bizarre.

It's quite worrying that professionals have the ability to rewarch these incidents over and still somehow come to these baffling conclusions.

There will be blame laid at the door of VAR but it isn't the technology that's the issue. It's the gobshites sitting in the VAR room. Total and utter incompetence.

You'd be under serious review in any other job for a performance like that