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

From the motd footage it looked like the assistant ref didnt connect with robertson though robertsons reaction suggested he did , hard to know with footballers. Ref should be stood down for a few games but Robertsons should also get some punishment for haranguing ref. They need to punish players for getting in the face of the officials, eventually after a few bans the player would stop doing it.

apart from City fans, dont think anyone wanted Arsenal to lose, every neutral I know want Arsenal to win it.

I know more Ipswich fans than city fans, their fanbase doesn't look like its growing as much as it should considering their success.

Not taking Qatari season ticket holders into account as that explains why they can't make the home games every second week and why the stadium looks empty. The tickets have already been sold so that explains the full house percentages we are fed...

So in all your years of watching football you have never seen players going over to the officials are HT or FT to ask about decision until today

Crazy decision he made from something that looked like a normal interaction a player would have. He should be dumped from his job for his reaction.

Mitrovic from the player pov was worse because we view what the player does as having an effect. What the official did is something we are not used to seeing. He should be sacked or demoted to championship for that. Pretty weird to be discussing what ban an official should get but it should be severe.

For what it's worth, it was the same referee and linesman today that sent off Robertson against Spurs, and then wouldn't send off Kane in the same game when he should have been. After the game, Klopp made his feelings know about that.

In a weird way the stupid thing is that the whole thing sort of changed the game in a way. Robertson couldn't tackle in the second half out of fear of being sent off for a second yellow card.

https://streamable.com/dy6hux

It really seems the relationship between players/managers and officials is getting worse since VAR was introduced. The officials are even less accountable than before it seems. The players are just sick of putting up with their incompetence and it's boiling over. Both sides are getting more angry but for me mainly it is the fault of awful referees.

The PGMOL or whatever it's called come out and apologize and that's the end of it? I don't think so. They only apologized for one incident in the Brighton game as well.

That's also true in fairness, especially about appealing vociferously. But with VAR there players and fans just don't understand how decisions can be so inconsistent from one game to the next. It's like the officials are still grading on a curve (like pre VAR) instead of individually assessing each incident in relation to the rules.

You think rugby players don't cheat ?

Is this a windup.

Do you know those lads you see in Sunday League that are pure mouth pieces and think they are hard squaring up to opponents?

Robertson is the PL equivalant of that.

The only thing that would work is making a rule that only 2 players from each team (I was gunna say one but the first player may have a ropey standard of English so I'll allow an extra one) may talk to the referee after play has been stopped.

Any additional players attempting to communicate with an official in this period will recieve an automatic yellow card.

Your take on this would be wildly different if Robertson did the same thing to the Lino.