The Official West Ham United Thread. Vol 3

[Richtea1970]

Like 2 different teams 1st and 2nd half. What a disappointment.

[sjc]

Ref has lost it this half ..

[LimmerickLad]

VAR again FFS

[TCEvo]

Crap officials again.

AV much better SH, Diaby their difference... but 3x disallowed goals & a non-given second yellow a pisstake.

Lads played well.

Edited by TCEvo on Sunday 17th March 16:30

[RichB]

TCEvo said:

3x disallowed goals

Was there a third? The BBC website only reported two. Antonio's and Soucek's

[TCEvo]

RichB said:

TCEvo said:

3x disallowed goals

Was there a third? The BBC website only reported two. Antonio's and Soucek's

Ref blew for a soft nothing on keeper, first half as Kudus put the ball in the net.

[RichB]

TCEvo said:

RichB said:

TCEvo said:

3x disallowed goals

Was there a third? The BBC website only reported two. Antonio's and Soucek's

Ref blew for a soft nothing on keeper, first half as Kudus put the ball in the net.

It get's worse...

[martinbiz]

You deserved all 3 points there. Did us a favour, although it should have been a bigger one

[sjc]

Entertaining game yesterday,lots of incident,just a shame that inevitably we couldn’t keep up the first half intensity.
Great meeting H67 and Fifty,plenty of beers and lots to talk about. Hopefully a few more can make it next time.

[sjc]

Richtea1970 said:

Can see how Antonio was ruled out as handball. From the replays didn't look like it even touched him.

We’ve certainly not got the rub with handball decisions,that’s three in four games not gone our way.

[Fifty]

Was indeed a good day - drink some beer, chat some nonsense, watch some footbal, then repeat the first two

Deffo do it again

[Hammer67]

Great day yesterday with sjc and Fifty, shame VAR got involved.

Here's to the next time.

[sjc]

Five minutes thirty seven seconds that VAR check took at the end.. the longest since VAR came in.. utter bloody madness.

[coldel]

I was watching a game the other day, could have been a UCL or similar type game, and they were doing VAR checks there and none were taking more than 30 seconds, even the big calls like penalties. I don't understand why we have such long checks, more often than not decisions are pretty obvious on the first replay you can see it within seconds.

[LimmerickLad]

sjc said:

Five minutes thirty seven seconds that VAR check took at the end.. the longest since VAR came in.. utter bloody madness.

Not a "clear and obvious error" then I would suggest and therefore the referee's onfield decision should have stood?

[coldel]

LimmerickLad said:

sjc said:

Five minutes thirty seven seconds that VAR check took at the end.. the longest since VAR came in.. utter bloody madness.

Not a "clear and obvious error" then I would suggest and therefore the referee's onfield decision should have stood?

Factual decisions are not part of the clear and obvious criteria according to the PL VAR site. So clear and obvious is applied when say there is a high foot potentially endangering an opponent vs not for an offside (it either is or it isn't).

But would agree, there is too much vagueness, I don't even see why clear and obvious is in the rules as it makes no difference.

[TCEvo]

LimmerickLad said:

sjc said:

Five minutes thirty seven seconds that VAR check took at the end.. the longest since VAR came in.. utter bloody madness.

Not a "clear and obvious error" then I would suggest and therefore the referee's onfield decision should have stood?

Yep. fking nonsense yesterday - in total there was 14 mins ET on the clock when the ref finally blew the whistle.

Said VAR was toss when it was introduced, nothing's changed to make it otherwise.

That bks does rather overlook the nonsense that we've got ourselves into though where Ben Johnson's (much as I like him) has become our go-to midfield sub.

[bad company]

sjc said:

bad company said:

Fifty said:

bad company said:

Enjoy guys, sadly I’ll still be in the USA but there in spirit.

Just leave some money behind the bar and we’ll be sure to raise a glass to you

I just put £250 behind the bar for you guys. Just tell them to charge Mr BadCo’s account, that’ll be fine.

Thanks BC, if everyone was as kind as you I could end up with a free season ticket !

Hey thanks guys. I left the money behind the bar for you but you didn’t use it so I’ll get it back.

Very nice of you all.

[Fifty]

That’s fine - the next one is on you then!

[sjc]

bad company said:

sjc said:

bad company said:

Fifty said:

bad company said:

Enjoy guys, sadly I’ll still be in the USA but there in spirit.

Just leave some money behind the bar and we’ll be sure to raise a glass to you

I just put £250 behind the bar for you guys. Just tell them to charge Mr BadCo’s account, that’ll be fine.

Thanks BC, if everyone was as kind as you I could end up with a free season ticket !

Hey thanks guys. I left the money behind the bar for you but you didn’t use it so I’ll get it back.

Very nice of you all.