The state of officiating and the oversight it has for the best league in the world, is atrocious.
Wolves gotta come out with a statement or something. They’ve been shafted the most this season it seems.
Oh god you’re not even being sarcastic are you
This was such a massive, brutal mistake, with zero opportunity for Wolves to recover. Horrible to watch.
No one has borne the brunt of ref / VAR mistakes like Wolves across multiple seasons now, and no other club even comes close. Anyone frustrated with the state of refereeing etc. should be talking about Wolves.
PGMOL sends our apology letters before the matches, and we open them after each match. It’s a great system.
Good process
Imagine that this was a “big 6 team”. The outrage would be 24/7. I don’t know how wolves fans haven’t lost their minds
We have. You should see our subreddit lol
Maybe this means Sheffield United can take the curse of Man Utd…or does it just spread from Wolves to everyone they touch
The main issue with this is that it’s the *exact* same mistake twice in a week. There are no learnings, no improvement, and no changes. They tie themselves in knots to support on-field decisions at the cost of making the wrong decision. All it does is take away what little trust and respect the referees had before.
I want VAR to work because it has the potential for good in the game. As it is, the implementation has meant no one has a clue what the handball rule is, and the only consistency is that VAR gets something glaringly wrong every single week.
Something has to change, and soon.
Are Wolves the most screwed-over team in the league this year? They did not get an obvious penalty when Onana assaulted their player in the box, and now gave up a penalty that wasn’t - with both cases costing them points. I don’t really care about them one way or another as a team, but I hope they stay up just because it would suck to be relegated with this kind of ref incompetence as the cause.
There’s also the Newcastle penalty and the Luton penalty
The panel got one right amazing.
Sorry to Wolves and their fans though. At the rate you are getting bad decisions I am really not sure its going to even out for you.
Now who is gonna check if the decision of Premier League Independent Key Match Incidents Panel is correct or not?
Dont get the point of these post match analysis. Might as well get these people in the VAR room to get the immediate correct decisions. Post match clarification means fuck all
Where’s the apology though
I usually hate the conspiracy theory of referees deliberately sabotage a team. But at this error rate it truly feels like the PL referees are conspiring against Wolves
So we have refs, VAR, and multiple panels that don’t seem to ever agree? How about we go back to just refs and make this a game again? And ffs stop arguing with and putting down refs. It’s gotten out of hand.
This is such an unsatisfying way to consume football, with every ruling analyzed so forensically. Used to be 1. there wasn’t tremendous camera work to be able to replay decisions and 2. a culture of “just get on with it.” I miss that.
a culture of “just get on with it.”
No there wasn’t. This is a complete romanticisation. The reason VAR was brought in the first place was because of complaints over refereeing decisions. People had been calling for it for years
pgmol just trying to see how much shit they can get away with it