Wilder's Winless Wonders vs Bruce's Boring Bastards

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

12 hours ago, OTF said:

 

I'd say he's just wanting to tread water spending as little as possible until he can sell the club. Honestly though he should be extremely worried about the current predicament.

Perfectly put.The worrying thing is,someone thought Brucey was the right man and may still think that and Ashley might agree with him.

[Alex 35093]

That applies to the vast majority of his time as owner 

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

14 hours ago, OTF said:

 

I agree that Fernandez clearly swiped it. My contention would be that Fernandez had his shoulder in front of their player the whole time and prior to him moving his arm towards the ball their player clearly pulled at his shirt. If it was the other way (Fernandez was the attacking player) they could well have reviewed it and declared it a penalty in his favour.

Good shout.Fernandez follows the line of the ball.Sharpe comes in from the left.The first infringement I notice is Sharpe gripping,tugging and holding on to the shirt of Fernandez before hand to ball .VAR clearly didn’t look at anything other than the actual ball hitting the hand and we all saw the ref not giving himself time to look at the first infringement.We therefore have to come to the conclusion that VAR asked the ref to look at the ball hitting hand and nothing else.

 

 

 

 

 

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

48 minutes ago, Alex said:

That applies to the vast majority of his time as owner 

Very true.Now if it’s the same person who thought Brucey was the right man for us,and BUJ at ANY price,never mind £40m,was the right player for us, then we are in more trouble than we think.

[RobinRobin 11281]

16 hours ago, essembeeofsunderland said:

We therefore have to come to the conclusion that VAR asked the ref to look at the ball hitting hand and nothing else.

Isn't that how it is supposed to work?

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

8 hours ago, RobinRobin said:

Isn't that how it is supposed to work?

With this incident other things were happening in such a small space of time before the handball,holding onto a shirt for example.A foul was committed just prior to the handball.VAR ,the ref,pundits and commentators never even looked/highlighted the handball.Why didn’t VAR go along with the ref’s initial decision of no pen due to the earlier shirt pulling? In slow motion time tv  footage repeatedly showed the lead up to the handball,it didn’t just show the fraction of a second when hand hit ball.We were robbed !!!!