Death, taxes and Manchester United getting a huge slice of luck with VAR at Old Trafford, this time against Nottingham Forest.
Back in November, United got lucky against Forest when assistant referee Akil Howson incorrectly flagged that the ball had gone out of play, with Casemiro scoring from the resulting corner.
😤How on earth has Manchester United’s second goal stood against Nottingham Forest?!
A complete and utter disgrace!
In the same game, a clear handball from Amad Diallo went unpunished, whilst in 2022/23, Harry Maguire got away with an inexplicable handball too.
Today, Bryan Mbuemo got away with a handball before Matheus Cunha slid the ball into the bottom corner, VAR deemed it an offence, but Michael Salisbury chose to stick with his on-field decision.
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Football as a game at the professional level is in the gutter, and it’s all down to the inconsistencies of VAR.
Clearly, Salisbury is keen to have United’s backing for future games and probably feels he’s gone against the grain by chalking them a goal against Forest.
Instead, he made a mockery of the VAR, which clearly saw that the goal should be ruled out, yet Salisbury went ahead and opted against his colleague’s call.
Shearer was incensed with the decision and posted on X: “Wow! That’s disgraceful. Shocking, shocking, shocking. That’s a CLEAR handball.”
Shearer is right, and much like everyone else, he too can probably see the sport of football dying before his very eyes.
Forest probably won’t be kicking up too much of a fuss with the powers that be about this, considering that, in the grand scheme of things, it probably won’t cost them much at all.
Here, it did cost the team a point and ultimately gave United the foothold in the game, shortly after Forest had equalised, Luke Shaw’s opening goal.
If Elliot Anderson is worth £120m then how much is Morgan Gibbs-White worth after that performance?
Wow! ⭐
Ultimately, it’s time for handball to be simplified once again and if there is a handball in the build-up to any goal, it simply has to be ruled out.
Something tells us that had that goal been a Forest goal at Old Trafford, Salisbury wouldn’t have been quite so courageous and would have been happy to go with VAR’s suggestion.
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