Dominic Calvert-Lewin

[Audrey Horne]

Can we get an explanation from the ref now please?

I want to know why, after viewing the tackle from about 2m away, head on and deeming it not even worthy of a yellow or a foul...he can change his mind so drastically after less than 5 mins.

Pathetic.

[Escalator]

I genuinely didn't think they'd overturn this and admit they made a mistake.

Happy about it though, DCL hat trick vs Villa incoming

I think this is the reason.

“Consequently, there can be a conflict where the Premier League is looking purely in commercial terms and the FA is concerned with maintaining the integrity of the game in England.”

The appeals panel were FA !

[Escalator]

What about poor Clyne though, he barely survived the incident...

Of course retrospective punishment for cheating to get a player sent off won't happen, but there needs to be some incentive for players to not simulate injury in order to gain an advantage.

Pray for Clyne !

Originally Posted by PeterH View Post
Feck me.

Can we counter appeal? It could have caused serious injury, and what happens if Clyne is not fit to play our next game because of it.

The appeal commission have not backed the VAR officials or the ref. Isn't that bringing the game into disrepute.

Palace need to make so much more of a fuss about things. Trouble is we haven't anyone in punditry, comments, media or anything to get our grievances out there.

[777Kidnappings]

I think the issue for me is that it's a clear and obvious misuse of VAR.
The whole process is just odd. I'm not sure how they decide between VAR making the decision or calling the ref over. Surely if VAR call the ref over then they aren't sure its clear and obvious. For me the ref should come over every time. Be given all the angles and allowed to make the decision on their own. The calling him over and deciding it needs changing 99% of the time is a pointless process


Ultimately it wasn't a clear and obvious mistake or anything close to it so why is VAR involved. The fa statement is very basic. Someone should at least explain how its going so wrong

[AjaxAndy]

Just because it wasn't a red doesn't automatically mean the other player cheated. This type of thinking is how you get 90% of responses to tweets about suspected rapists not getting found guilty being dickheads saying 'lock up the lying bitch'.

It's a bit of a weird comparison, especially when Clyne stayed down for several minutes to ensure the 'contact' was noted and went to VAR.

He wasn't hurt, there wasn't enough contact or force and to stay down for as long as he did prolapsed clutching his leg is the definition of simulation and cheating to gain an advantage.

[NickNack]

It's a bit of a weird comparison, especially when Clyne stayed down for several minutes to ensure the 'contact' was noted and went to VAR.

He wasn't hurt, there wasn't enough contact or force and to stay down for as long as he did prolapsed clutching his leg is the definition of simulation and cheating to gain an advantage.

Taught by the best club in the business at that kind of thing wasn’t he?

[Stumpy]

Can we get an explanation from the ref now please?

I want to know why, after viewing the tackle from about 2m away, head on and deeming it not even worthy of a yellow or a foul...he can change his mind so drastically after less than 5 mins.

Pathetic.

Exactly liz
This is what pisses me off more than anything.
That decision on thursday was a disgrace, not a single person i've talked to,pundit or reporter said it was correct, not one.
Yet 2 "elite" officials thought that it was a red card.
Does Howard webb have them in to explain to him their thoughts.
I would love for them to be made to explain to all and sundry how the fuck they came to that ludicrous decision.
It really is frightening the level of incompetence these buffoons are showing week after week after week

[Paddockoldie]

Exactly liz
This is what pisses me off more than anything.
That decision on thursday was a disgrace, not a single person i've talked to,pundit or reporter said it was correct, not one.
Yet 2 "elite" officials thought that it was a red card.
Does Howard webb have them in to explain to him their thoughts.
I would love for them to be made to explain to all and sundry how the fuck they came to that ludicrous decision.
It really is frightening the level of incompetence these buffoons are showing week after week after week

They should be made to explain their decision to cancel it. We should ask for it, then demand it. If they don't, then something isn't right and that needs further investigation. Accountability demands it.

[Juanito]

I think this galvanises him for the games he can now play in. Bullet header against Villa

[Shogun]

There's literally a 23 page thread on the Palace forum with half of them saying it was a clear red and talking about how it could have broken Clyne's leg.

Amazing how deluded fans can be when something happens to their own club.

[AjaxAndy]

There's literally a 23 page thread on the Palace forum with half of them saying it was a clear red and talking about how it could have broken Clyne's leg.

Amazing how deluded fans can be when something happens to their own club.

Yeah I read all their comments immediately after the match and the following day, bizarre set of human beings.

Looked at a couple of other team's forums and they were saying it's one of the worst VAR red cards if not THE worst.

Shows if you take the bias away because it's your team that's benefitted them people are far more objective.

[Escalator]

Don't know if this makes me more or less annoyed tbh

Imagine how annoyed you would be if they had scored and won the tie whilst we were down to ten men for 20 mins and then the red card was rescinded “oh sorry, we made a mistake”

[HANNU]

It really is frightening the level of incompetence these buffoons are showing week after week after week

It's not incompetence it's corruption

[TheRam]

It's not incompetence it's corruption

If it was corruption why would they overturn the decision?

[Shogun]

It's as much arrogance as it is incompetence.