I am sick of the whining coming out of Newcastle. Far worse fouls were committed by Newcastle than Mitchell's nudge on Willock which the ref let go.

I think what has upset Sharer and Co is the fact that the toon spent £217 million and still couldn't beat little old Palace on their own patch.

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From what I can make out from this pic is that Willock is clearly nearest to our goal line and as soon as he becomes active after receiving the ball instantly becomes offside, VAR should've been looking at that and not only the actual incident.

If I've got the offside rule wrong someone please tell me.

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Amen.

I have a soft spot for that part of the world as I did my degree there and spent many a Saturday afternoon watching the toon at home. However, that was a long time ago and the bond has withered.

Now, I am equally sick of their incessant whining which I can hear all the way down here on the Channel coast notwithstanding the wind and our builders hammering away upstairs.

We had a right to complain about the Liverpool pen last season as it smacked of interference to give Liverpool a leg-up to avoid a coronation of Man City before the last snows had melted. They do not have that right.

Seriously, Dermot Gallagher said he would have disallowed the goal so it is no obvious error. However, that has not stopped the numerous blogs calling it the worst ref decision of all time (see Mark Clattenburg reffing for Manure for worse examples) or the club shamefully lodging an official complaint and possibly managing to get the VAR ref suspended (probably taking a paid week off until the Geordie whining dies down a bit). When I read they had done that I was embarrassed for them. From a region where they pride themselves on their toughness, I do not see a club taking it like a man.

Pathetic.

Can’t believe 3 days after the match and the Toon army are still moaning about the VAR decision. Get a grip! Do they really need to focus so much energy on that and ignore the other chances in the game they should have taken.

Toys back in the pram and move on - you’d get a lot more respect that way!

I saw that as Anderson being too slow.

The continuing uproar about the decision is beyond belief. It was a reasonable decision which can be debated - not a massive error as the Toon supporters are claiming. It does not even call VAR into question. The West Ham one was a more obvious error but refs make mistakes whether we have VAR or not. In the pre-VAR days you just had to live with them. Now we can discuss them but the idea of scrapping VAR because of them is just absurd.

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