I never escaped another cut when I was newly born - no skin off my nose.But let's not turn this into a Willo thread.

Returning to Grealish, the A,Villa chap claimed he was the most fouled player in the PL - after 4 games !!
If a player keeps going to ground on a regular basis this can influence referees into awarding free kicks.
'Bellyflop' Grealish never fooled the referee on this occasion.

Extremely depressing and somewhat bizarre post in my opinion.

When I watched the incident on MOTD (I had left just before 90 mins to catch train) I thought we were very fortunate. In hindsight however, I don't think the ref has bottled it at all and neither has the VAR team.

Zaha makes contact with him outside of the box and even so would be a very soft FK as he is not going down from it and carries on, more importantly Cahill makes no contact with Grealish and despite passing the ball and being on his feet he clearly throws himself to the floor in the most dramatic of fashions, presumably thinking a pen is on the cards. He therefore gambled with trying to win a penalty and has been rightly penalised for it. Worse still, he has robbed his team and team mate of a goal.

I am obviously going to have some bias however I have acknowledged Zaha's guilt of playing to much for a pen before and even in situations where he should have stayed on his feet or done something with the ball. If the shoe were on the other foot, I'd be fuming with Wilf once again and have to stomach that the decision is probably correct.

Very true it a different decision could easily of been given however that is not the case and the ref got it right. Grealish attempted to cheat as many players do every week and ballsed up everything for everyone in claret and blue that day. Also massively over-hyped, was crap in PL before and had a half decent season in championship, do not get too excited.

With regards to luck, in comes in and out numerous times over the courses of matches and whos to say what will happen in forthcoming fixtures.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

I could understand a free-kick being given for the Zaha touch to the back but never a penalty. The ref had a very good view.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

For me the main reason that Jenas (a past footballer of course) got so annoyed/worked up was the suggestion that a dive took place.

The pyramid to beat all pyramids!!

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Find out what team is in which division, eg which division is Coppull United in?

No, the majority would all realise how lucky we were to have not been four nil down.

This post has been merged from a topic called 'VAR so far...' by bexleydave

I couldn’t see if there was anything posted on this, but we have had a few games to get used to the system and at the moment the decisions seem to have gone our way. You can bet your life we will be on the wrong end of one soon, but what’s everyone’s feeling, personally I don’t like it, the winner against West Ham took way to long to be decided?

I thought the goal looked on side and Jordon Ayew certainly did, that linesman was bang in line and flagged due to West Ham fan pressure behind him....