Man United vs Middlesbrough

If you can bring yourself to want them to win you can get a tenner at evens on United to win in 90 minutes.....

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9,433 tickets sold at 45 or 46 quid for an adult ticket.

 

75k there and they’ve just told them due to a technical problem there’s no food or drink available in the whole stadium at half time!

 

Even the United fans are singing "We want Conway out!"

 

How the flying f*** have they got VAR so wrong?

 

And how have sky completely missed the point? Just because there is a specific rule stating that any time the ball touches the hand immediately before a goal is scored it's a foul that doesn't mean that handball doesn't still exist generally speaking.

If a midfielder catches the ball in the centre circles, carries it to the penalty spot, puts it down and takes a couple of touches then blasts it past the stunned keeper sky seem to reckon thats no longer handball as it wasn't immediately before a goal it was two touches before a goal so is fine.

 

I've just visited BBC sport to see what score is and noticed Man Utd have 2 keepers on the bench. How weird is that?

 

Games on ITV.

 

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Bonkers that the goal was allowed to stand especially with VAR. That team on their home ground should have still beaten lower league opposition easily though. Credit to Wilder and his team.

 

I'm not sure I understand the rules of the game anymore. Feels like hardly a season goes by without something else is changed. Once upon a time, the only tricky bit was explaining the offside rule - and that was easily sorted out with the assistance of a cruet set.

 

Some cracking pens there! But wtf was the ref playing at holding things up every kick to lecture the keepers he must surely have just been repeating himself!

 

Good shoot out that. I watched it on hesgoal as the link had Clive Tyldesley on commentary. Some great pens and some poor keeping like when the Boro keeper let the Mctominay effort go under him and Henderson who couldn't be bothered to move for the majority of them

 

I was wondering that. It's not like the rules changed between penalties or anything.

I liked the Boro keeper celebrating like he'd just saved 3 penalities and everyone trying to hug him as he ran round the pitch. He'd had just let 7? Penalties in and hadn't even saved the me that won the game. Got lucky that they blasted it into the upper tier.

 

Gosh! I hope there were no fatalities!

 

I love the fact that you watched it on Hesgoal when it was on ITV.

 

It was better than listening to Sam Matterface.

 

Mic drop

 

You've got a point!

 

They didn't get it wrong. It seems the rule on handball has reverted to what it was for decades i.e. that only deliberate handball constitutes a foul. The only exception is that a goal scored directly by use of the hand is ruled out, irrespective of whether it was intentional handball or not. Watmore's handball did not put the ball in the net and in the opinion of the referee and the VAR official it was unintentional.