VAR controversy decides Manchester derby as City keep pace with Arsenal: Football Weekly
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What was the controversial VAR decision in the Manchester Derby?
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Hello and welcome to the Guardian Pro Rev Weekly. A controversial win in the Manchester Derby for City. Erling Haaland with the only goal. He looked offside, he was onside. Enzo wasn't. He really tried to head it. VAR should have just allowed it. All we want is consistency, Brian. City were better even with 10 men. Phil Foden sent off for kicking Bruno Fernandez slightly harder and slightly higher than Bruno Fernandez kicked. Him. At City's fourth win in a row to keep up with Arsenal then, who won at Sunderland, Bruno Gimmereich with a glorious goal after a David Reyes brilliant penalty save following Ezra Constant's horrific foul on Dan Ballard. Also today, Hull's brilliant start continues. A creditable point at score a lot, concede a lot, Chelsea.
A brilliant win for Ipswich away at Palace. Brighton hit five at Coventry. Lewis Dunks should be worth at least two. A huge win for Forrest at Villa and an exciting draw between Bournemouth and Brentford. Spurs, the gift that keeps on Was it Eisenhower who was president the last time they scored a goal in the Premier League? While Anfield look equally blunt as Fulham get their first point of the season. With all that, plus your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly.
on the panel today, Barry Glendening. Welcome. Hello, Max. Uh hello, Barney Roney.
Hi Max. Hi everyone. H haven't seen you since uh New York.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Thanks for coming.
Still still still doing this podcast, you guys? Yeah, we're st we'll still
seem to be doing it.
Still trotting it out.
John Bruin, hello. Hi. Yeah, I'm still here, Barney. So hi. Yeah.
All still doing it and all with that enthusiasm. Uh let's start with the Manchester Derby then. Uh Manchester United nil, Manchester City won Erling Haaland uh on the hour. And we'd like to begin obviously with the a statement from ProRef. Um we can provide clarification regarding Erling Haaland's awarded goal. Uh the on-field decision was offside. That was checked by VAR, and Erling Haaland was found to be in an onside position. In the same attack, it was established that Enzo. Fernandez did not play the ball, and therefore that makes any on offside offense subjective. However, on this occasion, the VAR did not recognise the likely impact of his position and should have recommended an on field review.
Contact has been made with Manchester United this evening to acknowledge that we deem is an error of judgment a review of the incident will take place. I mean, Barney, it is your dream to come on here and talk about VAR and I don't want to stand in the way of your dreams.
No, sorry, it was just the way you read the statement there. He d did not did not realise. Uh didn't realise. Like it's just really comical because he attempted like a pile driving, diving powerheader and uh like sort of Nat Loughhouse in nineteen fifty three and it was just a bad decis a bad mistake. I mean an inexplicable bad mistake, 'cause you're watching it thinking How's it happened? How why are you doing another apology? Um It's I I I mean I have a clear position on this. Um I just think that the referees are spooked. They're not up to it. It's really difficult. That these are people who've just been superseded by how hard it is to be bombarded with all this information. If you think about what footballers are, like they're th it's almost impossible to imagine how good a Premier League footballer is at what they do.
And the process of sifting through Yeah. They're so good at it, they process so much information, they literally run for 90 minutes. So many people must fall so that this one guy who plays for Bournemouth can exist. And when you're watching it, you just know these are the very, very best at doing this. They're sort of superhuman in in a way to you and I who play football. And do you think that looking at the referees? Do you think how could anyone have this level you don't like the game has changed around them?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What was the controversial VAR decision in the Manchester Derby?
0:00–6:22
2
How did the panel assess the impact of the VAR controversy on City’s win?
6:22–9:49
3
Why do the hosts argue that referees need more data‑wonk expertise?
9:49–18:55
4
What solutions are proposed for improving referee training and VAR use?
18:55–56:47
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