We just have to be more clinical and take all power for officials to affect the outcome of our games away from them, simple as
I said at the end of last season when they were starting to give some very bad VAR calls they were trying to normalise their making plain wrong decisions as they'd had the realisation that making the right decisions prevented them from adversely and perversely affecting the outcome of games they had enjoyed so much prior to VAR
We didn't benefit from VAR last season, we weren't the beneficiary pf any bad calls, we benefitted from it being used for it's intended purpose, ensuring that the right calls were made
We were absolutely robbed, it was 3 major decisions
The 'excuse' for not sending off Pickford will be that what happened was after Virgil was offside, he was not however offside and the conversation was likely "He's not offside, but if we correct it, you have to send Pickford off"
Under the laws of the game and as we saw with Richarlison, such a challenge must still be punished even if the ref has already blown for a foul
Then, right at the death, a late late last gasp winner and it was never in a million years offside and everyone knows it and we must surely all remember that it was announced prior to the season starting that they wouldn't be ruling out goals using lines of a players hand, shoulder to a milimemtre as they frequently did last season, but Mane was never offside even if they had done that
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