Coleman: ‘That's not a red card’

If ever there was an on-field decision to appeal this, surely, has to be it. In our perilous position we cannot afford to have three games without our lead striker (firing or misfiring). Although tonight I thought was a poor performance for him, generally regardless of scoring he pulls the play for others such as the returning Doucoure to find spaces.

I predicted when the punishment of the 10 point deduction was applied and looked like we would overcome it that the referee and VAR decisions would be just as bad as we usually experience but would increase in quantity and so it has transpired both instantly and continuously. The FA's own rules are habitually being wrongly applied in our oppositions' favour and it is scandalously transparent.

Nothing about DCL's challenge qualified under their rule definition of one that "endangers the safety of an opponent or uses excessive force or brutality." By their own definition it was not a red card and yet...

This VAR nonesense needs taking out of the game including the PGmol and replacing with an independent body controlling the integrity of the sport.

This cannot continue.

Have just got back home, so will need to have a good look at all three incidents before making a final judgment, but quite simply, VAR is totally destroying the game. It's just wrong that it seems to be VAR who are refereeing the game, and not the referee himself.

Stinks of absolute corruption and favouritism for the prick 6.

VAR has made it worse because the favoured clubs get another chance for a favourable decision.

We are absolute rock bottom with the media - a boring unfashionable club that's played boring unfashionable football yet stuck around for the past 35 years. And worse still, we are the local rivals to the most media favoured club in the land. We are absolutely a club where the bias is against not for.

If you ever watch La Liga as a neutral it doesn't take a genius to realise its rigged. As brilliant as Real and Barca are, the decisions they get are astonishing. It will only continue to get worse with VAR.

It's corruption and if Dyche takes his players off the field when the next one happens I will back him to the hilt.

Someone used the word knife edge and that's absolutely spot on.

Once I heard it was Pawson who was VAR, it came as no surprise.

Funny how he hasn't reffed us since the derby isn't it, wonder why that is?

Shower of corrupt cunts – sorry for the foul language but the game has gone now. I actually feel like packing in.

55 years of going regularly and this is what it has come to.

And I can tell you, as someone who's an Everton fan outside of the UK, it's even worse here in the wild Eastern Europe. I wrote an article some days before the Merseyside derby, pointing out how exaggerated are the Szoboszlai and Liverpool hypes in Hungary, while how much of a hated club has Everton become. It's a joke.

However, VAR is clearly long overdue a rethink. Seamus is right to highlight the slow-motion factor. If slow mo would have been applied to Beto's pen and to Hughes's high-footed challenge, then it might have been fair to use it against DCL. As it is, VAR is being used - it seems - randomly and against its own rules.

VAR should only be applied to clear and obvious errors. There should be no slow motion, and in most circumstances the ref's decision should stand. The only real use for it is for obvious offsides and off the ball red cards that the ref didn't see.

As I said, it's in the interests of Sky etc for these VAR controversies to continue, so I can't see it changing any time soon.

We are, in very simple terms, the baddies. We're the Indians to the media darling Cowboys. The commentary helps to dampen the injustice – as does the footage (ie, they don't include our marginal decisions).

Every VAR decision that goes against us, every decision not reviewed by the VAR for us, and shocking refereeing at every match we play.

If the red card is overturned, then that brings the match officials into disrepute and therefore, they have to be suspended.

Which way do the Premier League want it?

'It all averages out' and for every 'good' decision there's a corresponding 'poor' one. Yeah, right… around the middle of the bell curve it probably does… but at the far ends – maybe not so much?

Liverpool, Bruce Willis, David Dunn, The Overseer.
versus
Everton, Samuel L Jackson, Elijah Price, Mr Glass.

Alexis Mac Allister's red card following his sending-off against Bournemouth was later rescinded, and I'm pretty certain there has been another red card in the Premier League rescinded this season.

The thing is, though, that Mac Allister's was a straight red issued by the referee, which was upheld by the VAR, so was the integrity of all these officials brought into question?

The worrying thing about Calvert-Lewin's red card is that it was only after the VAR's intervention and so far no red card has been rescinded this season when it was issued after a VAR review.

Koppites are Gobshites!

Also, anyone remember a good few years ago an ambulance carrying Alan Smith to hospital after breaking a leg whilst playing for Man Utd at Anfield being bricked by RS fans?

Most despicable bunch of gobshites on this planet.

I haven't forgotten those at all but there's too many to list. I don't understand how the media overlook them.

I've come off Twitter now as I was trolled by a gobshite and called a retard because I replied to a vicious post calling us horrible fans. I simply pointed out that, whilst we're no angels, we never caused the deaths of 39 people and then fly a flag celebrating it (Steua) in the Kop.

Apparantly us shouting at Kenwright and Gordon is comparable!