Premier League – Matchweek 31

He's only just turned 21 last month and could be one to watch. Especially if we're in the Championship next season!!

How many Our Fathers and Hail Marys do I need to say for being glad that the keeper saved one and they scored on the counter?

In any other circumstances, you go straight to hell.

Just goes to show how shit our season has been.

You just scrapped a scab open again.

That red on Allan just makes me fume! How in the fuck is that ever, ever a red card? Unbelievable.

VAR has been abysmally implemented recently, much to the chagrin of Everton.

We get an apology, the RS or City or Chelsea get a penalty.

I don’t think it’s corrupt, I just think the officials are cowards and incompetents who apply different rules to different teams because they’re in awe of the managers and riches and celebrities of the Sky darlings

And you could see in that Newcastle game that the game was being refereed for Newcastle. It was extraordinarily biased (as was the refereeing at their place a few months ago).

Until recently I've tried to believe it's just swings and roundabouts and the impact of crowds. But the two Newcastle games have changed my view sadly.

We're not playing in a fair competition. It wouldn't surprise me to find match fixing and even performance enhancing drugs are commonplace.

"The city is big enough for two clubs, a real one and the other one.”

Actually Jurgen, it's the One Well Regarded and the other one everybody detests. The one with fans who travel and cause no problems and the other who have blood on their hands (a conveniently forgotten truth).

And I would be absolutely astonished if match-fixing were a reality, at least in England or any of the world's top leagues, for the simple reason that players and referees are too well paid and betting patterns are too easily trackable to be worth the risk of trying to fix a match. It hasn't happened anywhere in the world in what, ten years?

Likewise PED. The risk is horrendous. Onana at Ajax would have been banned for four years if his violation had been found to be intentional. That's career-shattering right there.

We have been treated extremely unfairly because we're not a big club. But I just don't buy into conspiracy theories.

I don't care about Leeds although it is worth noting that we currently have 4 games in hand on them.

You could point out the reverse of that with one club getting positive decisions all going one way and a big silver cup being awarded to them as a reward for the referees efforts helping their mates team, then again is Mike Dean that popular?

Dave #30, you're not paranoid. ESPN maintains an ongoing tracker of the VAR decisions, and this year we have been screwed over worse than any other club in the Premier League except Norwich, which was going down anyway. And we've certainly gotten the most despicable calls, particularly Allan's red and the City handball. (Top of the VAR beneficiaries this season, per ESPN, are Hammers and City.)

I just don't buy into the idea that it's about gambling and drugs. The big clubs get the calls from the refs so they can work more big club games. That's it.

Bravo the Bees. 1-4 now. Splendid.

He's probably inspired all his teammates at Brentford, but I get the impression that he wouldn't have inspired many at Everton, because most of our players must think they are better than they actually are?

Joe, I believe two of our current players may have that sort of leadership presence, but Mina can't stay healthy and Van de Beek isn't really ours.

Brentford are very lucky to have such a fantastic footballer and kudos to them for giving Eriksen the opportunity, I only wish we did.

Eriksen is a prime example of a footballer that has determination and guts, unlike most of our players.

Brentford tonk them first time of asking!

Sadly true.

There's certainly a lot of instability to be concerned about for sure. Scary how quickly a long standing large concern can be undermined by the wrong people and the wrong decisions.

Tony - some called me old fashioned and out of touch at the time (not on TW), but I never wanted the big money here, or not in the way it comes nowadays. Not that we have a say anymore.

Kenwright has pulled off a blinder getting us out of the disastrous financial mess which he and his colleagues created. But that's what he is: a chancy, self-serving spiv. He's brilliant at it, actually; he's greatly enriched himself and thrown magic dust in the eyes of all who threaten him.

Time to get lean, dump the flab.

But that's the difference between Manchester Fucking United and us.

We should at the very least make noise about it.

No comment from the VAR and even the commentator said about the second one "If it goes to the VAR, that's a red." And they say the game is unbiased.

It was always going to be ruled out, but in my opinion not a clear and obvious error. It was a foul I suppose but it also came about in a melee.

Like yourself I too think that the dice is loaded in favour of the so-called top clubs, I saw the last hour of the Liverpool vs Watford game, and although I have no doubt it was a penalty for Liverpool, I also think that if the incident had occurred in the Liverpool penalty area, VAR would have turned a blind eye to it.

I'm listening to the Manchester United vs Leicester City game and I believe that my post has been confirmed, Trevor Sinclair the former professional footballer is co-commentator and he is of the same opinion, following the Leicester City goal being disallowed.

I don't think this is the 'Beautiful Game' that Danny Blanchflower referred to.

I already fear that they will come gunning for us during the Burnley game.

And Michael, the game is good – it is officials like Mariner who are so inept as to give credence to those who call their actions corrupt. The dumbass got this one right after a prompt it seems. I am sympatheic to the claim in other instances though.

Spurs have equalised now – but if Everton were to finish above the Magpies - I'd be a very happy bloke. I think there's little chance of that happening though, regardless of the result of the match at Spurs.

Oh for some of that from our pathetic bunch of non-entities.

Dave, that was odd. I wonder how the comms really work between VAR and the ref...

There's simply been too much shady recently, to me.

There's a very simple explanation: if Arsenal had won tonight, they would have put a lot of distance between themselves and Man Utd, which may have seen United in flip-flops on Saturday. Now, Man Utd will have something to play for.

As John Lennon sang "It's easy if you try!"

Maybe you nailed it!