FA Cup 23/24 Thread

swordfish said:

North Lower Neil said:

It was offside, clearly.

And I didn't think it was a penalty.

Just a shame though, would have been good to see Coventry win, means so much more to the Championship side.

So why was VAR required? It clearly wasn't clear was it, hence the need for VAR.

'Clearly' was possibly a bad choice of words!!  I mean now we've seen the lines, yes it wasn't offside by much, but now it's been looked at it was offside. 

I'm no great fan of VAR, but if you're going to use it for offsides, then it has to be used like this.

And lets face it, if it had been a Man U winning goal disallowed because Diallo was 5cm offside, would people have been so upset?

ct_addick said:

My mate over here in Connecticut is a big Cov fan and flew home for the game….feeling for him right now…..Utd are terrible and the manager will be fired 

Gary Neville made a good point on Sky earlier. He pointed to the fact that since INEOS have gone in they've basically cleared out most other senior positions. New CEO, new technical director, trying to get Dan Ashworth as sporting director. So it would be pretty bizarre to do all that and then off the back of awful performances and not qualifying for the champions league, go and stick with the same manager.

The semis should never be at Wembley either.

Jackson 5 and the Three degrees with covers of abide by me and the national anthem. 

Fuck me this is boring 

Get in 

GTF in

Probably what the game needs, let's see how City respond.

Wow, didn't see this coming.

Wow.  Where have this United been all season?

Got a tenner on United to win 2-0 at 40/1 so I'll be in the unenviable position of spending the whole of second half shouting "don't do anything!" at the telly.

O-Randy-Hunt said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

SELR_addicks said:

Off_it said:

SELR_addicks said:

"A new system where the amount of advantage an attacker gets is based on how romantic the goal is."

It was offside. Sucks, but it was. 

Congratulations.

Now, about that Arsenal handball that wasn't given when he picked the ball up in the area? Where was VAR then?

"Hey United, we can see it's offside but we're deciding to give the goal because 'the magic of the cup'. Hope you understand."

Yeah you're absolutely right. This was definitely 'clear and obvious' wasn't it?

Having to zoom x100 to check that the guy potentially had his little toenail offside.

My god that is pathetic. And to think people enjoy football going this way 🤦‍♂️

Think its fair to say most want it only used for clear and obvious errors, but how can you ignore the fine margin errors if spotted?

Dazzler21 said:

Think father time has caught up with KDB - Piss poor today. 

Foden doesn't seem to have got going this afternoon either.

Edit - apart from setting up Alvarez for their best chance. 

Wheresmeticket said:

Man City / Man Utd half and half scarves. Oh dear.

Who the f**k buys these things, not real fans