00:00I just wanted to compare a couple of decisions that we've seen lately.
00:03Obviously we saw the situation where Mark Gay appeared to pull back Mo Salah
00:07when he played Manchester City.
00:09Yesterday, when Manchester United played Crystal Palace,
00:12we saw a foul on the edge of the box into the penalty,
00:15a penalty awarded and a red card given in that situation.
00:18Obviously the Gay pull back, there wasn't a red card.
00:20It was not a red card.
00:24How did you compare them?
00:26Very comparable.
00:27The only difference is that Mo was pulled by the shirt
00:30and here was a hand on the shoulder.
00:34If I look at it, I see a similar distance.
00:37Maybe, maybe, maybe even the distance between Gay and Diaz
00:40was even a bigger distance than the distance between both centre-backs of Palace.
00:46But I would try to ask you to check this for me, please.
00:50Let's see if it's the similar distance or it's more or less.
00:54So the moment when I saw it because I saw it live, I thought,
00:57knowing what has happened with us in that situation,
01:01VAR is probably checking if it is even a penalty or if it's in or outside the box.
01:06But he will never, ever give a red card for this.
01:10And this is what I sometimes hold against VAR because every time when the Premier League comes in,
01:16they tell me that there were only two wrong decisions over a whole season.
01:20But I hold this against VAR you are expecting.
01:24Because in both situations it's a VAR interference.
01:28So nine or ten times in football there's the difference between the referee has given a red card,
01:33OK, I stay away from it, I accept his decision.
01:36Or the referee did nothing, I stay away from it because I accept his decision.
01:39But in both situations the referee did not give a red card.
01:45And in one situation he overturned it to a red card.
01:48That is for me, either one of the two is a mistake.
01:50So then when you come in, in the end of the season you have to say,
01:55OK, we made more than only one or two mistakes.
01:59But what they mean with a mistake is if the VAR overturned it in the wrong way.
02:03Yeah, I can expect that in these two is already a lotter.
02:09So, yeah, surprisingly this was a red card.
02:15No, this was not surprisingly a red card, this is for me a red card.
02:20Because I said so many times that it was clear for me that the one from Kwee was a red
02:24card as well.
02:26But I wasn't backed up by everyone.
02:30I wonder, what did the panel say? Do we know?
02:32I think the panel said afterwards that the correct decision is made by...
02:37So, yeah, we're expecting the panel now to say five times wrong decision made by VAR and the referee.
02:46What frustration then is there?
02:49Of course there's a frustration because that's not the first time.
02:53This is such a clear example because it happened so short ago that you are now...
02:59But I would like you to remember on the goal is allowed from us at City, the header.
03:04And one week later we played against Forest or two weeks, I don't know,
03:08and exactly the similar situation and the goal was allowed.
03:12So it's not for the first time.
03:13But, yeah, I've said also many times we have to make sure that we don't depend on these decisions.
03:19We're better than that and we just win our games by being so good that even if decisions go against
03:25you,
03:25which sometimes happen in football, I'm not saying since I'm here for one and a half year,
03:29everything has gone against us, that's not true.
03:32But sometimes decisions go against you and you have to make sure that it doesn't hurt you.
03:35So here we go.
03:35So, thank you.
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