What an awful headline, written in the typical Daily Mail style. Howard Webb “admitting” something doesn’t mean anything; the man has been retired for years and is simply a TV pundit. It was a bad call and bad process, but I see no reason to promote the Daily Mail here

All these retrospective comments are useless, only make us more grieved.

Start by giving post match punishments and make these more harsh than what they would get during the matches. Give Bruno 6 matches ban for this.

I’ll say all day the goal should have stood. This is a clear red card though and I have no idea how neither the ref nor VAR gave it.

“Not used his arm as a weapon”… Jesus fucking christ. Does Chuck Norris have to parachute onto the pitch, sub in for Bruno, only to karate chop Jorginho in the throat for VAR to think its worthy of a red?

Where the fuck was this energy when Casemiro was sent off for slightly forcefully grabbing someones shirt collar? I don’t rememeber weaponized arms being part of the equation then.

I loved the introduction of VAR, but it just clearly shows us that these refs are just making up the rules as they go along, and no amount of tech is going to fix that

However long Arsenal fans cry about it - they can’t escape the reality. This was a red but it was the less egregious and later of two such incidents. On balance Arsenal weren’t screwed over by the refs and still lost.

So, why can’t they retrospectively ban him? The evidence is there. Seems odd to be like “ok, that should have been a red… but his got away with it”

I was thinking this is meme VAR with actors, than realized its actually real leak. They sound as me and my co-worker commenting on a foul.

What happened to them retrospectively banning players?

This is an unsophisticated operation. We should have a mini version of a traffic control center- multiple screens, technologies and angles to quickly decipher. It is easily possible. This is a few guys interpreting things in a rushed fashion. Game has to move on yes, so every angle needs to be ready to go instead of them marking possibilities and points of failure with multiple humans hurredly

can’t give red card to Newcastle player easily though, otherwise oil money will stop.

Hitting people from the back in any conext is totally illegal as far as I’m concerned. Especially when the first contact by the aggressor comes from some part of their body above the waist. In my experience I’ve had guys who were in a full sprint come up behind me while I was jogging in the box looking past the goal to where the ball is, and they throw up a forearm or elbow to decelerate themselves using my spine as a cushon. In these situations you get direct contusions from the initial blow, and sometimes whiplash and cervical injuries because you can’t see it coming. I think when any adult does this it is borderline assault, and should not be a part of the game at all.

lol Arsenal had Xhaka with “bad reputation”. He never had that type of match. Never hit the guy in the head or went shoulder in the back. And he was sent off many many times.

First person who speaks sets the narrative and everyone else just agrees. There’s no way that everyone in that replay booth believed it not to be red.

Look, he didn’t use his arm as a weapon, so what complaint can anyone really have? Lol, I’m joking, but in my head I am imagining Bruno G severing his arm, putting some barbs on it, and proceeding to beat people with it

Give him a red card after the fact. That will REALLY piss off their bosses from their second jobs.