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Manchester United fans will be dismayed to hear that VAR will be used in the FA Cup from this round forward. Not just regular old Premier League bullshit VAR that we know and love, but VAR with “semi-automated” offside calls like they use in Europe.
Hopefully the technology is a roaring success, because anything that can be done to eliminate the dubmfuckery that goes on in Stockley Park every week is a benefit to humanity as a whole.
Fuck fucking Millwall. Two of our players kicked in the head before we reached 10 minutes. The 2nd involved their keeper who did a flying drop kick that saw him sent off.
That was 5 minutes ago and JP Mateta is still out cold on the ground. Now being stretchered off.
Fuck Millwall.
Millwall fans booing Mateta as he was a carried off. His injury took more time than had been played before he was assaulted.
I am beyond furious with those ignorant, racist, mouth-breathing fuckwits.
Look at this shit! That’s the goalie’s boot that’s just gone straight through JPM’s face.
Ref. Michael Oliver - pictured here so close to the incident that he fills half the frame - saw nothing wrong with that at the time and then let the game carry on with Mateta out cold on the ground. It was VAR that told him to give the red card.
Mateta was fully unconscious on the ground. When he was carried off he was receiving oxygen.
Palace dominated the first half and took an easily-deserved 2-goal lead. Then, in the 13th minute added on following the attempted murder of our striker, they had a break against us and half-a-dozen ricochets later it’s 2-1.
So much to hate about Millwall.
Fuck off Millwall, south London is ours.
In case you think I’m being hyperbolic about the assault on Mateta:
Millwall goalkeeper Liam Roberts launched a scrambled, wildly dangerous flying challenge into the head of Jean-Philippe Mateta with just five minutes gone. In the process Miller killed his own continued participation in the game, not to mention a large portion of the BBC live broadcast, and could conceivably have done the same to Mateta.
The opening moments saw Millwall dally vaguely down the Palace left for a bit. And then with five minutes gone Roberts ran toward a bouncing forward pass, left his box and kicked Mateta in the head. It wasn’t really a kick, more an assault, martial arts-style, launched full force into Mateta’s face, an act that looked in the moment, not just like a red, but like two reds, maybe three.
Mateta was incredibly lucky he didn’t get the cleat square in the face.
Pretty amazing they needed VAR to assess the situation, with like you said the ref standing right there looking right at the play
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Michael Oliver is a piece of shit referee. Smug cunt.
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No definitive reports yet, but people have described seeing his face gashed open.
If you did that on the street, you’d be going down for 3-5.
Key moments, starting with that moment.
Wouldn’t surprise me, but I was thinking more fractured orbital bones and/or maxillofacial surgery.
I hope it’s all out of an “abundance of caution”, but the radio silence is very worrying. He hasn’t been checked and cleared. A busted socket could cost him an eye.
Steve Parish - the Palace chairman who is known for being calm and considerate with his comments - was interviewed at half-time and was absolutely fuming. I fear that this is very bad.
Just saw that the Millwall fans were chanting “let him die” while he was being attended to.
I had no idea of their reputation or history…then I read their wiki page. Shitbags.
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They were up there with the worst of the worst during English football’s dark ages. The game - and the world - has moved on; these knuckle draggers remain unenlightened.
Even the manager excused the assault on Mateta, saying it’s the sort of thing that happens every week. Meanwhile, soccer pundits who can walk upright are (rightly) comparing it to Toni Schumacher’s poleaxing of Battiston in 1982.
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Meanwhile, it’s all kicking off as the Bournemouth-Wolves tie heads towards penalties. Wolves’ Cunha just picked a fight after getting called offside and has been rightly straight-redded.
Getting him off the pitch has been a challenge as he seems to want to fight everyone.
Also, ESPN’s English commentary feed has crapped out, so they’re using the French feed (I think) and having the studio guys blunder through PBP.
Pens it is.
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Boo, I was on the phone and missed the red-card shannanigans. Sounds fun.
I was wondering why when I walked back in the feed had totally changed.
Soccer fights are like basketball fights: a lot of posturing with little action. Cunha had a baby kick at an opponent while the opponent was on the floor and, after the guy got up and expressed his displeasure, Cunha put his head on him.
That’s not a euphemism for a headbutt. He literally put his head on the other guy’s head and pushed a little bit. Hilariously pointless, and a rule book red.
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