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Interesting how the opinions are divided. I would put Taylor down as having a game of two halves

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Do you know what I find fascinating?

My daily routine includes listening to TalkSport in the morning then come to work and check this board. What was to be honest refreshing today is on TS the general consensus, both from the presenters and a journalist and ex footballer guest were that the officiating, on an incredibly busy night for both Michael Oliver and VAR, was very good - got most big decisions correct, or at least not overturning the 50/50 calls - so as I say generally positive.

I then come onto this board, and most obviously with page 1 of comments - looks to be mostly negative to the officials - admittedly a lot of comments during the match which I think are mostly biased - but certainyl a lot of feelign that reds were missed and oliver himself was totally off form.

I am just fascinated that once again it demonstrates the fact that the 2 different 'communites' - Media and referee are once again disagreeing with what they saw - and as per the differing reactions from Arteta and Postecoglu the 'footballing' community disagree with what they are looking for  - to me the biggest issue with VAR is that everyone is looking for something sifferent from it - so it will never 'work' in most peoples eyes untill there is a distinct way of workign that everyone is happy with - which may take a very long time

Michael Oliver is very well liked and a huge favourite of many on this board , so given the criticism of him on this thread is hardly bias . We all have our opinions on how he performed in this match.

Bond is injured and Harrington might be injured again aswell

For the record I don’t blame Oliver or the officials for utds defeat , we are just an average team , we are nowhere near Brentford or Brighton’s level let alone city, Liverpool’s , Arsenal or tottenhams

I only take umbrage ( yes that is a word that a few on here like to use lol ) with the fact yes it’s a foul but 99% of the time its not given why give it in such a big game? I can almost guarantee next time Oliver is VAR and a similar offence occurs he won’t recommend a OFR

He must have been as bored as I was after the drab first half that I witnessed

Excellent to see Barrott and Robinson continuing their run of games , Jones number of appointments seem to be dropping , I have my reservations about Tierney on the Manchester Derby because he’s hardly been great so far this season

I thought what should have been a second yellow for Konate was because it was cynical ,  Pawson has no empathy for the game he could /should have used common sense with regards to Youngs 2nd yellow card