We've been shafted

[ballcock]

Swings and Roundabouts,it happens to all clubs

Wasn't there an incident with Forest the other week at Everton

If you are good enough you stop up simple has that, and if we get relegated we have only ourselves to blame

[ClaretinBudapest]

But you can't pretend it hasn't made a difference, take just one decision, to allow Luton's late equaliser to stand after a blatant foul on Trafford, it was a ludicrous decision to allow it and if they had come to the correct decision to award us a free kick, we would have been level with Forest on 26 pnts and 2pnts in front of Luton. That is the difference just one wrong decision has made, and there have been several others just as bad.

Not to mention the ludicrously disallowed goal against Forest for Sander Berge`s shoulderball-sorry handball.

[mnrht]

And the not given penalty on Odobert against BHA. It's true there are swings and roundabouts for all clubs but we do seem to have had some rough deals. I still believe the "thats the way we want to play " idea was unrealistic and cost us dearly.

[Swissclaret]

There are some good posts on this thread. There is an oft repeated mantra that over a season the decisions - good and bad - even themselves out.

Although I have not watched every minute of all our matches, I don’t recall any situations where I thought we were lucky to get away with one. I do recall situations like Luton and Forest (we even got a written apology) that went against us and could cost us our place in the PL. I am not sure about the swings and roundabouts argument.

We are not alone in the criticism of the officials and VAR. I think that this season they have been the biggest negative in our relegation.