[St Charles Owl]

There were two incidents with refs making delayed decisions today, first one was in the Villa-Arsenal game when the ref took a few seconds to give a penalty for Arsenal, and the second was the delay in the offside decision in your game for the disallowed goal.  While these delays are frustrating for fans in the heat of the moment, ultimately both sets of officials got the decision spot on, Arsenals was a penalty and Olsson was offside!!  I would rather the officials just take a moment to run it through their mind, even consult with each other, but get the decision right rather than get it wrong instantly.

I think the fact that they made their decision from a replay showed in the ground which is against premiership rules irks me,
if Liverpool had scored that would they have shown a replay to persuade the ref?
Yes it was the correct decision but very wrong how they arrived at it,

it could set some sort of president into all home teams doing this which i say is against premiership rules,

If we could have shown 4 replays in our home game against Leicester that went against us 3 nailed on pens oh and a offside goal for Leicester can you imagine the uproar oh but the right decisions would have been reached   

Or is it that so called big clubs can get away with it ? 

At the moment its all rumors that they used the replay to make the decision.  If you watch what happened form the replays I saw they never once showed either of the ref or the linesman looking at the screen.  When the goal was scored the ref was talking to the linesman and then went over to directly speak to him, at which point they came to their decision.

Of course this could all be avoided by introducing video replays by a 5th official or in a case like this allowing the ref to talk to the media to explain exactly what happened and what was discussed.  Even if they don't want to put the refs in front of the media groups like the managers face, at least have them talk to just one reporter so it can be explained.