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Who else noticed the ridiculous mistake by the ref? Booked xhaka for practically nothing. Then said it was his third foul?! That was his first foul. The ref has clearly mistaken xhaka for Partey, who has committed two other fouls. Other than that, pretty good first half by the ref...

The commentator is just so boring banging on about that 'foul'?! Elanga should have been booked for diving if anything. Embarrassing

I don't understand how it wasn't? Forget the trip/shove, he had hold of his shirt twice in two different places stopping him from running towards goal. The shove is the icing on top of the cake. How about the boot to the face?

Disallow the goal for a violent headbutt to the keeper's flying knee. Disgraceful from Luiz

That's because there was an offside after the incident which stopped play for the lengthy VAR check/toilet break/computer restart.

Inconsistencies yet again.... Benefit of doubt, someone was offside before the handball? The initial shot that made it loop up? But you'd have thought they'd explain that?

I was surprised by 6 mins of additional mins too. 3 mins for this sub alone. 2 mins for the hamstring injury 2 mins for normal subs? Then how 2-4 mins weren't added on for all of the time wasting was interesting. I was fully expecting about 8/9 mins

Their manager made the wolves player faff about on the pitch (worse than the normal slow jog). He then refused to leave the pitch. Manager made a fuss and the ref got annoyed and had a conversation. Then the manager decided to take someone else off on the other side of the pitch so they could do...

What got me was the complete lack of cautions for the constant time wasting from around the 20th minute. The worst one was the substitution that the manager planned to disrupt the Arsenal attack and rhythm. It seemed to be about 2 mins long. Manager should have got booked for that too.

But isn't that because he has already fouled Mane? I still see no attempt whatsoever IMHO.

Center of penalty area. Just keeper to beat. No one near him. Taken out with no attempt to play the ball. Thought it was yellow if there was an 'attempt' Red if no attempt.

Just out of interest, why wasn't the Leeds player sent off for DOGSO for the second penalty? Last man, No attempt to play the ball whatsoever, trips and drags down Mane.

One thing that concerns me the most in this game. Koch went off as a normal sub despite the head injury. What happened to concussion/head injury subs?

No attempt to play the ball at all. Just clattered into him to break down an attack. No one would complain with a yellow.

Going to bring up classic VAR inconsistencies... Man city get the penalty - was daft to raise your hands up like that when attempting to close down a cross. Arsenal denied a handball penalty for an arm above the head and out stretched in a 'Y' kind of position, ball heading towards goal. Hit...

Not even a yellow either I don't think. I suppose back to the narrative of 'let's keep it 11 v 11' like in the other post? Haha Mind boggling

Exactly this. Bad tackle, yellow card, players surrounding referee, player being cautioned is in the referee's face, raging, clearly swearing and calling him names (possibly even red card) and the referee, usually 99% of the time, doesn't bother doing anything about it. This should be a classic...

Its a shame that football is literally the only sport where this is 'acceptable' /rules are bent just because you are a 'professional'.

Dissent is a cautionable offence? Doesn't matter how 'managable it is'. When you see Premier League players shouting and swearing in the face of a referee go unpunished it is infuriating. Then what happens in Sunday league? Refs are abused and assaulted. I haven't called him a cheat, he did...

You have answered the frustration of many referees and fans across the country withn your reply. Referees in the prem seem to almost use different variations of rules/bench marks to what is written in the rule book. My opening sentence = yes he has done the right thing. I am in no way...