The Matchbook: VAR Strikes Again, Arsenal Keeps Rolling and Tottenham Still Can’t Score
Welcome back to The Matchbook, The Football Corner’s weekly trip around the world of soccer.
We have to start in Manchester, where City beat United 1-0 in a derby that somehow turned into yet another referendum on VAR. Phil Foden was sent off early, United spent most of the afternoon playing against 10 men and Erling Haaland eventually scored the winner — except the goal probably never should have counted. We dive into the offside controversy, the postgame admission that VAR got it wrong and why Manchester United still doesn’t get to use any of that as an excuse for how poorly it played.
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