“Absolutely a red card” | Ref Watch slam VAR for not sending off Henderson in the FA Cup final

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The Ref Watch panel analyse Dean Henderson’s handling of the ball outside the box in the FA Cup final, as Crystal Palace went on to beat Manchester City and claim their first major trophy.

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Okay, let’s get to the FA Cup final. We don’t have the moving pictures of this, but we do need to discuss some of the decisions. Uh, first of all, let’s start with that in uh inverted commas. Ham from Dean Henderson. Jared Gilllet felt V uh felt that Erin Harland was uh going away from Jerry Gilllet was the one in V. But should it have been a red card? I thought it was a red card. I thought it was red card for a few reasons. Firstly, he’s deliberately handled the ball. Harland’s going towards goal. That that shows it. And they talk about the direction of the ball traveling. Well, it only traveled wide because Henderson actually slapped it away. So, I feel that if Henderson hadn’t slapped it here, Harland would have played the ball and he’s on a direct route to goal. So, I think he’s very, very lucky. It was quite clearly not from that angle, from the 18 yard box angle. You can see it’s quite clearly outside the area. Is that your assumption of it? So therefore, why didn’t V intervene? Well, they fed back that they felt uh the ball was going away from goal, that uh Harland’s travel was away from goal. But, you know, people see things differently. I think that pictures shows a different story. He is traveling and if Harland gets that ball first, which he’s entitled to because Henderson can’t go with his hands, which he’s done. I think if Harland gets that ball first, he’s passed Henderson. He’s clear on goal. He just roll it in the net. I think my biggest concern with this is is that it goes to V and you’ve got two people in the VI booth. How both of them don’t see it? How both of them can’t come to that conclusion of like Dermit says there that the ball’s being hit by Henderson. and it’s not being hit by Harland. If Hend Henderson doesn’t hit that ball, Harland takes it into the penalty area and probably towards the sixy boxish round that way. I I I I don’t understand how two people in the VIR booth can get it so horribly wrong. It was a really poor decision. Yeah, I totally agree. Really poor decision that’s had a a huge impact on the game as well. And the fact Yeah, everything that Dermit said there in terms of he’s outside the area, he hand balls it. It’s the reason the ball’s going away from goal is because he pushes the ball away from goal. Harland would have been in, you would suspect. Um, so yeah, it’s a it’s a definite red card and yeah, I have no idea how it’s not been it’s a really bad advert for V again. It doesn’t do V V any favors at all because what’s the point in it? What is the point in having V if you’re going to get that decision so horribly wrong? Because it’s easy, isn’t it, for the referee and and even the assistants to miss that because it’s happening so quickly. That’s where V has to pick up on that. 100%. I I I agree with there, Sue, because from where the referee was, Harland’s gone into challenge for that ball. He may well have felt that Harland had actually played that ball. 100%. I get that. But it’s a factual thing then, isn’t it? It is. It is. I think the other thing that was quite interesting, somebody said to me, “Well, Harland’s not in control of the ball.” The first thing is he’s got to be in control of the ball or able to control it. Well, he couldn’t be much closer to the ball. So, there were so many factors in Harland’s favor that I was really surprised. I think, you know, he’s got really, really lucky Henderson. Okay. What do they take away from this, Derma? Because if you’re Manchester City and you’re a supporter of Manchester City, I would suggest you’re what? Furious, upset. you can’t understand it. There’s the idea of um kind of oh it’s it’s Palace the underdog. We want to see a proper final. Do you buy any of that? No, it’s just um as I say I can only give my opinion and based on what I saw on Saturday based on you know the visual evidence in front of me and supported by my two colleagues that I just think he’s very very lucky to have stayed on the field. Can you understand though? Because I’m I’m trying to get I’m trying to get in the mindset of Jared Gilllet and V of why because the picture along the 18 yard box quite clearly shows it’s out. So it’s not like a close thing, is it? It’s Well, I think that’s a red herring anyway, Rob, because nobody’s disputing. Even the V isn’t disputing outside the penalty area because they fed back about the direction of Harland, the direction of the ball. So there’s there’s no dispute. It’s outside the box. It’s about is it gone from an obvious goal scoring opportunity to a possible as I as I say sometimes. But for me it’s an obvious goal scoring opportunity for the V. He felt it was a possible. I I think the thing as well is is that this V was bought in for moments like this in big games for games that are so high value. And I think there’ll be teams who were probably wanting Manchester City to win because of the European places. So they’re looking at that thinking, well, we’ve been done there. We’ve lost out on the potential of City scoring a goal and could possibly change the outcome of the game. And that was what it was bought in for was not to have these high-profile errors in big games. But people will be looking at that now thinking, we don’t want V. Fed up with it. Fed up with the decisions that we’re getting from V. We speak about it all the time. The percentage change in in bringing V compared to what it used to be. Is it really worth it? I mean, I know we’re going to come to other incidents in a minute, but it’s just it’s draining the game. The flip side is is if V wasn’t there, they’d be going, “Oh, you got to have V. You’ve got to have it, haven’t you?” And and but it was inevitable, wasn’t it? That Dean Henderson would go on to play a pivotal part in how the how the match ended up, really, wasn’t it? And going back to what you said about VR, V is great when it gives you the decision you want. It’s It’s not so great when it gives a decision you don’t want. Trying to remember when V gave a decision I wanted and I got lost somewhere. Uh right. Uh to the penalty decision this given for a foul on Bernardo Silva. Did Tyreek Mitchell actually get the ball? A referee gave it on field. I can understand why the referee gave it on field and I would say say the VR has no right to intervene because I think it’s a foul. I think he was right to give a penalty and I think V was right not to get involved. Happy with that? Yeah, happy enough. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was a penalty. Yeah. And Palace did have a goal ruled out. Happy they came to the right decision on that one. Yeah. You only have to see one replay and it’s mainly S. The minute it strikes him, he’s an offside position. Uh Munoz reacts brilliantly know so quickly. He’s he’s in. But Sar is offside. There’s no doubt about it’s an offside position. It impacts because the ball strikes him. So the minute it strikes him, has to be ruled out. And this will be a perhaps a recurring thing this morning. Why did it take so long? Because you said as soon as you see it, you go, “Yeah, right. Move on.” Well, I saw the the replay and as I said, S was a clue for me. Strike S offside. Easy. Yeah. Yep. Imagine if it’s so easy and it takes six minutes to sort out. Oh, no. That’s a We’ll get to that one.