Peter Reid instantly reacts to Everton controversy v Crystal Palace
Peter Reid has insisted that the game is gone after Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin was shown a red card against Crystal Palace in the FA Cup.
The Toffees were forced to play the final 20 minutes a man down after VAR intervened at Selhurst Park, but they managed to hold out for a 0-0 draw to seal a third-round replay at home.
Despite winning the ball, Calvert-Lewin was determined to have committed serious foul play after catching Nathaniel Clyne, in a very soft decision.
Writing on X, Reid said: ‘I’ve lost the will to live, games gone.”
Embarrassing.
The debate around officials in the Premier League and VAR will never disappear until there is some kind of competence on show, something that will likely never happen.
Are we all forgetting that football is a contact sport? It seems so.
Calvert-Lewin scoops the ball around and does catch Clyne, but it was not deliberate in the slightest and the debate surrounding technology re-refereeing games comes into play yet again.
The FA and Premier League have got yet more serious questions to answer with terrible decisions such as these ones being made every single week now.
More times than not too, it is Everton on the wrong side of them – how many times will it be allowed to happen?
Any tackle is going to look dreadful when put in ultra-slow motion and to add to our worries, Dwight McNeil was also stretchered off late on, it’s been a poor evening all around.
In other Everton news, David Ornstein shared a new transfer update today amid £135million reports.