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VAR BLAME GAME HARD TO TAKE

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Vincent
Published date14 April 2024
Publication titlePeople, The
Officialdom finds itself in the dock due to offences entirely of their own making - and the desperate need, obviously, to make sure broadcasters have something else to chew over, aside from the action itself

Never mind the paying punter in the stadium.

But constantly blaming referees and Stockley Park for the inadequacies and mistakes that your own team have made is pointing the finger of blame in the wrong direction.

I'm picking on Gary O'Neil here, but it could be any one of them - with very few exceptions, they're all at it.

The Wolves boss went off on one last week when his side was denied a lastminute equaliser at Molineux when young striker Tawanda Chirewa stood in front of Hammers keeper Lukasz Fabianski.

There was no mention of the mistakes his own team made to allow West Ham back into the game.

There never is. The default position is always to blame officials.

However...

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