[Steven Railston] Bruno Fernandes volunteered to speak to Sky Sports. “I let my teammates down,” he said. “It was a clear foul but never a red card, that was my feeling. If that is a red card, we need to look at many other incidents.”

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1. United must’ve fallen behind on their ref payments, this is unheard of

2. Was never a red card to be fair. Definite yellow, but not a red. 

3. yep the lack of consistency is a joke and harms all clubs

4. Ref talk is back!!!

5. It was a red. You don’t go for a player’s knee with your studs up and get anything else

6. Man u being shite will never not be funny

7. Yeah not a man united fan but that seems like a great example where var should be able to step in. Refs being different going to have impact on consistency but feel like there could be a VAR room that is the same people and in central location so it doesn’t change and could help create some more constant efforts on making sure these decisions that impact games are better. And the whole doing stuff in the beginning of the year and then slowly stopping is so stupid too, arsenal touching balls after whistles refs act like they have no choice but every week there are about 4 or 5 examples of it not getting carded.

   The fact is there is clearly no ability to have constructive feedback for the PGMOL. I honestly don’t buy into the conspiracies but they are definitely one of the worst referring organizations. Look at World Cup, playing the conversations live so you can hear there reasoning right or wrong. But in the “best” league in the world we can’t have that?

8. First time?

9. Letter of the law.

10. Interesting how he refers to the red card as that changed the outcome we would lose regardless he was invisible before he got red. But its nice that bruno only apologised for his own f up as a captain who cares if the entire team was shit….mount in mount yellow mount injured, 3 months no mount…. Someone check their boots specially garnacho and bruno 20 slips per match….

11. He’s right, it wasn’t a good call once you got a second look at it.

    But they absolutely would have lost anyway – they were just as abject with 11 as they were with 10.

12. yeah no. Streight leg, in the air, in uncontrolled jump. Thats a red card.
    Maddison is very lucky Bruno missed his knee

13. Probably the biggest Manchester United hater alive…but that was not a red card. Would be annoyed if we received that much

14. As an Arsenal fan I agree that was never a red, utterly ridiculous decision.

15. It was a completely dickheaded ‘tackle’ that forced the ref to make a choice between red and yellow. He slipped and still lunged late and without any chance of winning the ball. He should be shutting his gob and leaving it at being a let down.

16. I actually agree with him surprisingly, but including his own teammates

17. If this is red, then referees missed at least 9-10 more from the start of the league.

18. Great, let’s start with Lisandro’s tackle last week.

19. No way does this interview happen if the Manager has even a slight control of the dressing room. Absolutely shocking.

20. Blessing in disguise. Bruno’s form this season has been shocking. And today’s performance by the team was even more shocking.

    Honestly feels like we’re back to where we have been every three years.. players down tools, manager gets the sack. They did it to Jose, LVG, Ole, Ragnick and now it looks like Ten Hags turn.

    The worst performance I’ve seen in a long time and I’ve seen some bad ones over the years. I was gone at the half time whistle.

21. I can’t think of many other instances where someone slips and catches a player knee height

22. Not a red imo.

    Tough to take for Villa fans they’ll be gutted if Bruno is suspended.

23. I was listening to the match on radio and one of the commentators said ” if var were to look at that challenge if the ref gave it as a yellow I don’t think they would have upgraded it to a red so I don’t see why they can’t look at it and downgrade the on field decision” and he’s exactly rite.this is why people hate var,the technology is absolutely not a fault but the people who use it are terrible at implamenting it

24. https://www.skysports.com/football/video/12606/12678737/booked-k-trippier-newcastle-3-3-manchester-city

25. Take a break and come back champ. This break is vital for Bruno since he’s not performing well so far.

26. Can’t stand united but I don’t think it was a red.

    Don’t think it would have changed much though united were dreadful the entire game

27. Officer, I know I was speeding, but that guy was speeding too, so i shouldn’t be charged with speeding.

    He is going to transfer to arsenal 💯

28. “I let my teammates down… It was the refs fault though” alright mate.

29. I actually think Oliver is a decent ref gets a lot of stick I don’t think he’s ever giving a red card for that in a million years, the only reason Troasard shouldn’t have got a red is because he was shouldering the biggest diver in the league Silva other than that it was a fair enough red card you can’t go shoulder barging ppl in the back on a yellow v