I don't think any of your pens were not pens under the current rules.
*Puts on tin foil hat*
I do think we don't get as many pens as we should under the current rules.
Don't really think you need a tinfoil hat on to make such a claim. When you watch every minute of all the games your team plays during a season you'll remember the incidents where you weren't given the pen/freekick/red card. The big teams draw the most viewers and clicks, hence the focus on their players. Take the Brighton match earlier this year, I am sure that if Rash or Martial had gone down inside the penalty area like Connoly did (twice) in that match it would be something rival fans used against us.
My point is that most of us watch everything from our own teams, and might catch MOTD or something similar, missing the context of the game for rivals. Personally, I watch a lot of games, but not with the same concentration as when United plays, thus missing parts of the game. It's been a lot of fuss after the Villa game, with the main tune being that we had the referee in the pocket. In that game, Villa was awarded 22 freekicks against our 10, Oliver was wildly inconsistent, and nothing was said about Traores' blatant dive on the edge of the box. These things tend to get less attention, naturally, so for anyone who didn't watch that particular game the story changes.
The inconsistency is very annoying and the fact that the call on the pitch matters so much is also annoying. They should just go with what the correct call would be regardless of what the ref gave on the pitch.
I mean, if Pogba hadn’t been given a pen against Villa I don’t think it’d have been overturned due to the clear and obvious clause. But in the same game, we have a player nowhere near the ball, flying in elbow first towards Pogba’s head, and the VAR doesn’t even bother to check it even if play is stopped for three minutes while the medical team attends to Pogba‘s bleeding face. If there was a willingness to favour United by referees then they had a perfectly good opportunity to give a clear penalty for an assault inside the box, yet they chose not to. Instead of talking about protecting players against assault, the entire discussion revolves around the amount of penalties United have received with no mention of the legitimacy of said penalties. It’s as if people are under the impression that there’s a finite amount of times teams can break the laws of the game against a certain team in a certain area of the pitch, yet United have passed that line and the referees just keep giving them penalties anyway.
The experts in the Norwegian studio said that the situation with Pogba and Mings was checked and the elbow was deemed to be in a natural position, so I don't think we can use VAR as some kind of "fact check". This only strengthens your point, as they clearly don't favor us when claiming that to be a completely natural challenge. The fact check part is not aimed at your post btw, have seen VAR being used as an argument that all our penalties have been correct.