Recent content by deusex

ECL refs have never liked seeing a game go by without them leaving their mark. Now with VAR it's even easier for them to stink a tie up with soft calls (or even dow right bad ones like today). How 2 refz have concluded that is HB is beyond me. To any European colleagues, are you taught to...

Whilst I disagree, I actually don't think either of us have posted anything egregious. Others have been over zealous.

Ah but Rusty's allowed to say others are wrong because of the team they follow? How does that work then?

DCL pulled some hair just now in the FAC semi final. I make that the 3rd hair pulling incident in English football since Martinez that has gone unpunished. It's okay though, the FA have told us there is "zero tolerance" to hair pulling.

That is a hot take indeed. I don't want to be rude but you are 100% wrong.

Which is why players dive and roll around. Because referees will go with the leniant option if you don't.

I would show this game to new refs in how to let player tussles escalate and do nothing aboutnit. (And then ignore the most blatant VC you could see - hair touching aside).

I've yet to see any yanking of the hair in the 20 times I've watched the replay. If this is VC then so is DCL's grab around the neck (not a RC either) and we'll have two red cards then. A 3 match ban. Same as a headbutt or punch in the face. Pretty hard to compare.

Sending the referee to the monitor for the 2nd one is astonishing. The ref seeing it and then reversing his CORRECT decision is double astonishing.

Surely you see why a referee needs to be more protected than a player?

Neither were pens. VAR are the problem, not sending thebref tot he monitor for the 2nd pen is unreal.

I think by "at the time" he means "not 2 months later". I've no doubt my county FA would take 9 months to complete on this case. A continental FA? Anything over 7 days is a joke.

Just have an auction for the trophy next time, like FIFA do for hosting the WC.

He made a good call for the pen as well which a lot of refs arent giving.

No didn't. The goal was correctly disallowed.