Recent content by Gabriel

As much as what happened was wrong, and common sense did prevail, Hearts only have to look at Law 7.3 which specifically states "The additional time may be increased by the referee but not reduced" to know they potentially have reasonable grounds for appeal imho as clearly he did reduce the time...

Pretty sure he has a Valkeen

Agreed. Think he also got the no penalty call spot on just now. City defender standing his ground firmly but fairly

I think it was an orange tbh. No complaints either way imho. Cucurella was also very lucky not to be cautioned for dissent on 17 mins, and then went into the book on 32 for (I presume) SPA. He's very lucky to be on the pitch

They've been £20 for years, and fees have increased a lot since then. I've only been qualified 3 seasons now and my match fees have actually almost doubled in that time. They have to cover their costs somehow. I don't know what my CFA fee is for 26-27 but I know my local RA's fees are up from...

The protocol on The IFAB website just says they can review a "clearly incorrectly awarded corner kick if the decision can be changed immediately and without delaying the restart (competition option)". It also says they can't change the decision if the corner is taken quickly. We'll find out at...

Don't forget the run to the bell to test change of direction ability obviously

Indeed. They should install practice flags in the gym so I can get better at pressing the buttons 😂

I actually agree with this. Great quality but the buttons are a nightmare. Used them on a WFA Cup game last season and, although it stops unwanted buzzes, it very nearly resulted in a collision between a forward (who was offside) and a goalkeeper, which could have been nasty. If it was easier to...

Agree dissent and DRP clampdowns seem to be working and continuing. I still think lower down sin bins (as many have said) aren't effective and the captain's only protocol is pointless. I've rarely, if ever, seen it used properly which is defeating the purpose of it. Edit: to clarify, sin bins...

Tbh several othier sports do that and it works there so I think it's more of a culture thing than the protocol not working

I'd tend to agree tbh. And if there is an argument for careless, it's definitely nothing more. Even a yellow card here would have been wrong imho.

I'm a Wolves fan and I was honestly surprised by this when I saw the replay on the screens inside the ground. This hair pulling thing is getting ridiculously out of control now, seems to be almost every week.

I personally think in this case the punishment heavily depends on the context of the use of the word Paddy. I'm British-Irish so have been called that (and other things) plenty of times, but it doesn't really offend me 99% of the time as the use doesn't usually make it aggravted/targeted in a...

My answer to the question is as often as I need in order to help my match control. There was one game last season where I gave 3 cautions for dissent (2 to the same player so only 2 were sinbins really). In that game I really had no choice as it was blatant dissent, the game was getting very...