Recent content by GraemeS

That specifically doesn't say they couldn't intervene, only that they didn't. They were perfectly empowered to make the call, they just didn't either realise the fact there was a call to make, or didn't believe they had the right to do so. VAR isn't magic or algorithm based AI making decisions...

The correct answer is: Do what the league rules say to do. In reality - if the teams are walking out of the changing rooms at the start of the game, I'll lead them out and line them up for the handshake. That's easy and probably what they do expect, even if I'm on my own. Ditto if I'm doing any...

There are sensible ways this could have been done, this just isn't it. The concern is obviously gate receipts for a smaller team being lost - the solution IMO would have been to keep the revenue split but bundle this with a rule change that states if matches are drawn between teams from...

Agree with Santa - phrasing this as a "disagreement" with your AR is needlessly confrontational and dismissive. They have part of the information and given the lack of comms, did the only thing they could with the info they had. Your job is to take the information they gave you, add your own...

I think you can find one this past weekend in the United Coventry semi-final.

How many games has your fictional manager refereed in front of hundreds? This is a theoretical suggested improvement. Current IFAB requirements don't have to factor in unless they actually have merit. And every referee has to do their first PL game at some point, referees don't spring from...

The overarching trend in England is of too much caution when it comes to the VAR getting involved. So my guess is that it's much more likely that a red card given on field would be incorrectly not overturned by VAR. Alexis MacAllister for example was sent off against Bournemouth towards the...

Charitable reading - Clatts phoned Webb to ask him if this was a conflict of interests, he/Forest considered that putting in a request, Webb didn't consider it as such. Uncharitable reading - just as you said.

And I think that's an argument that needs to be examined and considered - not just accepted as irrefutable truth as it seems to be now.

Fair enough, correction noted - but I don't think it materially changes the point I was making.

Fully aware that I'm stereotyping, but it's not typical that older people are the most comfortable with technology. I'd love a VAR to be able to manipulate the images themselves - having to communicate with the replay operator is slower and risks miscommunication and having to repeat or correct...

Because not celebrating due to the possibility of VAR is a choice. Some people prefer to preserve the initial celebration moment and then if it gets chalked off, oh well. Or you can take the approach of choosing not to celebrate anything in case VAR spots an infringement and never getting that...

Nope, I'm with you - there's enough of an attempt on the ball that yellow would have been uncontroversial.

I have to admit I haven't followed Atwell in the VAR booth closely, but I would certainly say that I think Darren England is someone who just isn't very good at that particular job. That doesn't mean I want him fired and never to be seen again - there are enough games that he can justify his...

I mean, I think that happens even inconsistently though an individual league. The PL has around of third of it's SG1 officials that also have FIFA badges of some sort - so a third of the officials are being taught some combination of FIFA and PGMOL "directives" and the other two thirds only...