Recent content by markieg

Why do the FA not produce an app. It would make it easier to report what happened straight after the match, if they linked it like REFSIX to your watch a lot could be done at the time. It just seems daft that they are still on a slow and clumpy website.

He would also have affected the keeper as well. I would have said that he gained an advantage by being in the position. Would Shawcross have committed to the attempt, had the other player not been right behind him ?

What was he circumventing exactly ?

The keeper did not pick it up, so what did he do wrong. Had he picked it up I would have understood

While I agree with the ban and fine in this incident. I do think that they protect the refs a little to much in the sense that Managers can not complain if they think the ref has had a bad game. Insulting them I agree should be stopped, but saying that they think that the ref has been bad...

I have felt that we are getting to the stage where contact will no longer be in the game. Players now go flying, even if they are slightly touched as we as Ref's keep giving them. I was an assistant to a match today and the pitch became a mud pit, but the players did not do anything dangerous...

Sounds like you got it spot on.

If you intend the take the ball and do just that, does that not mean that when you started the tackle you were in control as you did as you intended ?

All tackles come off the ground, unless its a standing tackle so are all tackles out of control ?

I thought that both decisions were wrong. However the Vardy tackle did look in real time bad, but watching it slow mo he took the ball and did not connect with both feet. Had he been out of control as some have said then he would have connected with both feet. The hand ball, no intent as he was...

If I was at the level this ref was and one person gave me abuse that was not a player or part of the management. They you would be welcome too. I am sure like most refs, I would carry on.

Both doing the same thing for me. The problem with the modern game is that both push and shove, but the attacking player always goes down like they have been shot.

Constructive feedback.

Considering how close the ref and the assistant were to the incident, I would say they should have heard what happened. The player was angry at another player and the ref should have managed that, why did the player that pulled the shirt off his back not get a yellow ? I am concerned that the...

If they (FA etc) started to take action after the match for diving we would see a lot less of it. For me it should be classed as a red card offence and banned accordingly.