Recent content by Paul_10

I must admit, I thought at one point he did had a grab of the hair and as Cucurella was moving at pace, it would definitely create some force but you got to be 100% sure and I don't think the evidence is fully conclusive so VAR right not to get involved.

If that type of contact was with the hand in a forward movement, it be an automatic red card like it was with Gueye's slap which let face it was not excessive force(I doubt Keane had a red slap mark on his face) but it's still a red card. If Taylor only gives a yellow card in a World Cup game...

It's not a headbutt that you will see in a street brawl of course not but it's a clear unjustified forward movement onto the head of Haaland and as Big Cat post shows, we have seen red cards for much less in the past. Football expects a red card and the law certainly suggests it should be a red...

Well former referee Graham Scott has backed Anthony Taylor's decision of only showing a yellow card with Graham saying "it looked like a potential headbutt but he(Haaland) was stepping away and there was no contact that would look like violent conduct to the referee". I mean surely it's not just...

It's smacks of let keep it 11 against 11 because its the biggest game of the season it also smacks of the VAR being afraid to overrule Taylor because I assumed he saw it properly and decided yellow was enough. On the other hand, whilst Haaland was very honest here, if he went down clutching...

I think even the PGMO wording suggests this perhaps should not be a red. For one, the players are challenging for the ball and secondly there is no force, if this occured way off the ball as their wording says then I probably would support the red card more. Of course on the flip side, since...

As with the Keane one, the force is negligible and there could be an element of doubt it was fully intentional to go for the hair. For me to be classed as violent conduct, it has to be deliberate, sustained and some evidence of force for a sending off. The Jack Stephens one last season is a good...

They are different but the level of contact looks similar too me and when I say they are different I mean more in the fact Mitrovic was already speaking to the ref and it was not until he did the shove/nudge and the red card came out he became overly aggressive towards the referee. Maybe the...

Hard to tell with the first one, it does look like it might just be outside of the area where the contact is made, no real issue with me if the VAR did give definate proof it was outside the area. The second one is just baffling, how can a FIFA ref go to the screen and thinks yeah I got that...

I can accept a yellow here but then Fulham can argue why did Mitrovic get a red card and a 8 game ban for giving the ref a small nudge on the arm, it clearly just down to the interpretation of the ref on the day but maybe the law should be changed that any contact on a referee that is a...

And that is something fans will find very hard to accept but I would like too see in these situations where if a ref gives a pen but there is no evidence of a sustained hold or shirt grab then it should be subject to a review hence I think it was the right decision not to award the Amad one. For...

I do think despite the noise, VAR operates better in this country than others because at times it feels like sending a ref to the monitor is part of the theatre especially when I watch the Champions League games where it supposed to be best refs yet seemingly make alot of errors because they get...

Which seems all wrong for that logic to apply at this level. The ref is fortunate this is not a high profile game otherwise you probably wouldn't hear the end of it. For me it's just a foul in the middle of the pitch, not even enough to warrant a first yellow card nevermind the so called...

I can see why people would see the funny side but the optics would not look so good if there was a dubious decision for example. I would also question the players intentions on whether it was deliberate to huddle around the ref, not one of them let the referee room for him to escape the huddle...

I think football expects a red card here just like they did for the Dalot tackle on Doku, all this stuff regarding glancing contact to justify a yellow is one where it would lead to inconsistencies as how much is a glancing contact could differ from one ref to another. I feel challenges like...