Recent content by RefereeX

As I understand it, friendlies are absolutely correct to count towards the 5 games for qualification but that is as far as they can be used. I may well be wrong however, but yes, best to check

I wouldn't say this with absolute certainty, but I'm at least 80% sure that if your county allowed that, they were kind of wrong to do so by the FA's guidelines regarding it.

I just feel like the whole 10 second sub thing is pointless but whenever a team are trying to wind down the clock that player will be ‘injured’ thus cancelling the 10 second rule. I hope I’m proved wrong.

I think it’s a language difference. Subjective as the opposite of factual, every decision bar offside / ball in and out of play etc will be, no matter how obvious it is

I can (just) about accept an opinion that the degree of contact was massively exaggerated by the Ecuador player and isn't significant enough for a foul given he clearly wins the ball... but if you're unsure in these situations.... football expectation... it just needs to be a foul. Surprised to...

I hate the format more than anyone as if you can't finish in the top 2 of your group you don't deserve to go through, and Portugal winning Euro 2016 having finished 3rd in their group and not won a single match in 90 mins other than their Semi Final against Wales is the perfect example of why...

Easier to segregate away fans if they have their own stand I'd imagine, but obviously that vastly depends on the size of the stadium as to whether they'd have the whole stand or just a section of it.

It's considered a win by football people if you get the shootout in front of your own fans

Having watched it again, I actually do think it's probably a pen and should have resulted in a VAR intervention. It's the fact Konsa's flailing leg lands on top of the knee of the Ghana attacker that causes him to stumble I think.

Maybe it's the England bias in me but I don't think the Konsa penalty is stonewall by any means. He doesn't get the ball, but he also doesn't get a lot of the man who seemed to fall over anyway, all very messy and the ball went through regardless. Had it been given, I don't think it's wrong, but...

Think we got on the lucky end of 2 KMIs that could have gone differently. I do think no foul against Konsa and not dogso for Pickford are probably better outcomes, but if given the other way I doubt VAR would have intervened.

You would have thought the players would have learned from / adapted to his approach but they just didn't seem to.

To be fair, regardless of the protocol, if that can't be disallowed by VAR (and it should be spotted on field) then something is wrong. The player who was within 1m of the wall didn't just happen to stand too close, he backed in to the end player on the wall holding him off to stop that player...

which it could be argued he did.

Yeah he clearly didn’t fancy his chances of scoring, but there is a little tug so VAR can’t overrule