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The worst comeback in football is when a player said something about the rules and the referee says 'actually, they're laws'.

The FA usually send out an FA competitions rules library with a key summary of the bits that are important for match officials as opposed to the full comp rules which are an essay. If it didn't come as an attachment to the appointment, it will probably follow very soon. As above, I'd expect it...

If I’m thinking of the correct incident, that was the AR, not the ref… but he was sent off after the final whistle.

Not for the first time by all accounts! Sadly... a Christmas carol this is not... those who don't really see the error of their ways have zero hope in changing them, and Argentina just don't care what is thought of them.

Can confirm this was from Saturday’s game. Stuart Burt is a Northampton fan, but obviously can officiate on pre season friendlies. I believe Coventry made a request to warm their team up down that side because they wanted the whole 11 to warm up ready to change, for which permission was granted...

I have never cheered a goal for a team I have no affiliation with so much. What a horrible, nasty bunch of people the Argentinian team are. That nasty way of playing is in their DNA, and I genuinely think I’d rather be England and have defensively bottling it in our DNA. Disgraceful. Barco...

And also in the rugby there was a great example of why football won’t want to publicise communications live when the TMO was having an argument with the referee as to the award of the potentially result changing last minute try! 🤣

What the bloody hell is going on?

This really angered me too 🤣 Not the missed caution as it would have made no difference, but just what an absolute knob

I can't watch it but assuming thats the player ducking under our man in the air. It's a foul all day, but I don't think you'll ever see a penalty for it in a world cup semi final. I do think there's some legitimacy in the fact messi lands on Spence's foot when taking the ball before their 2nd...

Silly from Bellingham, but the guy probably deserved a slap. He ran on the pitch away from his team mates to celebrate in one of our players faces when they scored the winner. Edit: posted this comment before reading the article... there's a video of what he did in the article.

Norway got one in the England game but I gather you were several Holsten Pils deep by that point too!

Wouldn't shock me to see Elfath get the final also. He will be perceived to have performed well last night and while it's rare for semi final referees to referee finals, it's not totally unprecedented and we all know what could potentially go in his favour.

Hugely disappointing, but for once… nobody to blame. It seems Argentina don’t begin to play until they’re behind, but once they went behind they were comfortably better and unlucky not to score sooner. Elfath played a risky game but it worked perfectly for him I thought.

I'm a massive mix of nerves and excitement already. COME ON ENGLAND!!!! I hope Elfath has a good game! Good luck to him!