Recent content by RustyRef

A lot I have seen allow astro turf trainers, but specifically call out hockey shoes as a no. Seen this sign at a few places down here.

I'd be wanting them to blow the whistle as well for that amount.

I suspect she got to the right outcome via the wrong reasoning. Would be incredibly difficult to see the accidental handling by the attacker so I think she assumed it was hitting the post or going wide.

An alternative way to look at it as some professions make it easier to referee at senior levels than others. When I was in the system there were a lot of postmen at L4 or L3, they had no issues with evening games because they obviously start and finish work early. I also knew quite a few lorry...

Being the tight Yorkshireman that I am I suspect I'd just be superglueing it in and dealing with the consequences after.

Not sure I understand that comment, the referee had two big decisions to make and he made them both on-pitch with no help from VAR.

Definitely not a penalty in my opinion, even the Arsenal fans I know don't think it was and they are usually very quick to moan. What isn't open to any kind of debate is that it definitely wasn't a clear and obvious error to not give a penalty, and I have a feeling that had it been given VAR...

He's already refereeing in the Premier League and making it look like child's play. Perhaps Tom Bramall isn't who he actually says he is 😂

Agree with this, the first one he's lucky he didn't really make contact. I'd like to think that after I saw him get up and race towards another challenge I'd be at best screaming at him to be careful, or even better just deciding to give a free kick for the first one. But once he makes that...

When I managed I always said to the players that if you don't say anything to the referee you can't be punished. Open your mouth to protest and you run the risk of a card, and unless you know the characteristics of the referee you don't know what colour that might be. To coin the old phrase you...

Somewhat ironic that the thing he has been sitting on for most of the season got him offside 😂

It really doesn't matter whether they indicated 5 or 7, with the score at 4-0 in a cup final both teams would be perfectly happy with zero. Which is very different to the Celtic vs Hearts game as the argument there is it didn't actually finish and the referee blew before the minimum added time...

There couldn't have been any more, no one tackled each other. It really was one of the worst football games ever seen.

That seems to be becoming increasingly common. It used to be almost universally the case that the final referee would come from one of the quarter final games, although that obviously isn't an option in the play offs. But that concept seems to have gone out of the window.

Then they potentially get consequenced, but I'm not getting involved in fan based nonsense.