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I’d back this with the possible caveat for rebounding off your own body like heading onto your arm. Sanctions are moving in this direction with the 24/25 laws that a non-deliberate is punished like other offences.

The Senior Youth League appoints assistants for midweek floodlit games which will offer you some opportunities. I did several stints on it, and that was invaluable when I first started taking refereeing seriously in the early 2000s as otherwise I was on my own all the time. I only stopped as...

I watched it back again and I do think Cucurella should be off to get a lottery ticket. His right arm (opposite side to the shot), he tucks in, but the left moves away from his body into the the path of the ball. If the Denmark finger flicking is a penalty, then this… Although that said the...

Based solely on this tournament and the guidance/instructions issued that’s a penalty. Isn’t it?

Roberto Martinez with a managerial masterstroke. This will be the end of Ronaldo as an international player. For all the likely pre-tournament talk about being undroppable, the star man etc, he’s proven that he is no longer. Father Time wins again.

90+7 I stand by this comment!

Posting with 10 minutes to go. This refusal to change players until it’s too late has been repeated as after this game, it’s one mistake too many. For this reason, and this reason only I’m regrettably shifting to the “time to change the management” point of view. In a slump, you have to do...

The Bellingham caution and the goal are examples of why I’ve got the bad feeling. Off field pressures + frustrations with their own performances = stupid challenges a la Bellingham. Guehi daren’t make a challenge, and knows he couldn’t take down the attacker because he’s walking.

Got a bad feeling about this one from an England perspective. It’s gotten a bit trickier after the first two cautions. First caution for Guehi, no arguments. It’s early to take one for the team but needed to be done from an England perspective. The Mainoo caution I’m not so convinced was required.

I can’t help being reminded of this thread: https://refchat.co.uk/threads/single-game-card-record.23777/ 😆

Game on! Goal check took a while longer than I expected. No obvious interfere with the goalkeeper.

Keeper looks like he dislocated his shoulder making that save 😕

And he’s still going at half time about the first being harsh, and the second “he got the ball”. Arguably Barak could’ve gone immediately after his first caution for the slam-throw of the ball after being shown the card.

Much like the Yildiz caution “I don’t know what he’s done wrong there” just as the camera shows studs raked down the inside of the defenders calf.

Early red card for the Czechs. Commentary is dire from Andros Townsend- “he’s in possession but the on stands on his foot. He can’t be penalised because he’s in possession” Andros, thanks for everything you did Ina Luton shirt but please stay away from a microphone. Call it harsh by all...

Perhaps an element of underselling that fact rather than obliviousness. At the same time they’re also handling an incredibly toxic media and social media environment, arguably the worst it’s ever been. Perspective has been lost badly. Everyone needs validation from clicks; punditry is more...

The Spartan has 3 divisions all of which use neutral assistants so your chances are fairly good of getting games consistently. And availability is done on a spreadsheet; you mark in advance when you are and are not available and they take it from there. Similarly, UCL appointing officer often...

We packed him off to some obscure TV station. He tried to help it launch with fanfare declaring himself “uncancelled”. Said channel can now be described as “un-on-air” or “unbroadcasting” (it’s found a dark corner of the internet to lurk in instead)

He controls the ball with that touch. Ignoring ITV punditry (Lescott with the “never played the game” comment), the defender has a strong argument that had it not touched the hand of the attacker, he’d have had a chance to clear it. Won’t please everyone I know, but the thing that sways it for...

Caution has to come out soon. Multiple fouls around the goal area on Bellingham and Alexander-Arnold. Edit: our posts crossed. I can understand reluctance to go early but you have to draw the line sometime. And that sometime is now I think.