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Penalty kick awarded to Dundee on field, in added time with the score at 2-2. An on-field review took place and referee Ross Hardie did not change his decision. Incident (from 4:30): Alternative angles:

Why did the ball go where it did? Skill (lack of) or circumstances? My opinion in this case is it was primarily the circumstances, mainly the close range and lack of time to coordinate the body, that resulted in a lack of control and the ball ending up where it did. So offside (assuming the...

How do you know that no report was made?

'Abomination' is harsh - can sympathise that the ball comes from a deflection but doesn't negate that the arm is out from the body.

Agreed it was an excellent SFP decision!

Gillett disallowed a goal for a push by Van de Ven on Walker-Peters despite Van de Ven himself being pushed from behind by Fernandes. VAR confirmed the on-field decision. Incident at 23 seconds:

I echo the calls to moderate the language a bit, it doesn't help anything. And there is a 'laptop version' accessible by web browser here: https://app.centrecircleapp.com/#/home

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The key part of Webb's explanation for this not being a foul was 'high threshold for contact in the Premier League'. In other words they don't want to uphold the definition of a careless foul as by not doing so they can allow more goals and contact for the entertainment of spectators, and avoid...

On the face of it this is very harsh treatment of Salisbury. The one unknown is we don't know what PGMO officials have been told to do and not to do behind closed doors, so it could fly in the face of their instructions. If it isnt that then it is Webb who should be taking responsibility not...

Ridiculous how much stick the refs are getting over this for correctly applying Law 12 and the VAR protocol.

If a player is not wholly outside the boundary lines they are considered to be on the field of play, so they cannot receive treatment.

OK for a sub then you can potentially caution them for delaying the restart but I'd be more inclined to sanction the injured player as the instigator of it all if I wasn't just restarting straight away.

Have you reviewed Law 12 team official offences? 'Deliberately throwing/kicking an object onto the field of play' is listed as a sending off offence. Now of course this is mainly intended for when the ball is in play, but if you caution the thrower for throwing an object onto the field of play...

Cautioning the thrower is potentially wrong in law, as deliberately throwing an object onto the field is a sending off offence. The only way for that to work is if it went down as delaying their own team's restart. I think it would be better to make the injured player go off as injuries should...

The post says it was the assistant manager sent off so it is unlikely to be an 'unidentified occupant' unless the manager was not in the technical area for some reason. This was my first thought too.

The first time I saw this I thought I would not be giving that with how close the arm is to the body. But then from other angles you see how much he has moved to get in the way. You take the risk you pay the price and it is definitely not a decision for VAR to overturn. I'm sure this will get...

It is difficult to tell at the moment what marking will end up like overall because of the new marking scheme for this season. I got slightly over 71 for my first observation last week which I felt was fair.

A (minimum) second caution being issued here would have been praised beyond refereeing circles and demonstrated the various behaviour campaigns are not just empty words as far as the professional game is concerned.

This is the inevitable outcome of writing law that doesn't mean what it says.