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Why would you think that? I've got an established record on here of taking MCS and appeal panel decisions will less than a pinch of salt - making referees follow one law book and then judging the accuracy of their decisions using ex-players who probably don't know what that book looks like...

Pictures of serious injury caused by glancing contact with a stud? Nonsense. To borrow your analogy - yes it's possible to kill with a pen knife. But it takes a lot more force, applied with a lot more precision and intent. By reducing from large metal studs to small plastic studs, low-force...

In fact, if we're being precise, my exact words were "But they're not willing to stand behind it, so it looks like MO making things up as he goes along." - clearly criticising someone other than MO putting him in an impossible situation. I will always of course just accept the possibility that...

Yeah, and I don't like it when UEFA do it either! Two wrongs don't make a right.

I quite clearly say that I don't think he's making it up as he goes along? What I think's happening is that he's being told to be harsher on "obviously cynical" challenges than he might otherwise be, and so has taken a "orange" offence and deliberately chosen to go up to red rather than the...

Exactly this. I think this is a consequence of the few high-profile incidents (Xhaka being the first I remember) where commentators and pundits go mad over a clearly cynical foul with some (but not masses of) force, and the PL have kind of started to accept some red cards for what would...

I've moved away from that area a few years ago unfortunately, so no idea! 🤷‍♂️

I've written out receipts before (including for one game this month), and you'll often be asked to hand in a match card once you reach higher levels. So while the use of "invoice" terminology is a bit strange, I wouldn't automatically assume ill intent because of it. But as others are alluding...

Exactly. James got an answer from IFAB and I don't blame him for quoting it when relevant questions comes up.....but logically, it's obviously the wrong answer!

I was mid-writing exactly this post, so will just cancel that post and agree with James. I'd argue a system where more/different reviews happen and referees are empowered to actually make the decisions they want to would be better - but under the system we have, refusals at the monitor are...

Only just now? AI making things up when it doesn't know the answer has been a "feature" since day 1 of this generation of the tech.

I agree with this logic. Shoulder pull or impact is probably yellow, hair pull at that speed is definitely red. And if you don't have an angle that definitely shows hair, go yellow. Will be very interesting to find out what was actually shown.

Agree with this completely. One official describes it as accidental, another clearly recommends a yellow card. AT then states he's holding "somewhere else" (implying groin) and seems to go red based purely on that. Making a decision based on injury is wrong for a start. We can also see from...

"Trips or attempts to trip" resulting in SPA absolutely covers the first one IMO. And yeah, bottling/missing the second is a really basic mistake. It's remarkable how uncontroversial this being a mistake has been.

Accountability? For failing to correctly guess the weather and how that would affect a stadium he may have never gone to before? Not having that at all - these decisions are a guess at the best of times and require knowledge of weather and groundskeepeing. Neither of which are skills referees...

We've seen offside not given if the player dummies and steps over the ball haven't we? So there's usually a pretty high threshold on these things if there isn't actually a touch.

Oh it's 100% a wrong flag against Salah - that's the incident VAR cleared first. If the comms had indicated offside against Nunez then they would surely have looked at that first and never got round to clearing Salah? No real assessment or consideration regarding if Nunez actually did touch...

Harsh on Nunez that - it's pretty niche law knowledge to know that the ball coming to rest at an opponents feet and them choosing not to play it wouldn't reset offside. Hence the question - my actual assumption was that there would be another mechanism to reset it that wasn't coming to mind...

Really strange offside right at the start of the second half of this one. Ball is cleared towards Liv striker who is in offside position, walking back with his hands up. But the defender doesn't play the ball - it almost comes to a natural stop, before the attacker eventually challenges and the...

It's in the PA, so a review can start due to only a foul. I struggle to see how it's not a penalty and YC at least, awful lunge.