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I'm obviously not remotely knowledgeable on this subject, but why does all of the above not then apply to footballers and their "X-year contracts"? If a player gets to the end of their contact (even if it's been more than 2 years), the club isn't obliged to continue employing them or go through...

Sign them to SG2 on a 5 year contract? Either you get promoted and accept a new SG1 contract or it expires naturally.

You blew the whistle to restart and then they start debating about wanting a wall? Why did the attackers not just start playing?

I don't remember the exact context, but remember this answer and remember thinking it is actually the much less tidy solution. And this is a good example why. It's obviously much tidier if the laws allowed for play to have "stopped" whenever the referee decided it should be stopped - which in...

If the best defence of the performance is "he's not going to be brave enough to make the big calls" then....well, I don't think I need to argue the prosecution any more.

I mean, I would say exactly the opposite - part of the reason it was such a good game was the atmosphere generated by the referee winding up basically everyone in the stadium with his poor decisions. The two Newcastle penalty shouts you refer to - one (VVD) was stonewall and a bad miss, the...

Also, Newcastle wasted ages over a FK in injury time. Ref gave the game 30s extra, but maybe if they'd messed around less at the FK a minute earlier, they might have had time for that attack.

Apologies for not knowing intimate details about the employment history of the AR in question before posting :rolleyes: I mean seriously, that defence obviously doesn't hold up to scrutiny. If he's not competent to do that job, why is he doing it? You rightly query why reserve ARs aren't in...

Poor performance all round from the MO's on this game. As well as the two above (the wording in both tweets is a little over-dramatic, but they were still both missed reds), there was a definite Leicester penalty that was missed ahead of the one they did get, and that one they did get was almost...

I'm with the above post, this is barely even a foul for me, and the minimal contact that does occur is a natural running motion combined with an opponent sliding into him. The referee was very slow to go to his pocket - he's either been recommended a caution by one of the assistants (who should...

The idea of a national union/spokesperson for grassroots referees is really interesting and worth exploring. Refsupport acting like they've been appointed as that and as if they speak for me does absolutely rub me the wrong way. I've never noticed anything as awful as you're suggesting, but...

I would question why David jumped down my throat after my initial post saying it was bad advice then?

And? As you know, I have very little interest in discussion being shut down by things that exist purely because no one has bothered to think about changing them. If it's a bad and outdated method which is defaulted to even when clearly not appropriate, why are you suggesting I can't say that?

The original post described a referee being told to slow a game down, jog 50 yards, carry out a slow caution procedure and then jog 50 yards back into position. In order to punish time wasting! If you can explain to me in what way that isn't bad advice, I'm all ears? And the reality is, that...

Yes. And that's still a dumb and outdated approach, regardless of what is expected.

Jesus, you'd think I killed someone based on the angry response this post has generated! You can do what you're comfortable with on your pitch. Forcing referees who are more comfortable with quicker cautions and a lower profile to make a big show of obvious cautions is dumb when no one needs...

They're administered that way because outdated observers still insist on giving outdated feedback. If I want to slow things down, I can still talk to the player/their captain and can take as long as I want to write notes in my book, set up the resulting FK etc. If the player is angry, I don't...

"Procedural cards" are outdated anyway. But even if you imagine they're necessary the majority of the time, this would be a fully justified exception - this is a poor piece of advice.

He's also sat next to a guy who specifically says "we all hate scousers" and does nothing to distance himself from or disagree with that comment. Appreciate it's not ironclad evidence of what he thinks, but as I said up thread, it's not crazy to at least consider the possibility of bias.

I've seen multiple LFC websites and accounts reporting win rate stats significantly lower with Coote as ref/VAR than the average across the Klopp era, with some pretty high-profile "mistakes" highlighted as part of those games. And that doesn't include missing one of the most obvious DOGSOs ever...