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For encroachment that blatant? Absolutely. I'd expect every single referee to have the courage to make that decision. Unless you'd rather be LWR...

Nothing surprises me in the HAL anymore. https://streamable.com/ctmrg That was the manager (a particular bald-headed thug who some of you remember) who 'whistled'. So what does the referee do? Goes with it - really should have been a card to the manager, and it would have been if it was...

Not unusual, sadly, but it's pathetic. Just enforce the damn law already. Sure, one could argue that those defenders didn't have any effect on the kick - so what? It's a blatant breach on the law. Look at the mess this over emphasis on 'impact' has gotten us into - the encroachment law may...

I've had a chuckle out of it now and then - and really, good on them - taking the time and effort to do all of this, promote their local football and have a bit of fun with the comp

Even if it's questionable if the keeper had it under control, based on that image you could sell the PIADM foul as well.

Technically illegal. But so is cautioning the wrong player. And also...... Allowing a goal after the attack has committed an offence. The method of scoring is quite clear on that. So I guess we're left to choose between 3 bad options. I'm jumping ship and claiming that between 3 options of...

When you have players from both teams trying to take the restart because match officials have signalled different directions I think that's time to slow it down and stop the confusion. If the other player just tried taking the throw because he thought it was his and both ref and AR opposed him...

I can't say i agree there. Keeping the wall at the right distance is sufficient here, along with dealing with encroachment or argy bargy

As to whether it was a mistake to try advantage - it's damned if you do, damned if you don't here. We've all blown for the foul in this situation just as the attacker lets go a shot that gets past all the attackers into the corner of the net.

The DOGSO/advantage decision is a tough one....if the 2nd attacker was intercepted by the defenders, go back to the foul. If they took a quick shot from that position and it went nowhere I'd be happy going back to the foul - after all, it went from 1 on 1 to a shot through 3 defenders. But...

That's exactly what was accused in the A-League grand final last year when VAR 'stopped recording' during an offside goal (the only goal in the game)

I'd rather no campaign than a pretend one. The problem with the pretend campaign is that then they justify not actually doing anything because they point to the pretend campaign, shrug their shoulders and say 'what more do you want'? At least with no campaign there's a better chance of a new...

I haven't heard or seen anything that indicates the Respect campaign is anything other than pointless tokenistic garbage in place of actually doing something

This observer wouldn't :) I've only ever told them where the 10 yard line is, that's it. More of a word if there's argy-bargy with attackers trying to get into the wall.

That's the idiocy we need to get out of the game...'passion'....what an absolute load of crap. Every sport is passionate. No sport encourages abuse. And it's not even about 'putting up with it'. So many things about this sport actively encourage abuse. Including idiotic comments like...

Most i've ever hit was 3 for 1 team. Funny thing is, in one instance 2 of them were for a player I also pinged for diving in that same game (the other 2 were stonewall though)

People aren't airplanes - you don't need arms out like wings to jump high. Personally I think people overstate 'natural position'. You can be taught to do something different and that's just as easily 'natural'. Jumping with arms out to the side is just poor and inefficient body mechanics for...

I know some of the incidents that caused debate on here from the WC and while similar I think they still had some differences. Personally, I don't think this one is a foul....but I also can see why there might be an argument the other way, so I 'm okay with VAR not overruling it. I'd be...

Agree 100%. Just be proactive, tell him to come back onto the pitch. Easy.

There's some card happy refs on here! Dissent by action? No, it's more likely the player is thinking so hard about his role that he's just not paying much attention to you. The team is already perceiving that they've lost out by having their attack taken away. So, in a way they're being...