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Listening to Don Goodman talking about that decision was painful. Couldn’t be easier to give a red there

I’m not sure what relevance these posts are. Yes, for on the spot decisions we might have to make the occasional educated guess but we’re talking VAR with slow motion replays with multiple angles. There’s no guesswork going on, it’s they don’t know the answer so we’ll stick with the referees...

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not questioning how the conclusion is reached. But if an a player attempts to throw something at an official it should be irrelevant if he hits him or not. The only failure there is accuracy but the intent was the same. He wanted to hit him, he just simply missed. Throw...

Why should his punishment be less because he wasn’t accurate? He’s attempted to throw something at an official, whether he hits him or misses him should be irrelevant

No referee is cautioning for that

This really frustrated me. We want to stop abuse of referees and you’ve got Shearer praising a player for chasing a referee, it’s laughable. It was like listening to someone read out fan tweets on comms

Very nice of the club to provide some learning materials for younger referees. Im 100% sure that’s definitely the reason for the twitter post and nothing else ….

You could have stopped at ‘pundits/fans should just read the laws’

In some cases I agree that should happen but I’m not sure this is one of them. It’s definitely not a penalty but with there being contact I don’t think it’s conclusively a dive. Not enough for retrospective punishment anyway

Also a Boro fan so slightly biased … In real time I thought it was a penalty, from the side it looked as if he was pushed but from this angle I think we got away with one. just before this the referee missed a blatant penalty in the way of Boro. Maybe the referee missed got in his own mind...

Years

In the last few years he’s totally lost the plot

It’s nothing but a red card at any level. Shocking decision

I don’t know why the referee bothered waiting. if the team want to be that petulant, I’m going home and watching the football with my feet up!

You have the main points but don’t prolong it. AR’s hear almost the same thing week in week out. They switch off and stare into space if you say too much. Short and sweet, straight to the point. Make more of a show of it if you’ve got an observer.

You’ll hear a lot of referees (myself included) who will say ‘no surprises’. If the keeper is just off the line and nobody appeals, play on. It’s not right in terms of LOTG but you have to apply some common sense and not go looking for arguments when nobody is expecting a decision.

Possibly the easiest red card you could give at the top level for offensive language. Really disappointing to see the referee blatantly ignore it

How close the ball is to the spot of the foul is irrelevant. After blowing up for a foul he’s booted the ball 30 yards down the pitch thus delaying the restart. It doesn’t have to stop a quick free kick, it just has to delay it. Referees have been strict on it this season and been a big talking...

Seeing the physios run on the FOP from that Raya goal kick after MO told him to play on is a terrible piece of game management. We all have off days but it felt like MO struggled today

If he hadn’t have heard the whistle he wouldn’t have turned around to appeal the free kick. It’s purely Trossard being stupid, especially after the Rice decision. He only has himself to blame