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Blue cards is the best part of the sin bin plan

I agree, it appears to be more for the show than it is the decision making, but if the VAR’s sole purpose is to recommend a review because they believe the onfield referee made mistake, how much credibility would they have if they kept being overruled? If the referee is being called over, it...

Managers and pundits keep making the argument that it’s inevitable that it’ll be awarded if they go to the screen but I’d argue that’s exactly the outcome we want. They are being brought to the monitor being told that after review, they’ve potentially made a clear and obvious mistake. We don’t...

I have many thoughts about Bruno Fernandes but I don’t think the admins would approve the post

Agreed. Endo knows exactly what he’s doing and it’s designed to impact Van Dijk

And the rest. Looking at their list of videos all of the thumbnails are some sort of fight or tackle. And to say the captain handled it well, my god. I would want to get that captain off the FOP as quick as I could

Why would anyone want to referee these YouTube teams. They are nothing but trouble

They are blind to the impact their tweets have on grassroots referees

I agree with you, it’s the reason I said get through the BS. Referees have been hindered by the pressure of the entertainment industry

There is a valid point amongst this when you fight through the fog of BS. Referees have always had the tools to deal with dissent but have regularly had to sacrifice that in the aim of entertainment and trying to keep players on the pitch. It’s gradually got worse and worse until a knee jerk...

100% agree. We’ve all heard captains say ‘I’m the captain, i can talk to you’ which we know is nonsense, but actually applying that would make dealing with dissent so much better. Actually define who can talk to you and anyone outside of that knows they’ll be taking a seat for 10 minutes. It...

Blue cards themselves should have been issued on day one. Personally, this change should be one thing at a time. Do it just for sin bins, have everyone adapt to what is a hugely impactful rule change and then bring in SPA in the future. Doing both at the same time I guess is good for ‘one big...

I got all excited when I saw blue cards, that should have been day one of sin bins. Issuing them for tactical fouls? I can see this being a mess

Everyone stop eating because King Wilder has entered the room! As if he’s going to get any kind of respect talking like referees are beneath him

The delaying the flag situations for injuries is such a nothing point. How many delayed flags have we had since it was instated years ago and there’s really only 2, maybe examples of an injury. You remove the delayed flag and then next week a manager moans because of an incorrect flag causing a...

at the moment I’m getting 2/3 max a month at level 4, still spending half my weekends working as a level 5.

I think it shows a good human element to referees personally. Just a laugh really

It’s a foul, I can’t see it any other way. The attackers movement is purely to impede the goalkeeper.

The level 4 test is straight forward compared to the Cooper test. The only people I’ve ever seen fail the level 4 test (myself included) is through injury rather than fitness. Cooper test always caught a few out in my experience

Additional point/advice: I don’t know what level you are or whether you’re going for promotion but I’m making the assumption this is at grassroots as the club called it off. when/if you get to the higher levels, absolutely do not do this. It will not be a positive against your name.