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The first one was for a foul, and it was clearly Ugarte that committed it so that isn't open to debate. The second one it really couldn't be any more clear that it was shown to Ugarte for dissent, the card was literally shown to his face with no one else close by. I can only assume that he...

He isn't an elite category referee so was never going to the USA anyway. I suspect this was something of a development game for him and he has fluffed his lines in a big way. For the big decisions, I don't think the challenge by Araujo was as bad as the commentators made out, but he came in...

Not a foul for me, far from being a foul, but it was given on field so not something VAR are likely to get involved in unless there was zero contact. Sonia Bompastor has had a bit of a rant today about the standard of refereeing, and effectively said these WCL games should get the best referees...

That’s where the challenge started, but a lot happened after that. Thank goodness City won or I dread to think what the meltdown from Man City fans would have been 😂

Generally speaking I would say OFFINABUS is always going to generate debate and there won’t be consistency. When I first started 30 years ago I had a very quick trigger hand and had a lot of red cards. These days it takes a lot to offend me and they are very rare. But if a referee hears any...

I thought he was very good, as indeed were Taylor and Oliver on the two earlier games yesterday. For the Kepa foul, I suspect he tied himself up in knots a bit. in that he stopped play thinking it was DOGSO, but then quickly realised there were two covering defenders between the attacker and...

Unless I am missing something obvious they just both go to head it and clash heads, not really seeing anything wrong there.

Because VAR isn't there to ensure consistency of decisions, it is to correct and clear and obvious errors. Both penalty shouts were about as subjective as you can get, my personal view is that, especially given PGMOLs very high bar when it comes to allowing physical contact to go, both players...

Don't think there was anything tactical about this, once the referee saw him looking dazed he was always going to wave the physio on, and once he's done that the player is going off even if Iraola told the physios not to go on.

He got a shot full in the face and legs looked like jelly when he tried to get up. Of course that could be good acting, but the referee has no choice but to stop the game. The bigger concern I'd have with this is the physios seemed to be waiting for Iraola's permission to go on and if that was...

I don't think either were really penalties, but nor do I think VAR should be going anywhere near either decision. Was there inconsistency in the game? Arguably yes. But VAR isn't supposed to remove inconsistencies, that isn't within its remit.

Exactly. All any referee at that level is going to do is offer encouragement for them to come back and then report what happened. Abandoning the game without giving the chance to come back could be career suicide.

Can’t do it at the time as that is for a committee to decide, not the match officials. No different to if a step 3 (example but same really applies to any level) team walked off in England, the referee would just report it and let the league deal with the response.

Feels like this is one that could have gone either way, it wasn't really at head height, yes the foot was near his head but only because he was ducking down. I don't think there could be many complaints if it had been given, but equally I don't there there is any error in not giving it. I'm...

Every competition that uses VAR will have a contingency plan of what to do if VAR goes down. Sounds like they just plugged it back in here, but if they'd cut the cable or chucked paint on it they would have to make a call on what to do.

Put both in, you'd decided to caution for the foul and not showing the yellow doesn't cancel the sanction.

There was much more speed and intensity in the Dobson challenge yesterday than there was with Dalot’s. He came flying in where Dalot’s was more just sticking his leg out. My immediate reaction yesterday was he was in big trouble, whereas for Dalot’s it took replays in slow motion for me to even...

They also didn't want 3pm kick offs going on until 6pm, and that is what would happen if C&O wasn't a criteria. As I've said many times, and I used this as a reason why VAR wouldn't work, almost every decision in football is subjective. The only real black and white decisions, ball over goal...

Yep, don't care that it is only 15C, you are having a cooling break. The problem is FIFA do so much spinning they get to the point of believing their own spin, if they keep telling themselves it is for the good of the game they will manage to forget the reality, which is that it is to line...

That was my thought, one was outside the area so VAR cannot get involved, one was inside so they can. The protocol doesn't let them use earlier decisions in the game as a baseline (perhaps it should) they can only decide was that decision inside the penalty area a clear and obvious error. And...