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Graham Scott described it very well I thought today. He refuted the argument that referees have become reliant on VAR to actually make decisions, but said the lack of VAR might well affect their mental fortitude. Pre-VAR if you made a mistake you just had to put it to the back of your mind...

That's a surprise, a thread that has nothing to do with Man City brings up a Man City incident. Who would have thought it? There have been 15 FA Cup games this weekend, 2 missed offsides in 15 games isn't anything out of the ordinary, just as we usually see one VAR involvement in offside in an...

If the keeper was in his penalty area I would agree with you that the path of the ball would be a question mark, but with no keeper he has an empty goal to shoot at no matter how wide he might be.

It has been confirmed as DOGSO. As I said earlier, the vast majority of KMDs are made on pitch without VAR intervention, which kind of blows a hole in any argument that officials rely on VAR. it is just that those given on-pitch don’t draw as much attention, especially as they are deemed as...

I still don't get the fall back argument as the majority of key decisions are made on field rather than via a VAR review. No official is going to see that handball and think they need help, rather for whatever reason they just haven't seen it properly. Having seen the replay I can kind of...

I'm tempted to bookmark this page and then refer back to it whenever people say we don't need VAR 😂 4 KMDs and 3 wrong isn't a good look. I do wonder if they were told about the offside goal at half time and that has hit their confidence, it shouldn't but I've certainly been there where you...

That just doesn't happen, CFAs cannot remove a suspension without an appeal, even more so when that suspension was issued by another county. As I suspected, there is far more than this than meets the eye and someone hasn't been telling the truth and the whole truth.

In England if a referee commits a purely refereeing error, e.g. fails to proficiently apply the laws of the game, they will just get a suspension from refereeing. But not submitting cards is viewed as an act of misconduct, therefore the suspension is usually from all football.

You may do, but it happens. I'd say in pretty much every game I did at step 2 that was in the pre-match instructions, and I would hazard a guess it is the same with the EFL and EPL referees.

You don't know the background though. He could have been warned repeatedly previously, he could have told the panel he will never send cards in, we just don't know. Perhaps he requested a personal hearing then didn't turn up, perhaps he even didn't turn up for a second time. I sat on a...

That's a good point, a lot of referees will say if there is no appeal from the keeper they aren't interested in a flag.

When the CFA realise a referee hasn't been submitting cards they will go back through all games that referee has taken charge of and look for any cards issued. If there are none alarm bells will be ringing and they will try to find out if any cards were issued in those games and not just...

Certainly looks to be offside, but probably quite tight if they got the lines out due to the defender's head.

I had one in a step 3 game, being observed, where I'd lost a player who'd committed DOGSO in the crowd of players after it. There were two defenders chasing the attacker, and in my panic at realising I didn't know which one it was I managed to lose both. Blind panic at this point so went to...

Shouldn't be hard, but my point is it is nothing to do with the match officials and this is a refereeing forum. But as I said, I suspect the EFL were perfectly happy with both keepers in yellow.

None of this has anything to do with the match officials though, it is all agreed before the game between the clubs and EFL. Perhaps the officials asked the 'Boro keeper to change and they hadn't brought their first team kit, after all why would they when the colours have been agreed in...

Don't disagree, but it might have been out of the match officials' hands if the kits had been agreed beforehand between the clubs and EFL.

It isn't ideal, but how often does a keeper go forward for a set piece? One in a hundred games, probably less, and certainly less in league games in February, pretty much unheard of I would say. I've no idea what colour both teams various GK shirts are, but there have been cases in the past...

Yeah, you could be right, he might have had VAR and AVAR appointments in the Conference League.

That's a strange argument as it was Matt Donohue who recommended the review, and unless I've missed something obvious he isn't a FIFA badged referee?