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Good shout - I hadn’t broken the code at the time of my reply (looked to tell you the truth)!.

Just because 2 pen decisions may have gone the other way, does not mean he had a stinker. That’s a comment that could easily be made by players, managers, spectators and armchair viewers. I would expect more constructive comments from a fellow Referee (or Observer).

I don’t think you should ever worry it will look sh#t to the Observer for something that needs to happen, especially if you could have incorrectly sent the player off. Which would have been worse. In events you got away with it, but you put yourself under a lot of pressure.

Very harsh imo.

I wouldn’t say they rely on VAR, but they are clearly always aware there is a back stop! Perhaps that’s the same thing, but I would like to think there is a subtle difference.

From the angle behind looking towards the defending/wrexham half it looks like it could be a yellow, but looking at the angle looking upfield it looks like a red. I’m content with a red - he should have just tried to play the ball - always helps!

Only have to have watched the Preston NE v Oxford game last night to see that although there was some grappling (nothing more than usual over the years), the PL is at a different higher level. The amount I saw at PNE is as about as much as I see at grass roots. However, if they continue not to...

Though I would say v difficult to be consistent with that kind of scenario. My feeling is that in many cases it should just be treated as a coming together/normal football contact.

Not Oliver ?

Ridiculous about players wanting to go on strikes when they play less time in the FA Cup than they ever used to & want all the trimmings of everything they receive - chauffeur driven cars to games/personal PA’s/pampered etc. It would not surprise me that with smaller squads of players in the...

Clubs consider there is often a breakdown between Referees & themselves, but there is now becoming a disconnect between a Manager & spectators. The Manager dictates a tactical injury which spectators/neutral/television public do not want. They say VAR is killing the game, but this is too -...

I truly do understand where you are coming from, but I think that a hair pull has to be a red card, accidental or not - it happened. It may not be the most violent of acts in most cases we have seen, perhaps not even violent at all, but I think with the Laws covering the World for both male &...

I get it, but I think we have to examine ‘consistency, so in my world, it’s where a Referee does something different from exactly the same or a very similar incident/situation. So in the situation described, if the Referee did 2 different things from the same position during the game, then that...

No territorial advantage so allows play to continue. He could have stopped it, or since it was taken from the incorrect place, awarded it to the opposition, but really, is that what we want to see.

I can’t see why they can’t. I would say the most challenging thing for a Referee on their own is being able to remember all the idiosyncrasies of the Laws of the Game which are rarely used eg the incorrect outcome of the penalty kick involving Rochdale & Scunthorpe with 4 officials (not that I...

Doesn’t look like they are looking at the goalkeeper issue and yet it’s important to get dealt with. Also, I think they need to bring back goal kicks taken from the side of the fop where the ball went out - just like corner kicks. The idea that current law speeds things up didn’t work.

I wonder what an Observer would have made of it. You were very brave to administer a red with both teams surprised, but as you say, you have seen a clip & are comfortable with the decision you made. For me, if I hadn’t seen what you had seen, then I would have asked you some questions including...

At the game between Stoke & Oxford last night (I think it was very soon after the Sheffield Utd v Coventry game finished with an earlier kick off), AR signalled a foul throw & Referee supported. Player incensed and clapped the AR along with some dialogue towards him & the Referee, whereby the...

Although changing the game, but the same topic, I was at a Contrib game last Saturday when a similar incident occurred just before half time close to/within the centre circle. Away goes to head the ball, whereas Home attempts to play it with a raised foot, but made contact with the Away player...

Definitely agree with all of that. I have been saying to many people over a long period of time that there are some world class Referees in Europe & around the World, but few & far between & spectators should be mindful of what they wish for when they complain about PL Referees. Why on earth it...