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And yet their Manager considers it would have been a goal if the Championship had VAR (don’t think so!). I think he is just trying to save his job/appease his supporters. Perhaps he should consider not having a player positioned in front of the goalkeeper in the first place.

I believe RustyRef commented on this issue a week or so ago & said that it is practice on the EFL for just numbers to be taken (I could be wrong), so if this has been the case, then it would not be appropriate to penalise the 4th official when everyone has been doing it. However, in light of the...

I would be happy to accept that it was a dive, though was it a foul before the dive, albeit ‘soft’ .

That’s a good question & not easy to decide without actually being involved in the actual game, but I would know.

I think this is a bit more debatable. I was always taught that Match Control is paramount. However, what this actually means will differ from Referee to Referee in their interpretation & how they will deal with it. However, if they focus too much on what some may consider as match control and...

A broken neck and the time it took for his treatment was probably significantly less than a goalkeeper being treated for a tickle!!

And imho this includes allowing too much stoppage time & then surpassing it when very often there is no need.

The Maguire incident will have mixed views, so by that standard I don’t think anyone can say it was a clear & obvious error (of course ex Man Utd Neville dismissed the claims of a penalty immediately from his commentary position lol!). Unusually perhaps, VAR only took seconds to turn down during...

Safe Refereeing is quickly becoming an over-used term similar to what the game expects & I agree with Big Cat. I expect to see a climb down on letting things go when the temperature of the game is high, but not at any other time & on these occasions I wouldn’t be using the term safe refereeing...

What I find the most disappointing is that the Laws of the Game were meant to be simplified for all to understand & although I believe IFAB had the right intention, they have just made the Laws for handball & offside overly unwieldy. Having said that, we do not want to go overly simplified eg if...

Absolutely agree with you about Graham Scott. He writes for a few organisations including Substack which until recently I had never heard of. Although not a Referee but a commentator and also very good is Clive Tyldesley.

Keith Hackett is a previous PL Referee & Ex head of PGMOL but I often don’t agree with what he sees.

Bit harsh to go on something you haven’t seen for yourself.

Me too and I am always there for it, but on this occasion he just said xx bench side ok.

Absolutely with MOAS, which made me wonder. Although the comments of others is accepted, during the PMD I didn’t think it would have been appropriate to have asked, especially when the L7 had some difficult moments & wouldn’t have done him any favours had I asked the Referee why he appointed him...

To hopefully put the conspiracy theorists to bed, it was just me being interested why a Referee would place a L7 on a Senior Line for his first game on a Step 5 League (despite being AR1 on MOAS) & I believed to be a more experienced Referee (& is a L5) on the other line. I can only imagine the...

Ok - thank you & at least I know/had it confirmed. In the end, a short while ago I went to the appointments officer of the league the AR I wanted to know about was appointed to & he came straight back to me with the information I was seeking. If I was that determined if the AO wasn’t around etc...

That’s the point I was attempting to make - it’s not deliberate handball. However, whilst the laws have attempted to clarify with natural/unnatural arm positions - some are just taking it too far & not taking into account that if they didn’t have their arms out for balance they would fall flat...

I think we are likely to see that if the same incident that happened yesterday with the Wolves player than the Referees in the World Cup will be awarding a penalty. However, in my world of ‘deliberate’ handball, never in a million years. We have got it right with what the Laws were originally...

Is there any form of database that I can tap into to find out the level of a Referee without having to either ask the person himself/herself or the County FA?