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The referee has never made a DOGSO decision at any point otherwise he would have given as a bare minimum a free kick. He can't possibly have thought "going away from goal so no red card", as for that to be considered there has to be an offence committed in the first place, and in this situation...

Gave a penalty that was never a penalty in a million years once. The first half had been difficult with a lot of niggly fouls, so I decided I’d keep a tight rein early on in the second half and just give any soft fouls. Unfortunately the first soft one of the second half was in the penalty area...

Almost anyone I’ve seen talking about this incident thinks it’s a red card. That seems a pretty serious missed incident? I get what yourself and other members are saying about how it doesn’t fit the protocol, but the way read the protocol it still does fit it as a missed incident. As was...

The VAR protocol mentions “clear and obvious errors” OR “serious missed incidents” can be reviewed. Given no handball was given, surely this is a textbook missed incident?

From the replays shown in that clip there is nothing conclusive. It looks like it might hit his arm but you can’t tell with 100% certainty, so if the onfield decision is goal then that’s what you go with. Jamie Redknapp actually gives a very fair analysis of it.

With being proactive on some of the first throws you can then find that some players will start to look to you for guidance later on in the game with an “Am I alright here ref?” kind of look as well

Slightly related to your last one I’ve never had to give anyone a “second” yellow (with them having received one during the game already) during a penalty shootout. Come to think of it I don’t think I’ve had to give any yellows during a penalty shootout. Also, it’s not something that’s never...

I’m not sure on how it’s been done in previous years, but does two and a half weeks before not seem quite early to be publicly announcing the appointment?

I think there were 2-3 missed cautions for Real Madrid players in the first half but I don't want to criticise the ref too much as I think he was on a hiding to nothing before a ball was even kicked tonight and overall he generally did well in an extremely challenging match. Real Madrid were a...

I had nothing better to do yesterday so watched this game for some reason. Not sure there's enough there for a foul for me, but as soon as the referee gave the foul I thought it was a clear DOGSO.

Shirt seemed to be made of a poor material to rip that easily. Not sure there was much in it for me.

Michael Stewart has never been my favourite pundit but his referee bashing seems to have got a lot worse this season, to the extent it’s almost concerning how worked up he seems to get about it. I can accept that watching this incident in the ground live before seeing any replays he might not...

I wasn’t entirely convinced of a red watching it live with the replays they showed during the game, but when they showed the angle from side on at half time (the one in the Twitter comment) that was enough for me to be satisfied.

That angle is far more conclusive. I’ve no issues with disallowing it now, having seen that.

Agreed. Does it hit his standing foot? Maybe - but there’s nothing conclusive from any angle I’ve seen. As Willie Collum said recently after a couple of incidents up here, you need 100% conclusive proof to overturn a factual decision like that.

I agree that it doesn’t show the official in the best light this month. However if you’re going to do a programme like this then you can’t just ignore wrong decisions and never talk about them. Those first two clips that are discussed were always going to be included because they were such key...

Any act of fouling a player is technically unsporting, so I don’t buy the “unsporting behaviour” justification that some referees use to give a yellow card for in these situations.

I think this game was slightly different because Oliver was due to referee it on the initial date before it was called off (ie well before the Arsenal red card). If someone else was then appointed then no doubt one of the tabloid newspapers would run a “Michael Oliver AXED from Merseyside derby”...

I’ve still no idea what the original onfield decision was. I had half an eye on this game in the pub on Wednesday night so only saw it when the VAR was reviewing the incident. After the OFR the referee seemed to signal for a dropped ball (as if he’d given the penalty and then over turned his...

Just for balance I’ve been at a few games up here that Craig Napier and Lloyd Wilson have refereed since they both came out a couple of years ago. They got abuse at points during these games but it was never homophobic at any point.