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controversial opinion from me - we don’t need to see change as a result of this. This type of injury can happen at any time, it just so happens it came from a delayed flag. There’s been minimal serious injuries since this was brought in 5 years ago and there doesn’t need to be an overreaction...

Quite often threads are highlighting controversial incidents but sometimes it’s worth highlighting excellent refereeing. High tempo game, lots at stake and a big atmosphere and I thought Andy Madley was fantastic throughout and you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise with the card count...

I don’t think there’s many referees who wouldn’t go Red in real time. 2 footed, off the ground, out of control. Referencing the OP, touching the ball is irrelevant

Listening to Don Goodman talking about that decision was painful. Couldn’t be easier to give a red there

I’m not sure what relevance these posts are. Yes, for on the spot decisions we might have to make the occasional educated guess but we’re talking VAR with slow motion replays with multiple angles. There’s no guesswork going on, it’s they don’t know the answer so we’ll stick with the referees...

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not questioning how the conclusion is reached. But if an a player attempts to throw something at an official it should be irrelevant if he hits him or not. The only failure there is accuracy but the intent was the same. He wanted to hit him, he just simply missed. Throw...

Why should his punishment be less because he wasn’t accurate? He’s attempted to throw something at an official, whether he hits him or misses him should be irrelevant

No referee is cautioning for that

This really frustrated me. We want to stop abuse of referees and you’ve got Shearer praising a player for chasing a referee, it’s laughable. It was like listening to someone read out fan tweets on comms

Very nice of the club to provide some learning materials for younger referees. Im 100% sure that’s definitely the reason for the twitter post and nothing else ….

You could have stopped at ‘pundits/fans should just read the laws’

In some cases I agree that should happen but I’m not sure this is one of them. It’s definitely not a penalty but with there being contact I don’t think it’s conclusively a dive. Not enough for retrospective punishment anyway

Also a Boro fan so slightly biased … In real time I thought it was a penalty, from the side it looked as if he was pushed but from this angle I think we got away with one. just before this the referee missed a blatant penalty in the way of Boro. Maybe the referee missed got in his own mind...

Years

In the last few years he’s totally lost the plot

It’s nothing but a red card at any level. Shocking decision

I don’t know why the referee bothered waiting. if the team want to be that petulant, I’m going home and watching the football with my feet up!

You have the main points but don’t prolong it. AR’s hear almost the same thing week in week out. They switch off and stare into space if you say too much. Short and sweet, straight to the point. Make more of a show of it if you’ve got an observer.

You’ll hear a lot of referees (myself included) who will say ‘no surprises’. If the keeper is just off the line and nobody appeals, play on. It’s not right in terms of LOTG but you have to apply some common sense and not go looking for arguments when nobody is expecting a decision.

Possibly the easiest red card you could give at the top level for offensive language. Really disappointing to see the referee blatantly ignore it