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They've gone in to this tournament facing a lot of backlash and mistrust. Yet the times they can show trust they just, well, wont.

Very tight

I know that, but when the throw in was taking a long time already, I dont understand why the ref didnt start the "countdown", and if she did, why not earlier.

Not disagreeing. Very little contact and should never be given. But im asking more about the clear and obvious (thats clear and obviously wrong) aspect of it.

Clear and obvious to disallow penalty? Soft penalty for sure. But is it that wrong to overrule? And although a friendly, 90 seconds from giving penalty and restarting with dropped ball and stops half 11 seconds past the original 4 minutes. Hope it is just a friendly for this and its not...

Thought this too. And throws. Guessing the 5 seconds or however long its meant to be is ignored until tomorrow night when the WC actually starts. Left back already taking too long, gets told to go back, does so (wasting more time) and stands for a few more seconds (wasting time) before jogging...

Arsenal win = great ref (same ref done their At Madrid game and apparently was great) Arsenal lose = dare say it was because Arsenal were poor, lack attacking threat, possession, time wasting etc... its refs fault they lost.

We all know time is up when up. Imagine they scored from it beyond time. Anyway, he probably wanted to give them the time but they took so long going over to take it that it probably went well beyond the time.

I think its an awful explanation and actually I think the VAR make it worse. He is adamant it hit the hand. He looked a few times and decided very quickly it hit the hand. Im not convinced at any of the angles he was looking at. There is no clear evidence of it touching the hand. They did not...

Im not criticising him.. Far from it. Players do have the ability to shut up but dont. What I am saying is that some refs will argue back and whilst they get away with what they could say, players say something and will ultimately get a card. In this game, the ref seemed to invite confrontation...

As much as I agree with you (I did add in my post that the players were stupid if calling him out so to speak), the red on the field was during a conversation with the player. I imagine his own tone of voice spiked the players reaction further. He welcomed the confrontation and showed a red card...

Happened twice in the Liverpool vs Brentford game. Salah going off first. Then Robertson. No guard of honour but with Salah especially it was clap all 4 sides. Stand and look up emotionally, kneel down and kiss the turf. Hug every player he could see... It was ridiculous. Slowed the game...

Ref has lost control of this game in the 70th minute by giving a penalty that is so unbelievably weak. In my opinion its not a penalty. He seemingly sent off 3 players now saying things out of turn, I guess, and they shouldn't have but I feel they have every right to feel aggrieved. Several...

I saw his recent fixtures and didnt see any PL games so I stand corrected. Probably why he got this game too then (because of the experience).

Is it not odd that Josh Smith what got the Play Off final for League One having also, most recently, done a League One semi final (obviously involving one of the finalists)? I get PL have a final day of fixtures so lots of PL refs unavailable but he does not have VAR experience and they are...

Oh you can see it now... As these will be implemented at the world cup too, sometime during game round 1 on a social network page full of armchair refs, I bring you "that should be a 2nd yellow. [Insert player/team] was affected on some random date in March with a 2nd yellow. Its just a...

Sounds highly like the situation where Celtic scored their 2nd goal. If not, have a look at that goal and you should get a good feel for this law.

That may be true but he didnt signal that time was up. It was extremely clear on all available clocks that a minute was still to be played based on the board that says minimum amount. They'll have coms recorded so hopefully we will know the truth soon. Whatever happens, the SFA have not come...

Id argue VAR drawing the lines here and broadcasting it, showing onside (even though we know the affected player was onside), is worse. Its created an opportunity for theorists to claim corruption.

Mines £95 this season. £65 to local and £30 to national (unless paid late then it goes to £45). As mentioned, I can do two games to cover that with the fees involved but the reason the fees shot up is because they took travelling fee away. This particular youth league has sent me in the past 30...