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Quite a day for MLS discipline related to referee matters. MLS suspended FC Cincinnati defender (and MLS Defender of the Year) Matt Miazga three games, which would include the MLS Cup Final if FCC wins tomorrow, for illegally entering the referees locker room area. I have copied and pasted the...

To be fair, by “his terms” that may not necessarily mean an elite level match like a Bundesliga match. Maybe it’s just a low level cup match or something like that. But if it were me, I’d feel like I would do everything possible to come back for a decent level game. I do agree that he’s very...

Brych was officiating his 344th Bundesliga game, which tied a record. He was injured in the 33rd minute of the Eintracht Frankfurt-Stuttgart game, with 28 year old Patrick Schwengers stepping in at the start of the 2nd half in his Bundesliga debut. Best wishes to Dr. Brych on his recovery...

ANYTHING like what has been mentioned SHOULD always be a straight red sendoff. Imagine going to work on Monday and calling a coworker or a vendor one of these terms. You’d be walked out immediately. Yet it’s accepted in the Premier League. There’s your issue.

Is OFFINABUS a three match suspension? If it is, then the distinction between a 2CT and a straight red is significant. Good on Anthony Taylor for dealing with it in any case.

The 2CT was borderline. Most of us watching and commenting on a US based forum THINK it would have been a caution, but no way to really know if it WOULD have been a caution. At the end of the day, Mexico got the benefit of the play. They got a free kick 25 yards from goal and a Honduran player...

From the "something you don't see every day" file. Concacaf Nations League quarterfinals second leg between Mexico and Honduras. Denil Maldonado of Honduras is on a yellow at 94'. In the 115th minute, he commits a foul in the Mexican defending half of the field but advantage appears to be...

I'm just trying to understand how someone would think that people who publicly admit they don't understand the most basic of the Laws would suddenly be able to successfully adjudicate plays on the field. As others have said, then you have the idiots on social media who think they are right and...

The most egregious example of burying the lede I’ve seen in a long time. Talk about sweeping it under the rug. Shameful.

We’ll see if this has any more success than the Respect the Ref campaign has had in curbing abuse toward referees. I think my prediction on this is pretty obvious.

From grassroots to the elite level, the belief of fans that they can have a go at officials with impunity is getting worse. Example from last night. I’m mentoring a young crew on a U19 friendly. AR2 correctly keeps the flag down on a possible offside because the attacker in an offside position...

I’ve said it before-a few of these people who post about being corrupt should be sued for defamation. Accounts are tied to emails, so it would be easy to tie back to a person. Get a few people liable for damages, publicize it, and we’ll see how tough people are to accuse corruption behind a...

I take no joy in saying this, but I think we will see a major physical altercation involving a match official in a high-profile professional league before the Champions League final. The attitude toward officials is extremely toxic right now, and there will be an incident that causes someone to...

Sartini has claimed he was joking, but the idea of “joking” about a referee’s death is not close to appropriate. I don’t see any material difference between this and “I’m going to kill him”, as we have learned what vague and indirect language can lead to in the last few years. To continue the...

As @es1 stated, there was a VAR review for offside on the ensuing LAFC counterattack, and the goal was disallowed. I read the tweet and tried to think of a context where Sartini’s comments are close to acceptable. I can’t think of one. Sartini is absolutely known as a loose cannon at the best...

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As I’ve said, we have swung too far to having to “check a bunch of boxes” to get to a send off. In this case, too many people are just saying “well, he didn’t connect him at his knee with a straight leg studs up, so not a red card”. Havertz connects with a lot of his body weight at speed on a...

I’ve watched it again. I still have no idea how the Havertz challenge was not a red. Havertz gets the plant leg with a lot of his body weight after flying/launching. If we are at a point where the only way you can get a red is to nail someone in the knee with the studs straight-legged, then I...

For those who are saying the Havertz challenge was a caution-what else would have been needed for you to call that a SFP red? High speed, high force into the plant leg. Havertz comes lunging/flying in. I fail to see how that isn’t endangering the safety of the player. I’m a neutral in this...

It was offside, but yet another one of those plays where if you were just looking at the play without using Hawkeye lines you'd probably have the play "stand as called" (as I'd prefer offside positions adjudged instead of using the lines, but I know that's not going to happen in England or UEFA...