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I don't think there's any suggestion there was anything wrong with the board, rather it was a tripple sub with the numbers coming off and on meant he needed 186 presses of the + button, as well as checking the numbers are correct and committing the first two changes to memory. Also, the camera...

Graham Scott has now said that the Premier League have contacted him to say that the clubs are supposed to program the boards and hand to the 4th official. So if that is the case Liverpool may need to be looking at themselves rather than blaming others.

I don't think we'll see many VAR interventions this season, at least not unless the stance changes. There was one in the Spurs game where a defender booted into Marmoush that I am certain would have resulted in a review in previous seasons, but it was quickly cleared. For the Brentford one...

Not all EPL grounds have big screens

I'm comfortable with it not being intentional handling given the short distance. So we then have accidental handling, and as Maguire very clearly didn't score it can only be a goal.

As I understand it referees have been told not to give fouls if the player exaggerates the contact. Its one thing going down, but if you dramatically flop like this it is going to put seeds of doubt in the referee's mind. And with the new style minimal intervention VAR there's no way a review...

Perhaps they did have a brief discussion over comms? For all we know the AR could have been saying something like offside reset, I suspect not as he sets off running down the line pretty quickly, but who knows?

The image is more or less correct, Sky froze it at the exact moment and he was a long way off. Given how well placed the AR is, and appears to be looking straight at it, I do wonder if he hasn't deemed the touch by the keeper as a save on the basis the ball was going away from goal. And didn't...

Yes, would also be incredibly easy to have a board where the fourth official tells it vocally the numbers on and off.

Point it out to both clubs so they are aware of it. If either of them are unhappy about it you'd need to have a sensible discussion, but realistically they would just shrug it off.

Graham Scott makes a very valid point here, the boards aren't easy to use, I struggled sometimes when I had to use them and that was just numbers 1 to 16. The changes today were 38 replaced 30, 73 replaced 18, and 21 replaced 6, that's 186 presses of the + button to get to the right numbers...

Dissent, Sam Barrott told him repeatedly to go back to his line for the penalty and he didn't so out came the yellow.

It doesn't happen very often, not exactly a regular occurrence.

It did take Tim Robinson some time to sort the boards out, but then got me thinking that I thought club officials had done that previously and handed them already programmed to the 4th official? Also Andoni Iraola leaning over him moaning probably wasn't helping matters as it would have...

I don't think it would, as far as I can see the only people that have any issues with it are some referees. No complaints from the conceding club, their players, coaches, supporters, etc, and all I've seen online is comments about the keeper being a clown.

Can't really be a caution for entering without permission either, otherwise you'd have to caution every time a player left the pitch naurally and came back on without your permision. I personally think showing a lack of respect is a stretch, but if you are going to caution, and if you disallow...

The taker gets a reasonable amount of time to get in position to take it, but he can't then dally around and has to take it quickly otherwise the count will start.

I suspect this is one of those situations where opinions will differ based on the level of football people have refereed at. A much larger percentage of referees outside of the professional, and arguable even semi-pro, game will say it should be disallowed than those who do or have operated at...

They are never going to completely stop holding, pushing and jostling at set pieces. It isn't new, I haven't played 11-a-side for the best part of 20 years and it happened in every game back then (I know because at just 5'9 I was the best header of the ball in the team so had to pick up people...