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Definitely not a penalty in my opinion, even the Arsenal fans I know don't think it was and they are usually very quick to moan. What isn't open to any kind of debate is that it definitely wasn't a clear and obvious error to not give a penalty, and I have a feeling that had it been given VAR...

He's already refereeing in the Premier League and making it look like child's play. Perhaps Tom Bramall isn't who he actually says he is 😂

Agree with this, the first one he's lucky he didn't really make contact. I'd like to think that after I saw him get up and race towards another challenge I'd be at best screaming at him to be careful, or even better just deciding to give a free kick for the first one. But once he makes that...

When I managed I always said to the players that if you don't say anything to the referee you can't be punished. Open your mouth to protest and you run the risk of a card, and unless you know the characteristics of the referee you don't know what colour that might be. To coin the old phrase you...

Somewhat ironic that the thing he has been sitting on for most of the season got him offside 😂

It really doesn't matter whether they indicated 5 or 7, with the score at 4-0 in a cup final both teams would be perfectly happy with zero. Which is very different to the Celtic vs Hearts game as the argument there is it didn't actually finish and the referee blew before the minimum added time...

There couldn't have been any more, no one tackled each other. It really was one of the worst football games ever seen.

That seems to be becoming increasingly common. It used to be almost universally the case that the final referee would come from one of the quarter final games, although that obviously isn't an option in the play offs. But that concept seems to have gone out of the window.

Then they potentially get consequenced, but I'm not getting involved in fan based nonsense.

Because no elite referee should watch a monitor from multiple angles and still get the decision wrong. As opposed to the referee who gets one look at it. There will be outliers where it is extremely subjective, like the example in this thread, but generally speaking there shouldn't be any...

There was a spell of this happening at the top level, then I'm pretty sure the referees told them they wouldn't allow it

Exactly that, and I think people often confuse the money in the Premier League and money the FA have. Yes they have a lot of cash surplus but most not for profit orgs do as they have bills to pay and have to hold a contingency, and in the FA's case that includes a very expensive stadium to...

Not where I live, it barely buys one 😒

It's a red card but it came very soon after the head of PGMOL publicly chucked a referee under the bus for a decision that wasn't really wrong. That is almost certainly going to subconsciously play on the minds of the officials. They just don't know where they stand and I'm really starting to...

Fees are set by leagues, they are nothing to do with the FA. If you aren't happy with the fee your league are offering you can campaign to them to increase it, or vote with your feet and move to a different league (subject to availability). Out of interest I've gone back through my old Access...

Well PGMO have seemingly said that the goal should have been disallowed, so in this case they are backing VAR and blaming the referee. But I suspect Howard Webb will be playing the "what the game expects" and "what stakeholders" have told us cards, which doesn't necessarily mean that Michael...

That applies to most laws but not substitutions as far as I can tell. Law 3, as below, is clear that the substitution is completed when a substitute enters the field of play and the replaced player becomes a substituted player. Unless repeat substitutions are in use I can't see any provision...

I'm playing email catch up and have just seen the email from the FA on this, it is a global increase, nothing to do with any individual CFA.

So you've never heard the phrase "let's get our stories straight" in a referee changing room? I have, many times, usually before the observer enters.

Exactly that, it is like football fans complaining about season ticket rises when they haven't risen for 10 years. Looking at the leagues I have officiated on referee fees have all gone up by more than 50% over the past 20 years. Once has gone up by very close to 100% in that time, so on that...