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From what I read an approach was made to the FA which was approved by PGMOL. As Martyn Ziegler in The Times is reporting “Questions for PL and PGMOL now about possible fatigue + whether referees working in Gulf states for one-off matches causes risk of conflict of interest” I don’t really see...

Fair point, as the 6hr UAE is a bit longer I think, But Times journalist like Martin Ziegler are being mischievous with their line of attack, about them being tired. They know full well, people reading their articles and tweets will link the UAE trip and the City group. Howard Webb should have...

Now being reported in The Sunday Times and The Independent, as predicted. These officials should have been nowhere near games this weekend, and it very questionable whether it should be allowed anyway. Howard Webb still has a lot of questions to answer, as the explanation is dubious at best, and...

Really hard to understand that, if so why was the flag up, why didn’t Diaz celebrate, why was the whole stadium cheering. ‘When your in a hole stop digging’, as these explanations are not helping at all.

Until we see some evidence there is still a theory, as Gary Neville alluded too, that no check was made and no lines were drawn, and they they restarted the game too quickly. Maybe Darren England and Michael Oliver were jet lagged from their game in UAE on Thursday night? We need to see the...

Just watching MOTD again. AR clearly puts his flag up, Diaz goes to celebrate, but then stops, as he sees the flag. Crowd audibly jeering. VAR screen states, ‘checking disallowed goal - offside’. At what part of any of this does the VAR team think the goal has been given? This ‘explanation’ is...

Sorry, this doesn’t add up, it was clear watching it that the goal had been disallowed.

Apologies, my mistake, I will sit out RefChat for a week!

Thanks for clarifying 👍

Why did the AR put his flag up? I thought they have been told to wait? So the whole team have got that decision wrong, that’s really poor all round

Will be repercussion surely after the game

Very harsh first booking for Jota.

Don't think it was obvious at all. Really need to see the line drawn to confirm.

Absolutely, none of this mulling over the meaning of ‘clear & obvious’ nonsense. That needs to change to ‘not 100% sure about that, you should have another look and make a call’. That what I think the conversation was today, (probably helped the VAR was an Aussie, a bit more confident in giving...

Excellent use of VAR despite all of its recent problems. VAR had the balls to get the ref to have another look, and we wouldn't have all those problems over the past few weeks.

Watching the Liverpool game and I think Simon Hooper is one of the best referees in the Premier League. Absolutely no drama, good rapport with the players, great positioning. Was a real shame that he was hung out to dry because of the VAR error at Man Utd Wolves, but he installs a lot more...

Great decision, and I did it last season as I needed a break as well! But duty of care is important at ages, especially youth football

Again calls into question the dynamics of VAR. We should assume Tony Harrington applied what he thought was the LOTG, but was he swayed by talking to a very senior ref, or other factors. Howard Webb needs to address these issues pretty quickly imo, as I can only see these spiralling out of...

Amazed MOTD never showed this challenge on Wilson? Seemed worthy at least a bit of analysis? https://x.com/lewissffc1/status/1697980947851882989?s=46 Thought the whole debate on the offside was very protective of Michael Oliver, can’t just completely blame VAR for that?

I think Micahel Oliver and VAR were trying to be too clever with their interpretation of clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent or making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball He jumped over the...