Man Utd vs Man City

[socal lurker]

Refs iust can't win at times!

at times?

 

[bloovee]

...... The more I think about it the more I think this makes a fantastic training clip for somewhat experienced Rs-especially if there are good images from more or less the AR’s vantage point.)

 

[bloovee]

I'm not too keen on finding a reason to send a player off for balance (or game management). Giving free kicks in a non critical area or even a caution is often acceptable but sending a player off and giving penalties are just a step too far.

Let's say Foden did not kick out at Fernandes. If Fernandes was send off for his actions there would have been uproar. With Foden kick out, sending Fernandes off would just be to even things out which for me is not a thing.

Uproar from whom?

 

[ChasObserverRefDeveloper]

3 pages of this thread instead of 6 pages.

Or even no thread at all

 

[RustyRef]

I was going off the EFL site. However, I don't know anything about him, so guessing this info below is incomplete or too brief

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No, it is correct that he has been a VAR, but he isn't a specialist VAR. I'm not sure there are any such creatures after the failed experiment with Mike Dean and Lee Mason.

 

[RustyRef]

Graham Scott wrote a pretty detailed column about how the process should have gone forward in the VAR booth and where he thinks the failures were. It’s behind a paywall, butnI believed this shared link will let people read it. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/75...hared_gift_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta

This bit strikes me as worrying, pretty sure that isn't in the VAR protocol.

 

[RustyRef]

If VAR had not been introduced into the Premier League, what would the outcome have been?

As it was given offside people would have just accepted it as Haaland looked from the TV angle. Had the goal been given the broadcasters would have drawn their own lines, incorrectly, said the assistant was wrong and demanded there should be technology to help the officials.

 

[CaptainsPlease]

It's worse than we thought, Donohue and Antrobus completely forgot to check whether Fernandez had committed an offside offence. They only checked for a touch by him in case it made Haaland offside.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cv4g5rp56p55o

There is also discussion of the Fernandes-Foden incident here.

 

[Archer]

Used that horse/zebra metaphor at work today and sounded WELL smart. Cheers whoever it was.

 

[socal lurker]

It's worse than we thought, Donohue and Antrobus completely forgot to check whether Fernandez had committed an offside offence. They only checked for a touch by him in case it made Haaland offside.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cv4g5rp56p55o

Yikes. That makes it an even bigger miss than only considering interfering with play and interfering with an opponent. I can understand how an AR could miss that but it's really hard to understand how a VAR team missed it that completely--especially once they were looking at whether Enzo had a touch.

EDIT to add: Hmm. Could it have something to do with the two systems? The system told them that Halland was on, and they didn't focus on anyone else because the system didn't tell them he was off.