Recent content by Cassandra

Indeed but it didn’t stop them from giving it as the explanation.

I’d guess that the ‘official’ argument would be that rhe ball was not travelling towards goal when Savinho was fouled, just as it was in the final. Not sure I’d agree with that argument but it is a better case than it was in the final.

I agree in concept with VAR, it works in other sports, reasonably well. There is a triple problem, in my view with its implementation. 1 It has exposed the limitations in the way the laws are written - almost ignoring the spirit of the game and trying to be like an instruction manual for...

Saw an image of Putin in India with a man standing in front of him with a ceremonial sword ………..

Public inquiries must be the worst waste of time and money, never get the guys at the top brought to justice.

I’d agree that there probably isn’t a conspiracy as such but referees like all of us have their biases, conscious and subconscious. If the ratetheref forum represents rank and file referees then their view of Saturday’s referee is that he had a very good game but was arguably let down by var...

The amount of time the BBC give to Refotm it is not really in Farage’s interest to shut it down, just to turn even more into a lap dog.

I expect it will be defenestrated soon as a lesson to other AI robots.

In my view there is no right or wrong decision, both allowing the goal or disallowing the goal have reasonable arguments.

So, if Mr Trump can sue for $1bn, how much should we sue for?

Just back from a remembrance service. Sang ‘O God our help in ages past’ and I always feel hopeful when singing the line ‘..and our defence is sure’ on a match day.

I found it particularly depressing reading the refereeing forum accounts of the refereeing on the City / Bournemouth game, one described it as a perfect display of refereeing and others agreed it. I suspect that Taylor didn’t see the holding so that’s down to Tierney. Otherwise their were...

And some referees?

I don’t think Taylor can be blamed for allowing the Bournemouth goal, on first viewing it looked to me something and nothing, it was only on seeing different angles that the arm pull was apparent. Tierney on the other hand should have seen it and brought it to Taylor’s attention.

Halloween!