Match of the Day - 2018/19

[jimharri]

Pity for Sparky.

 

[blue saturday]

+ Quote how does he convince chairmen that he can improve a team

 

[kinky's boots]

+ Quote how does he convince chairmen that he can improve a team

He tells them the training is below par, they need a taffy back room staff and that they need to be more dynamic

 

[Vienna_70]

Which is why VAR wont solve all the problems people think it will. It all hinges on what is selected to be reviewed in the first place

It would have disallowed Wolves' goal yesterday.

 

[KentBlue]

Pity for Sparky.

If the Saints do sack him he'll only be unemployed for a couple of days before another club comes forward and puts him in charge. Probably Huddersfield.

 

[richardtheref]

What I picked up was tubhead Shearer did not think it was a penalty for the tug on Aguero. However, during the Everton game he thought it was harsh to send Smith off for the tug on Walcott but that it was a yellow card offence. The only real difference, in my opinion, was one was in the box & one wasn't.

A few years ago a friend of mine was assistant ref on one of our games & I asked him why Phil Dowd did not give a pen for a shirt pull on Sergio. He said that Dowd had said it was not enough of a pull to award a pen. The suggestion being that if it had been outside he would have given it. Not sure why premier refs feel the laws are different inside the box.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

What I picked up was tubhead Shearer did not think it was a penalty for the tug on Aguero. However, during the Everton game he thought it was harsh to send Smith off for the tug on Walcott but that it was a yellow card offence. The only real difference, in my opinion, was one was in the box & one wasn't.

A few years ago a friend of mine was assistant ref on one of our games & I asked him why Phil Dowd did not give a pen for a shirt pull on Sergio. He said that Dowd had said it was not enough of a pull to award a pen. The suggestion being that if it had been outside he would have given it. Not sure why premier refs feel the laws are different inside the box.

Have to agree on that. How many times has it been said it would be a foul anywhere else on the pitch, but not in the box.
Saying that, does it mean refs are giving too many outside of the penalty area, that are not really fouls.

 

[mccity]

Have to agree on that. How many times has it been said it would be a foul anywhere else on the pitch, but not in the box.
Saying that, does it mean refs are giving too many outside of the penalty area, that are not really fouls.

Possibly, but the reality I believe is the flip.

That is, the fact that conceding a foul anywhere inside a box near the goal is worthy of a free shot at goal for the other team, 12 yards out with only a keeper forced to stay on his line to block it.

Either referees need to be stricter enforcing the rules, or there needs to be something other than a penalty given for some fouls in the area.

Like a short corner perhaps

 

[laserblue]

The worst, of course, was the treatment of SWP in a derby match when 5 or 6 rag players were booked for systematically fouling him.

I recall that rag players took turns in clattering SWP until one was booked and another took over. A few were booked including Ronaldo who, iirc, was given a second yellow for handball later in the game which was at least a bit of Karma.

 

[mat]

If the Saints do sack him he'll only be unemployed for a couple of days before another club comes forward and puts him in charge. Probably Rags.

Edited for yer

:)