Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

kippaxwarrior said:
The point is that in both cricket and rugby not only is the decision clearly explained to the players it's explained to the crowd and the TV audience so there is clear transparency on why it was made. This is the same in The NFL as well.

People may not agree with the decision but the reason why it was made isn't hidden unlike The Premier League. Unless you count that VAR show with Owen and Webb cherry picking 3 or 4 decisions every month
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Not sure decisions are hidden. Most people know why decisions are made, they just don’t agree with them.

For example, the Newcastle penalty yesterday. We all know it was given because Taylor thought Kwee took out the Newcastle player, who nipped in, whilst trying to clear the ball.

VAR had a long look at it and decided it wasn’t a clear and obvious error. (I would have overturned the decision, had I been the VAR official).

However, there was minimal contact, and at present, VAR tries to uphold the ref’s decision, unless clear and obvious.

The difference between football and especially cricket, but rugby to some extent too, is that a lot of calls are at the subjective behest of the referee.

Having technology doesn’t remove the question of how much contact is enough contact for it to be a foul.
 
I listened to the commentary on a particular controversial rugby decision, and the first thing the pundit said was "we have to remember this ref gives them decisions, another ref might not, that's just the way it is"

In football that plays out with the pundit immediately calling for consistency and how wrong the ref has got it. IE generally no respect for the judgement of the ref, across the board they are undermined. And it is judgement a lot of the time.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
I listened to the commentary on a particular controversial rugby decision, and the first thing the pundit said was "we have to remember this ref gives them decisions, another ref might not, that's just the way it is"

In football that plays out with the pundit immediately calling for consistency and how wrong the ref has got it. IE generally no respect for the judgement of the ref, across the board they are undermined. And it is judgement a lot of the time.
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It doesn’t help that most pundits seem to wear it as a badge of honour that they don’t understand the laws of the game these days.

And rather than take it upon themselves to try and educate themselves a bit, they seem to think it more helpful to talk endlessly about what the decision might have been in their day.
 
Stephen230 said:
It doesn’t help that most pundits seem to wear it as a badge of honour that they don’t understand the laws of the game these days.

And rather than take it upon themselves to try and educate themselves a bit, they seem to think it more helpful to talk endlessly about what the decision might have been in their day.
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Pundits, commentators, players, managers - very few of them have a proper understanding of the laws. Remember Fernandez earlier this year, betraying the referee that Rashford hadn't touched the ball, implying that in his (Fernandez) opinion, it wasn't offside.

Referees are selective too. Law 2 makes it an offence for a goalkeeper to hold the ball for more than six seconds before releasing it into play. This clause may as well not be there.
 
Bar a few yellows he should given, no complaints today. Had it not been for Neville shouting about, nobody would have known about the pen, but VAR did what it’s there for.

No complaints today
 
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