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[halfcenturyup]

That’s a good shout, now that I think about it.

By the way, I think you were stretching the meaning of tolerant in your previous post. ;-)

Well maybe, but you are enough to make anyone crazy :)

 

[halfcenturyup]

Think it's politically correct. It was women. No batsman anymore and batslady dont quite sound right. :-(

Edit: Fuck me, that's a bit too big :O

 

[SebastianBlue]

Well maybe, but you are enough to make anyone crazy :)

You are my missus and I claim my £1,000!

 

[invisibleandalone]

A (very) long piece in the Guardian on PL refereeing. It contains little new other than its interesting to hear their perspective. It deals with VAR but I felt it was a very insular view and even with the appointment of Webb there is no effort to learn from other sports to improve. Lots on football as a subjective sport so not every decision is black and white. Notwithstanding that its worth a read.

The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees

Players, pundits and fans complain bitterly that referees are getting worse each season – but is that fair?

www.theguardian.com

There's a sentence in this article that says "Most referees maintain a distance of about 15 metres", 15 metres from what? The play, the ball, the fowl ? That is bollocks and would love to know, how a ref knows, where a fowl is going to happen to maintain his 15 metre distance

 

[Stephen230]

There's a sentence in this article that says "Most referees maintain a distance of about 15 metres", 15 metres from what? The play, the ball, the fowl ? That is bollocks and would love to know, how a ref knows, where a fowl is going to happen to maintain his 15 metre distance

The article actually answers all of the questions you’ve asked and explains why 15 metres is considered to be roughly the optimum position for a referee to be away from the action.

 

[TinFoilHat]

What odds Tierney gets our game with the dips?

 

[Blue Mist]

I had many discussions with Alan Harper’s ‘Tash, if that’s who you mean.

I think you’re overestimating my commitment to do whatever it is that would achieve, if you think I’m going to be firing up two devices and chatting away to myself in a thread.

Phone and lap top, dead easy.
I'm also Mad Eyed Screamer, everyone else who was offered it refused as they coukdnt stand the Smiths.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

You are my missus and I claim my £1,000!

£1000???

It used to be a fiver.

Bloody inflation.

 

[richardtheref]

De Gea was in the video review area?

Itv showed a clip where you can see he is stood behind the ref watching

 

[richardtheref]

Just finished reading Clattenburgs book. Whilst most of it is a complete work of fiction in the final chapter he says VAR should be scaled back & refs have become over reliant on it. I agree with this.
However, he then says the new handball law helps defenders????? Not sure about that