Ref Watch

Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
The Bottler needs to be renamed. He didn't bottle that pen he just decided no matter what he wasn't giving it. The ball's out of play so he could have a VAR check, go over to the monitor, but no, he ain't gonna give us the chance of another goal. From where he was he could not have seen any nick by the defender on the ball. Just wasn't giving it!

I'm just watching the Brentford v Norwich game and Pukki is in the goal area and gets taken out, only the goalie to beat, ref gives the pen but yellow cards the defender, six yards from the goal. Laporte was forty yards from the goal and gets a red. No one will convince me that the LotG are applied even-handedly, fairly and with unimpeachable impartiality. And the LotG will tell us that the pen awarded against the defending side is the 'red card'! What a fuckin' balls up!
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I would rename him "The Company man."

I use this term as I recall a throwaway comment made by Martin Tyler before a match he was officiating against us a few years ago (might have been spurs at home?) where Tyler said he spoke to OliVAR about the LoTG and Oliver mentioned there has to be a balance of using them and "protecting the product."
 
hertsblue said:
Yep
And the handball v Spurs
And the non penalty early on at Anfield
And the non penalties in the final v Dippers
etc etc etc

Enough evidence for a new dossier eh City, get him off our games
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Well remembered.
Are you Leslie Welch from another life?
 
mat said:
I would rename him "The Company man."

I use this term as I recall a throwaway comment made by Martin Tyler before a match he was officiating against us a few years ago (might have been spurs at home?) where Tyler said he spoke to OliVAR about the LoTG and Oliver mentioned there has to be a balance of using them and "protecting the product."
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Be careful not to use the LOTG if your pay masters don’t want the outcome of using the LOTG.
 
mat said:
I would rename him "The Company man."

I use this term as I recall a throwaway comment made by Martin Tyler before a match he was officiating against us a few years ago (might have been spurs at home?) where Tyler said he spoke to OliVAR about the LoTG and Oliver mentioned there has to be a balance of using them and "protecting the product."
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A balance of using them?

A player is either one side of the law or the other. That is the only balance that should matter, but we all know this is not the case.

And as for 'protecting the product'; that tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about the PiGMOL and the Premier League.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
I think the Telles one is where the biggest debate lies.

More and more, we’re seeing fouls given when the ball has been won.

Granted, it doesn’t strictly matter, but how is a defender supposed to slide/stretch out a leg to poke the ball away without making contact with the attacker?

If Telles had got a full foot to the ball and smashed it behind for a corner and then tackled Jesus in the follow through, should that be a penalty?
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It all depends if the referee considered the challenge to be careless, reckless or dangerous. In my view the challenge on Jesus was careless - he got the slightest of touches on the ball but clearly took out the player. If it had been the other way round - clearly got the ball and a slight touch on Jesus that would be fine.

In the example you give if he a got a full foot to the ball and the follow through wasn't careless, reckless or dangerous that would be fine too.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
A balance of using them?

A player is either one side of the law or the other. That is the only balance that should matter, but we all know this is not the case.
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And as for 'protecting the product'; that tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about the PiGMOL and the Premier League.
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It's use will slowly spread to journos and managers when it suits and become legit.
 
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