Referees’ Performances | 2024/2025

Not arguing that it was unusual, just that the stills being used are not reflective of why the man in the centre was unmarked.
I guess he saw it thrown to the wing on halfway and thought it was neutral - I don't know if he had to move the whistle to blow it, or if he had it ready.

The van Dijk/Gordon clash was bemusing. It looked absolutely deliberate.

Although it’s grainy when you zoom in, you can see he has the whistle in his mouth and is either blowing for full time or just about to. It’s well before the attack developed in to the Liverpool half.
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Although it’s grainy when you zoom in, you can see he has the whistle in his mouth and is either blowing for full time or just about to. It’s well before the attack developed in to the Liverpool half.
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Thanks - I think it's audible on the footage. I was just wondering if the move to blow had taken up half a second too.

It seems clear from that that he was doing the common thing of blowing when the ball is in the air in the middle of the pitch.
 
I have no act to drop. Regarding FSG I think that they are extremely shrewd and smart but I think that they don't have any sort of a "in" when it comes to controlling how the English football is corrupt. And by that I mean the VAR and the FA. I do however strongly believe that they have somehow penetrated UEFA things.

And when it comes to the English football corruption I think that there it is Man Utd interests that control the corruption. And those interests also do it in such a way so as to make it appear that it is Liverpool who is doing the corruption. That is what I think.

And here below is I think another example of how they do it. Those corrupt interests are currently under huge stress because many things about their workings are coming out. Including the things about that referee Coote who was caught on video using cocaine. So that now those corrupt interests are trying to hide behind blaming Liverpool for the corruption within the English football. They are trying to present Liverpool as having some sort of a glaring and obvious corruption control in English football. And they are doing it very blatantly because they are under huge stress because, as I've said, things are coming out about their workings and their operation. They are trying to hide behind blaming Liverpool.



ps I should say that I don't know how Liverpool owners have penetrated the UEFA side of things. With them I am actually not sure. Because they are so, so shrewd. They might also be always ensuring to do legal things without being anyhow caught. And they have indeed very recently entered the whole European side of things when it comes to sports ownership. So that they are anyhow newcomers to a completely different environment. It is not easy for them to penetrate into European football interests which are heavily country-by-country specific. Italian league is sure greatly corrupt but it is run by Italian corruptors. I just don't know which ones, and how. Is it Juve, Milan, Inter, etc? And the same is true in England and in Spain.
pps In American baseball, where they come from, Boston Red sox (who they own) have approached sports things scientifically. That's why they oriented themselves towards Moneyball. Moneball is not about saving money. It is about knowing about how to make the best use out of however much money one has. So it leads to shrewdness.
ppps All of the above is what I think.

You are not very good at this undercover lark, lol
 
Although it’s grainy when you zoom in, you can see he has the whistle in his mouth and is either blowing for full time or just about to. It’s well before the attack developed in to the Liverpool half.
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Refs usually wait until a keeper releases the ball and the ball is in the air due to it not being in either team’s possession.

For all the referee knew at the moment he blew the final whistle, even if he’d waited five more seconds, he might have thought Alexander-Arnold was going to get there and head it out for a throw-in anyway.

Nowt wrong with the way that game ended.
 
Although it’s grainy when you zoom in, you can see he has the whistle in his mouth and is either blowing for full time or just about to. It’s well before the attack developed in to the Liverpool half.
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Can the referee not blow for ending a half if the ball is dead? I always wondered why the referees wait until the ball is in play, it's just going to occasionally cause them problems that they don't need.
 
Can the referee not blow for ending a half if the ball is dead? I always wondered why the referees wait until the ball is in play, it's just going to occasionally cause them problems that they don't need.

I'm fairly certain that the laws don't preclude the final whistle being blown while the ball is dead.

In this case, he could just have blown once the keeper had the ball.

I can see a logic, given the non-specific method of adding on time, of playing a corner or an attacking free-kick.

I think the only other event that I can think of is a very late goal/sending off - restarting the game ends the window for VAR action, and shows that to anyone watching.
 

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