Referees’ Performances | 2024/2025

Quite right. And, if you still want the referee to control it, he can tell the time keeper when to stop the clock, same as the egg chasers have managed for years….
Sorry pal I meant they should electronically connect his watch to the scoreboard so when he stops and starts it we can all see it
 
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Quite right. And, if you still want the referee to control it, he can tell the time keeper when to stop the clock, same as the egg chasers have managed for years….
They don't seem to be terribly desperate to close down those avenues where officials may be able to 'manipulate' outcomes. Still waiting for them to introduce semi-automated offside, but they just keep coming up with excuses.
 
They don't seem to be terribly desperate to close down those avenues where officials may be able to 'manipulate' outcomes. Still waiting for them to introduce semi-automated offside, but they just keep coming up with excuses.

SAOT was in use at yesterday’s game.
 
Did no know that; about time.

I just wonder if there will be selective serviceability like happened at Klanfield where the VAR camera was 'obscured' at a vital moment?

They were all set for introducing it in the Premier League after this last international break. And then in one of the FA Cup 5th round games they were trialling it in, they had the longest ever time for a VAR off side decision in England. Over eight minutes.

So they’ve put it back for further testing. Almost certainly going to be the start of next season now for the Premier League.
 
I bet they are not trialling SAOT at Saints, Leicester or Ipswich. Probably why they are waiting to introduce it at the start of a new season.
 
I bet they are not trialling SAOT at Saints, Leicester or Ipswich. Probably why they are waiting to introduce it at the start of a new season.

Why do you say that?

If Ipswich had beaten Forest and got a home tie in the QF, they would have anyway.
 
Why do you say that?

If Ipswich had beaten Forest and got a home tie in the QF, they would have anyway.
Just that there's no point installing the cameras in grounds that aren't gonna be hosting Premier League matches next season.
 
Just that there's no point installing the cameras in grounds that aren't gonna be hosting Premier League matches next season.

Right I’m with you. I’ve no idea how much effort it takes. But they did announce well in advance that all FA Cup games on Premier League grounds from the 5th round onwards, would be using it. So it would have been possible.
 
Plenty of peculiar decisions from Attwell today, but the decision not to book Semenyo was the cherry on the cake. Arguably the worst challenge in a game of seven yellow cards.
It was the worse tackle in the game, a knee-high hack with the ball nowhere near. It was ‘over the top’ on standing leg so could have been a red (if one of ours had done it) but not even a booking.

As you say, compared to what we got booked for it was unbelievable that there was no card
 

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