Recent content by redref2005

Ok that may be true but if a ball hits you from behind you normally find that the whole body will jerk forwards so I still think the VAR team guessed as they couldn't be sure. There is too much guessing in the game and perhaps we should be seeing less of it?

Seems a bit silly to be complaining about the position of the throw in when there seemed to be a big number of foul throws that occured by both sides? Also, the disallowed goal, how can the VAR be 100% sure that the elbow was hit? And if so - how much of it was hit? It looked like in most...

What about the pull on Salah when he was through on goal - this happened twice in the match and neither offence was deemed worthy of a penalty (in the first instance) or a red card (in the second). It seems to me that Salah for all his 100's of goals and previous ability to score worldies...

I'll hold back but to be honest I've not got it in for any referee, I just want to see fair refereeing and I don't think the PGMOL seem to have any accountability for the actions of the referee's who work under them. The system doesn't work currently as far as I can see it but I'm hopeful that...

Apologies James - I'll hold back from providing stats in future about any one team. If I provided all the stats for all teams does that make it fair though?

I know it was lucky of Wirtz to get a penalty the other day but the challenge on him on Saturday was surely worthy of a red card. This has already been discussed by Dale Johnson at the BBC. I appreciate it's difficult for ref's to analyse the game via VAR but I wonder if it's better to have...

I'm Welsh so I like red but anyway, it's not the situation here. I think defenders are getting away with it so many times as ref's aren't clamping down on this sort of behaviour. It's like when defenders also sheperd the ball out of play, half the time they are nowhere near the ball and can foul...

I guess we saw two different things. To me he is clearly held and as he is in a standing upright position he is unable to get any leverage away from the player pulling him back. It would a different situation if both players were running and the offending player pulled him as he would fall...

That's not fair though is it? Wirtz for all his dive afterwards was denied the chance to challenge for the bouncing ball as he was being pulled back by the defender. This in any ordinary situation is a foul and often a yellow card to the aggressor. Surely it shouldn't matter what the affected...

Yes but surely it's worse as he was standing in front of the keeper whereas Robertson was standing to the side and couldn't affect the flight of the ball?

VAR had trouble again in the game at Anfield yesterday. Firstly Forest's goal was allowed when they had a player standing offside infront of the keeper. And then they had a goal disallowed due to a phantom hand ball that no-one else could see. I know they have a tough job of it but it feels...

Good find. So, the defender kicks the bottom of the attacking player's foot. I'm still not sure how it's a foul?

I know the Liverpool penalty was disallowed by the VAR (after the referee reviewed it) but there seems little consistency with the rules or understanding of them. The same thing happened in a game between Liverpool and Brighton a couple of seasons ago and the penalty was given that time even...

I know Mason shouldn't have lost his head like this and should have been sent off but these two mistakes by the referee are pretty damning. It's a shame VAR isn't in the championship with these sort of decisions.

Blimey! How on earth has VAR not caught that and given a DOGSO? Wow - they are getting worse!