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i was making a point about people not knowing the law and it being an issue with how others regard the decisions we make because of the term "handball", for instance if you watch champions league football and the referee calls a handball for anything above the elbow, pundits will say it was...

i believe if we as referees are expected to punish from shoulder down to finger tips then the name of the law needs to be changed from "handball". For people that don't understand the LOTG as we do, it seem's unjust for us to punish when it hits above the elbow, i'm always getting shouts about...

Snap 😂, that's the incident I was referring to

I think UEFA have set the standard for that when Ronaldo was sent off for pulling an opponents hair, not sure if the FA have the same opinion of that though 🤔

I do believe we have some smaller referees in scotland, for example Willie Collum, Nick Walsh and Andrew Dallas to name a few :)

Hence why i said above that cautioning the player isn't what i'd do, i was just pointing out the behaviour of the keeper and asking opinions on said behaviour, i didn't make myself clear enough

Madden did show great management in this situation, i did notice that the keeper did as you said above,look for confrontation and claim violence against him (Halliday being the accused) the referee acknowledged the incident and proceeded to tell Halliday to just move away

i'm not saying i would necessarily caution the player, i'm just pointing to his behaviour being unsporting in nature and wondering if anyone else has a different opinion, apologies for not making that clear

That's a fair point, though i'd argue he's spent 10 seconds rolling about and as soon as the referee has intervened he's became the hard man that tries to square up to everyone, i understand the logic of not giving the caution but i believe it could fall into unsporting behaviour :) I do agree...

What are your opinions of the actions from the keeper after the challenge?, in my opinion he is trying to deceive the referee with the holding the face and rolling around. feigning injury comes to mind. and i am not saying this is less than a red card offence from arfield

yes agreed, made amendments :)

SFA advise that if your comfortable getting involved with a situation then your allowed to do so, however if it becomes more than 2-3 players then you are advised to remove yourself to be in the best possible position to see further offences.

I agree, i always warn managers i will be using the numbers provided on the team lines to identify players. some times players aren't overly keen on providing names anyway.

This decision was a great one, Bobby Madden is one of the better scottish officials

i'd be inclined to agree if some of those red cards weren't so questionable

i think Rangers players are fed up being easy targets, it seem's to be that if they are gonna get red cards either way, then they may as well earn them lol

Apparently the ex referee on BT disagrees and believes this was worthy of only a yellow card

Correct it's only racist when those said black people choose it's racist, for example when someone white says it, if it's good enough to be racist when an opposition player says it then it's racist when they say it. And if that means the match is abandoned then who's to blame?, the referee for...

if another player who was white said that we would be expected to send him off, if they don't want sent off don't use racial slurs on the field of play

If you went to work tomorrow and had a joke with your boss and just so happened to use the term "mong" as a joke because he said something silly, if he fired you would you use context as an excuse because it was a joke?, Would you expect him/her to overlook such an insulting word because it was...