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Well I for one am very excited to hear the thoughts of this game from a certain member…

Anyone watching the BT Sport commentary now, it’s hilarious. Steve McManaman is almost in tears about this ref at times. Can’t say I agree with all the refs calls but the commentary reaction to it is hilarious. This isn’t exclusive to City, Robbie Savage and co are the same when United are...

And a penalty has been awarded. It’s gonna get interesting now No doubts it’s a pen

Which part? Also we finally get a yellow. Lightning quick pulling out of the card by the referee there

As much as I’m cheering for Madrid tonight, what does Casemiro have to do to get booked. I can only guess he’s avoided yellow there for it being SPA, but it’s a shirt pull and a trip from behind, certainly can be classed as reckless. Also there was no advantage really, I think City would have...

Yeh it’s a clear foul on a player in the penalty area. I do need to check the IFAB law where it says that if the player gets a shot away there’s no foul because I didn’t see it last time I looked! If that happens anyway outside penalty area, e.g. a player gets clattered after taking a heavy...

Yeh a nice feisty start for the game. Will be an interesting one. City are time wasting very early on as well which will spike tensions. Can not believe Casemiro avoided a yellow tbh

This. I come from an area where, growing up, swearing was a normal part of vocab. In the schoolyard, kids are gonna be swearing all the time. We’re not there to be some moral protectors and go harsh because it’s children that are swearing. This is different. The player has very directly told...

Yeh after seeing the replay I was satisfied with it. A lot of shouts for Kavanagh to deal with but an impressive performance imo

I’ll wait until I see a replay (can’t make game today and my stream is heavily behind) but there’s been a lot of penalty shouts in this game. Think Kavanagh has been correct on all of them, Ronaldo and Elanga both go to ground relatively easily and he’s waved away most of the appeals. Brentford...

On a side note, this seems to happen fairly often. Other week I was watching my brothers U13 team play away and it was a feisty game. Someone on the opposition team lost it over a foul being given against him and began screaming at the ref. “Go **** yourself referee, that was never a ****ing...

This happened the other day in the Forest vs Swansea game. The Swansea player was shown a red, Graham Scott then talked to his officials and chose to rescind the red as the ball had gone over the line and showed a yellow. The Twitter exchange was fun, with Swansea fans believing he shouldn’t be...

“Foul and abusive” isn’t a yellow card. Technically it’s not a red card either, but “offensive, insulting or abusive language” is If you’re not showing him a straight red for the second offence, then yeh it’s probably a C2 for dissent, which obviously is a sin bin. What did you report the...

The questioning on if handballs gone the wrong way, debating whether or not it’s blatant when his arm is clearly in the air, that sort of reaction. Considering the amount of beneficial decisions City have had go their way this year, it’s even more mind blowing. To give Bloovee rare defence, on...

Alright fair enough. It was still the correct decision under the laws though I believe. Genuine question, if Madrid had done this handball, would you be showing the same reaction?

Oh I have no interest in mini soccer. . And the article mentions games featuring players 10 and under, which I’ve only done once. U6’s tournament, 4 years ago, my first gig reffing. Suffice to say that experience meant sticking to older age groups. Had far less trouble with U16s than I have...

I came up to Newcastle Uni in September, and kind of stopped refereeing. When I go back home, I’ll ref my brothers U13 team sometimes and I’ve done a few favours for other teams I used to ref whilst back home. But up here I’ve not done any reffing. I thought about contacting a local team but...

3 years ago. And if I rmemeber correctly, it was the right decision under the laws. Also it took a fair few angles to see so whether or not it hit his hand so that starts a debate wheyher it was C and O. Also 100% handball here.

It’s just a general phrase. Apologies if this was interpreted as me saying you should add 30 seconds for every goal scored. I can safely say I never have, in fact I can’t recall a proper big celebration in a junior game I’ve refereed (I’ve seen it before as a spectator)

Man United vs Southampton when it finished 9-0 has the same thing, very short injury time despite the high number of goals. I get why, the game was done, but why not play the full injury time, could’ve been a record breaking score line. Mind you, I had a junior game finish 16-6 once and I didn’t...