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My point is that the game has no VAR and we were scrutinising a tight offside call. With VAR we ‘hate the millimetre decisions’ and it’s ‘ruining football.’ Either the VAR draws them and it’s wrong or the BBC do and we’re on board with it?

It took less than thirteen minutes for Match of the Day live to get their lines out to test Sian Massey-Ellis' offside decision. Anyone still want to pretend that people would 'accept' the errors if we got rid of VAR?

Can I just say two things about the OP. Number one - I'm happy not to have had to referee that one. And number two: of those protesting, 2 (the fouler!) isn't one of them.

I'd rather be patronising than punched if the striker scores from the KO.

Nope. You can have whatever opinion you want on VAR/MD etc - you cannot put death threats down to VAR.

I'd not weep if Mason announced his retirement ;)

Given half of the group think its a foul and half don't I'm not sure its easy.

What was the defender's goal when he did that? To get Salah booked by you?

But the referee wouldn't be complicit if he let players pull strikers down in the box? Do you genuinely not believe that's a foul?

That doesn’t mean that it’s not a penalty, though? Are you saying a player has to be absolutely clattered so they can’t move in order for you to give a foul?

We can all say PL refereeing is getting worse and so on and we can look at various incidents over the last few weeks as a sign of that but the Werner and Salah penalties are nailed on. The only queries around them is the sanction.

I really don’t understand this. It’s an unnecessary reaction from Sarah but it’s an absolute nailed on penalty.

You can't just make stuff up to 'prove' your point. Rightly or wrongly Oliver, Taylor and Kavanagh are very highly though of by UEFA - CK was one of the selected non-Elite group referees to attend the UEFA Winter Seminar - so it seems likely that at least one of them will be at the Euros. Given...

From memory, the contact Hendrick makes is with his legs rather than his foot (happy to be corrected) and that’s very rarely going to be SFP.

Full disclosure, I’m a Newcastle fan: 1. that’s DOGSO. 2. The Hendrick yellow is a textbook yellow.

Surely intent is 100% relevant for violent conduct?

How many decisions are discussed on this forum as being definitely right or wrong? We are yet to reach a consensus on the Martial penalty three days on - thanks for the patronising comment though!

FIFA didn't 'step in.' FIFA took over worldwide VAR management from IFAB as was planned from day 1. I can think of very few situations in the PL where the answer is 'yes' or 'no' in such a cut and dry way.

No, I wouldn’t. Because my AR would have no credibility from that distance - someone with a TV operator would?

Out of interest, how close should the player be? Can you give me an exact measurement? I’m sorry but if players don’t want to be penalised for fouling opponents they shouldn’t do it. The only reason I’d be considering the distance from the ball is if I can play an advantage (unlikely here!)