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Not sure how Caicedo has ended the half not in the book. Nasty foul that resulted in a Liverpool player going off injured, was either missed or advantage was played and the card not given. Could easily have ended up getting one for PI for a minor foul immediately after too, but that was missed...

Looking forward to finding out what a yellow card looks like in this game. Jorginho cynically pulls back an attacker, throws his arm to dissent the decision and screams "**** off" directly at the ref from 10 yards away = talking to. White is beaten on the byline and throws Jones to the floor...

Go on then, I'll throw this one in for discussion as well. Late scramble for an equalising goal, goal is scored, eventually called back by VAR for a handball in the build-up, about 8 passes and a block/interception earlier. There are 3 questions for me: 1. Is it actually handball? 2. Is it...

Has the VAR protocol changed? We saw a camera angle from behind the referee and at no point was he shown the Jones challenge at full speed?

England given a penalty, looked a pretty clear push albeit definitely milked a bit. VAR calls referee over to the monitor and seems to be showing the preceding contact that ended outside the PA as a reason not to give the PK. But then referee corrects the VAR on why she gave the penalty, is...

Really interesting penalty shout 15 minutes in - England player is fouled as the ball goes out of play (and needs a caution for that foul), but referee at the screen decides another England players has fouled a defender in the build-up. Attempt to explain it is unclear of course, but I think in...

After my match last night where I was acting as Junior AR, we were discussing a few of the key incidents. And when explaining one of his decisions the ref said something along the lines of "well I did that because if I had done X instead, then I would have had to do Y as a result" (being...

I've just been reminded of the VAR penalty decision in this game and thought it was interesting enough to warrant discussion. Starts at 35s in the following video if you're in the UK For anyone who can't see that, the WHU attacker is attacking the box, pokes the ball to a teammate and is then...

Think Pawson's forgotten his cards, both LB's lucky not to be in the book within 25 minutes. Good alertness to flag off a Liverpool goal for a weird offside coming from a blocked clearance, could easily have caught the AR napping.

I've started getting a large advert that expands the header bar: Because this expands the header, it means that even if I scroll up down, it's still taking up roughly half of the screen. Only seems to happen on the front page, haven't noticed it in the individual forums, but it's new to the...

Lahuz is just an odd one isn't he? I don't mind it really and think the decisions have generally been right, but watching his game is such a contrast to the calm MO style!

Haven't given a foul throw in ages, gave 3 in one match yesterday - one for a late/in front of face release, one for lifting the back foot and the third for a player starting in the right place then jogging 20m down the line with the ball above his head before throwing. The last one particularly...

Have just been sent my first observation report for 5-4 this season. Overall score 72.4 on a very very quiet zero caution one-sided game, which I think is OK? In terms of individual sections, he's marked me 6.5 in 2 areas, which I have no problem with, think the comments are fair and will take...

One of the teams from my Saturday game have kindly sent me a link of the match video recorded on one of those ball-tracking Vimeo cameras. I've not really had this before, so I'm not totally sure how to approach going through the footage, has anyone got any tips for what's best to do with this...

Interesting article here summarising how VAR has gone so far, lots to discuss of course! https://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-premier-league/story/4675887/how-var-has-changed-the-premier-leaguefrom-penalties-to-offside-and-handball

In an otherwise incredibly dull game on the line yesterday, I had one slightly awkward moment with an offside call in the second half. Ball is pumped forward from the blue defence with the offside line just in the reds own half - blue attacker is marginally offside, but it's clear the ball is...

I had a game last night with NAR's, only my second of the season, observed of course! And I'm finding that I really struggle with the switch and ceding some of the responsibility that you normally have to carry with CAR's. For example, specifically from last night. * Twice I instructed play to...

Big fight kicks off post-match, the main aspect of which seems to be Ghana 25 throwing a punch and then immediately running off down the tunnel. Referee spends a few minutes trying to insist he come out to be shown red, before eventually just showing it to the tunnel. Happy with this approach...

A few incidents in last night's match have sparked some discussion on twitter, but I think I'm with the officials on all of them. 1st ATM goal - 2:41 - Long VAR delay around this, I presume asking the question if #11 interfered with the defender on the line from an offside position. Again I...

Not sure there's much refereeing feedback in this, but wow...