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Never a penalty, a baffling decision to be honest. I know Taylor is highly rated and well used by UEFA for European games but he does seem to have quite a few calls overturned via VAR intervention.

Red for me also.

Understand what you're saying. I don't think VAR helps the situation when the replays are massively slowed down. As we know, football is a game that is played at a fast pace, not a super slow one! So such replays perhaps have the effect of making incidents look a lot worse than they are. Got to...

The amount of times they mention the word "intent" when discussing possible yellow and red card challenges is embarrassing.

I guess the clear and obvious error point is a fair one but that threshold doesn't really seem to apply anymore. Plenty of highly interpretative and 50/50 calls have been overturned with the assistance of VAR in the past. As for this incident, I just thought with how high he was on the leg and...

Has anybody seen the Balbuena sending off? A lot of people are moaning about it but I thought the Ref had no choice once the VAR sent him to the screen. For me, it had to be a Red once the Ref had seen the replays.

Has to be a DFK and a Caution, surely? Imagine a player not getting booked for doing this, it would rightly cause an uproar. Throwing an item onto the FOP should always be considered at least reckless and if thrown with enough force, violent conduct. You can't justify the act as being...

Easier to blame the Ref than to reflect on their own shortcomings as a player. It's water off a duck's back for me a lot of the time but don't let them ever get abusive/personal with you, at that point use your cards and make sure you report anything post-game that meets this threshold. There's...

Very surprised to hear that a league doesn't mandate team sheets. I'm terms of the situation you describe, I'd have noted down the second name he gave and filled out a misconduct report on the WGS detailing that he tried to give me another name previously and explaining the circumstances around...

Tried again and it worked! Strange one really as it was allowing me to submit my cautions/reds, just not the misconduct part. All sorted now though.

Amazed that Taylor wasn't asked to go to the monitor and review it, clear penalty for me and arguably a yellow card too.

Has anybody tried to submit a misconduct report on the WGS recently? It keeps crashing when I attempt to submit it. Will have a go later but I'm just wondering if anybody else is having issues too?

1) No handball - arms are in an unnatural position but the ball doesn't actually strike them for me, hits just below. 2) Definite foul with a barge in the back like that.

It's farcical at this point, I have no idea how anybody can claim that was offside. The current system seems to be open to all sorts of human error considering the fact that the lines are manually drawn onto the players. Not to mention which frame is used as it doesn't seem accurate enough to...

Makes you sick watching it as a fan, it's killing the game to be honest.

I guess that's where VAR works well, in allowing the Ref to see an additional angle or two. Glad the right decision was reached anyway.

I'm just not sure how Walton, who is sitting in a studio and will have every angle available to him, could say it was a yellow when the replay showed that Cooper's challenge was literally knee-high

Does feel like that sometimes, doesn't it? Like it's a bit of an easy cop out as you know you can just go over to the screen and review it if need be.

Anybody watching? Cooper has just had a yellow card cancelled via VAR review and a red given instead. Was the correct decision for me as the challenge was very high and clearly endangered the safety of an opponent. One thing that continues to annoy me is that BT have Peter Walton on as their...

The "clear and obvious error" mantra was supposed to inform VAR decisions but the PGMOL have never abided by that, even though that's the basis it was sold to fans on when it was first adopted. People don't want to see toenail offsides and 50/50 decisions overturned, they want the howlers...