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There’s absolutely no basis in law for a caution and a penalty.

I don't agree. Confrontational means to disagree aggressively. Martinelli was neither disagreeing, nor behaving aggressively. I genuinely don't think he commits a sending off offence. 99.99% of physical contact with a match official hearings will relate to actual confrontational actions / abuse.

Because it was an unsporting and unnecessary action.

But the push by Martinelli was not confrontational...

Also depends how big your pool is. Normally I think you'd need to be looking at top 5 tbh.

Comparing this incident in any way, shape or form to the Mitrovic incident is just utterly ludicrous. They’re not even remotely similar.

It's happened to me twice this season on step 3/4 games with my AR going to the wrong place. On one occasion an AR went to the away team's ground rather than the home teams ground. On the other occasion my AR went to a similarly named town approximately 45 mins away from the one we were meant to...

Can’t help but feel some people are over thinking this. A player hitting the ball against the bar, then it accidentally rebounding off of him would not be immediately from the initial kick, it’s gonna be at least a few seconds and obviously it has hit the cross bar in the mean time.

A reckless shirt pull? 😆

My thoughts regarding jewellery is that something like a whoop band can be covered and not dangerous, but something like an apple watch or garmin would still be potentially dangerous. I don't think piercings have any way or being covered and still not being dangerous. I stand to be shot down by...

I said the same, if you look at the front of the kits, side by side, you’d say no major issue, but the backs are the main problem

30 middles on my MOAS (sorry @JamesL) Then I’d hazard a guess around 8 lines, a few 4th officials and maybe 1 or 2 non moas appointments

Yeah I picked up the issue pretty quickly, it’s a bizarre signal. Back on to the first yellow card on the Ugarte/Giminez debate, I agree with @one entirely. I actually don’t think the foul is a nailed on yellow at all, and I agree on a second watch that I do think the card is genuinely for...

You’re obviously entitled to your opinion, so I don’t mean to be dismissive, but I don’t think the ball is relevant here, it’s a terrible challenge for me. And I like to think that’s from an unbiased perception, albeit obviously I am an England fan.

Having seen the first caution back I can actually see a world where it was issued for dissent (and Christ knows what the other player felt he had to moan about) but the whole thing about the 2nd one being rescinded is utterly bizarre

It’s giving level 4 referee who has f*cked up and is trying to pull the wool over the observers eyes vibes.

Are you serious? Have you seen it back? Are we both talking about the challenge on Foden? It’s a red card on any day, in any league, every single day of the week

Imagine being that referee. Would you confidently abandon the game in the knowledge there's also a flip side where it could be career over if it's deemed you did the wrong thing?

I tend to show both sides of my card ;)

I think you either set out a protocol that play strecthes back to either the last restart or the point where the team gained possession, or you say what has been said and the term 'attacking phase of play' - emphasis being on attacking. Clearly Sa having the ball in his hands, releasing it to a...