Whitey Grandad

To make myself clear, I was referring to the inaction of the referee as disgraceful. The player is just a twat.

Yes it is. These players are role models for the youngsters and they set a bad example to them. Trying to referee on a Sunday morning is bad enough as it is. It's bad enou h with all the swearing that they see on TV anyway. "Well Wayne Rooney does it" Kicking the ball away to delay the restart of the game is a booking. No argument.

The lack of action by the referee was disgraceful.

It was just before the final whistle but that's no excuse. That was disgraceful.

We get those days too but normally the goals go in against us. :0

That strike took a small deflection off a defender which was enough to make it hit the bar.

I think you mean 'of those who might have previously died with Covid'. Or at least I hope you do Our local comprehensive school has just over a thousand students. With two tests a week that means about two false positives a week yet people talk as if there were actual cases at the school.

‘Unsporting behaviour’. Indirect free kick and a yellow card.:)

Defenders will take hold of an opponent’s shirt so that they can detect which way he’s moving whilst they are watching a cross coming in. It’s all a question of degree. Players will jostle and nudge each other all the time in an effort to disrupt the other’s balance and timing but barge them off their feet and it’s likely to be a foul. That said, Bednarek took it a bit too far yesterday and could have been punished for it. We have not been shown all the other instances of shirt holding that went on in that game but there will have been many. Moss had already ‘overruled’ Marriner for the first penalty and we don’t know what conversations took place at half time between the five officials. It’s perfectly possible that Moss drew Marriner’s attention to the shirt pull but that Marriner had taken into account other actions by Woods during that move. Marriner’s no fool.

That and all the flinging themselves to the ground screaming in agony.

It takes a few years for a manager to get the players he wants playing the way that he wants. How many of those from his first games are still with us? With players’ contracts lasting up to five years it takes quite a while to clear them out.

The pundits never stopped mentioning it but if they’re going to be balanced they ought to show all the other 23 incidents of shirt pulling inside the box. Holding a shirt of itself is not an offence but it’s a question of how much the player is restricted in his movement.

To be fair no players on either side complained about that incident either and the real referee was happy with it.Before it was introduced we were told that VAR would not re-referee the game.

It is a general principle that you don’t play football with your hands. A hand off may be legal in rugby and American Football but not in the Beautiful Game.

They’ve known about the vaccine for nearly a year. Shouldn’t they have sorted out their position on vaccine passports by now?

No. If they leave the penalty decision to the onfield ref then they have to show everything.

2-0 is a dangerous score

It’s not for VAR to decide that. If they show the final contact they should also show the build up.

Not quite over then.

Not exactly true otherwise it would have hit him.

It’s only a foul in VAR. Pieters has thrown himself across the legs of KWP. It was a tangle. You get them all the time.

KWP was shoved out of the way. Stronger with his arm, do you mean? Pieters got his cross in and turned into KWP. So Stonewall that the real referee didn’t give it. Try watching in real time, not slow motion.

Because Pieters fell into KWP. The only reason there was any contact was because he was stretching to make the cross and went into KWP. Just as much a foul the other way. VAR has made football a joke.

It’s just as well then that the game is not being played tomorrow.

Isn’t that a cemetery? Aren’t they usually full of dead people?