The referee thread: discuss referees and their decisions

Japan v. Italy in the confed cup: 2 penalties given, 2 completely wrong calls.

Still, at least one for each. Shocking stuff from the ref.
 
One more bit of evidence for my belief in a 'real-time' system for football:

The difference between longest and shortest match in the prem this year (ball in play) was 26 minutes. 26 minutes!!!
 
The case here was that the player, Hunt, said it wasn't a penalty to the goal line ref. The problem with going back on decisions is those cases where the ball isn't hoofed off but falls to another attacking player in a good position. If the ref first blows, then regret and change his mind that chance is gone, stolen away literally... is that fair?
 
I'm not talking about the fine but more about the psychological disciplinary decision.
It can evolve and include game bans or a red card for future games; that could schock at first but it would be beneficial for everybody.

The thing is, how can we say if someone is diving or not, sometimes there are some small contacts that even cameras can't get ...
 
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Anasie10 said:
I'm not talking about the fine but more about the psychological disciplinary decision.
It can evolve and include game bans or a red card for future games; that could schock at first but it would be beneficial for everybody.

The thing is, how can we say if someone is diving or not, sometimes there are some small contacts that even cameras can't get ...
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It's not that difficult really as football is a contact sport, you simply have to decide whether the minimal contact would be enough to cause an athlete in peak condition to jump in the air in agony.
 
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Another fine example how biased English referees are: Nacer Chadli a yellow card for the hand-to-ear gesture and Gerrard of course not.
 
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Another fine example how biased English referees are: Nacer Chadli a yellow card for the hand-to-ear gesture and Gerrard of course not.
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I don't think it had anything to do with biasedness. The referee for the North London Derby (Michael Oliver) just completely lost control of the match yesterday.
 
@IanWright0 on Nolan’s disallowed goal: “It’s a ridiculous ruling - the whole body has to be offside, not your head."

Good to know the pundits are educating the English masses.

Can someone who is not biased like me explain why there's 'controversy' over the WHU disallowed goal? It was correctly ruled out for offside. Replays have confirmed this. Yet it is a topic on talk shows and in the papers. Anyone?

Is United really hated so much that it's now newsworthy if a correct decision is made that helps them?
 
whole body has to be offside? I thought that if any part of your body with which you are allowed to play ball is in offside you are offside.
 
Tbh most offside goals that close are given , count your blessing.
On the NLD the ref gave out too many yellows . You couldn't fart and escape one. The ref was out of depth and this was the most settle derbies I've ever seen... Just niggling fouls and celebrating in front of the crowd was just an example how off the mark he was. We missed Clattenburg I mean Theo.
 
A player is offside if any part of the player's body, except the arms, is closer to the goal line compared to the last defender. Not your all body, any part will do, like the feet or the head (bar the arms).
 
Yea it was the correct decision based on the rules.

Personally I think the rule should change so that the goal would have stood so long as Nolan didn't head it in. Would probably complicate things however and lead to linesmen getting confused.

Bebo's right in saying Utd were fortunate in the sense that it's not rare at all that similar goals are given
 
Of course that was off-side.
But to conclude that Wright's tweet has anything to do with hatred against United is a couple of bridges too far.

He simply doesn't know the rules.
 
Atkinson was a disaster in Chelsea - Arsenal.

Cahill = straight red
Koscielny = straight red
Chambers = two yellows
Wellbeck = straight red

Missed a penalty for Arsenal in the second half.

That is a whole lot in a single match.
 
Agree on most, except this:

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... Missed a penalty for Arsenal in the second half...
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Fàbregas was protracting himself, there's was no possibility of him avoiding putting his hands away.

You also missed Flamini's yellow after that elbow on Costa.

Overall it was terrible refereeing indeed, but thankfully had no impact on the course of the game.
 
Unless your hand is infront of your face or body when the ball hits your arm (and therefore would have hit your face or body) I don't think 'protection' can be used to say no pen.

His hands were out above his head.

The biggest mistake with the most impact on the game was the Cahill red card. Such is the nature of cause and effect the first terrible decision on important matters (like a red card or penalty) is always the most impactful as all following bad calls would not have occurred as a result of the correct decision being made. Chelsea might still have won but the other incidents are rendered irrelevant.
 
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Unless your hand is infront of your face or body when the ball hits your arm (and therefore would have hit your face or body) I don't think 'protection' can be used to say no pen...
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But, but... HE DID. His hands were on his face, the ball touched his forehands.
 
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