Talking Points

[Supersub6]

Let’s face it. 6 yellows and a red. If that was Burnley we would have been crucified by Sky Sports and Klopp.

Ronaldo should also have received a red for his childish behaviour after he had fouled his opponent. He then kicked the ball with force when it was lodged in the stomach of his opponent. In today's game, that is not only reckless but also endangering the safety of an opponent and constituted Violent Conduct. He knew exactly what he was doing and had the boot been on the other foot with Ashley Barnes or some other player from a lesser club doing that to Ronaldo ---we would never have heard the end of it!

[wanderlust]

The thing that I disliked most was Pogba laughing as he walked off after nailing Keita. Showed zero concern for the player whose career he threatened. Asshole.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Ronaldo should also have received a red for his childish behaviour after he had fouled his opponent. He then kicked the ball with force when it was lodged in the stomach of his opponent. In today's game, that is not only reckless but also endangering the safety of an opponent and constituted Violent Conduct. He knew exactly what he was doing and had the boot been on the other foot with Ashley Barnes or some other player from a lesser club doing that to Ronaldo ---we would never have heard the end of it!

Anthony Taylor is one totally clueless and spineless referee. Red card, early bath and off you pop. How on earth VAR did not intervene is beyond me.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

So much for Beckham's moral crusade and his support for taking the knee...

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/foot...?ocid=msedgntp

Like we have just witnessed at NUFC, grandstanding morality and rank hypocrisy walk hand in hand.

It's the lucre that counts...

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[sinkov]

Anthony Taylor is one totally clueless and spineless referee. Red card, early bath and off you pop. How on earth VAR did not intervene is beyond me.

He even had to be told to go and look at the Pogba challenge on the box, he must not have deemed what he saw with his own eyes dangerous or reckless, in which case you have to wonder why he's ever let near a referee's whistle. His liner must have had a good view as well, before bottling the red and showing Pogba the yellow card, could he not have gone over and discussed it with his liner. This is fairly standard practice down at Clitheroe's level, why did he not do that ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

He even had to be told to go and look at the Pogba challenge on the box, he must not have deemed what he saw with his own eyes dangerous or reckless, in which case you have to wonder why he's ever let near a referee's whistle. His liner must have had a good view as well, before bottling the red and showing Pogba the yellow card, could he not have gone over and discussed it with his liner. This is fairly standard practice down at Clitheroe's level, why did he not do that ?

He's a lily livered excuse of a referee that's why sinkov. Whenever I watched Burnley live in the recent past playing in the EPL and he was the referee, you just think, "here we go again" and that should be impossible to consider at this level.

The recent Spain v Italy game was ruined by his ridiculously errant officiating.

[Supersub6]

He even had to be told to go and look at the Pogba challenge on the box, he must not have deemed what he saw with his own eyes dangerous or reckless, in which case you have to wonder why he's ever let near a referee's whistle. His liner must have had a good view as well, before bottling the red and showing Pogba the yellow card, could he not have gone over and discussed it with his liner. This is fairly standard practice down at Clitheroe's level, why did he not do that ?

Simple answer ------VAR the scourge of modern elite football! It has stopped officials from doing the job and they are relying on technology. It is what the establishment and the media want but it does nothing for the game.

[sinkov]

Simple answer ------VAR the scourge of modern elite football! It has stopped officials from doing the job and they are relying on technology. It is what the establishment and the media want but it does nothing for the game.

That's what I thought might be the answer Sub, you have two officials in close proximity to an incident, but they don't work together because there's someone with a camera 200 miles away. Pathetic.

[Supersub6]

That's what I thought might be the answer Sub, you have two officials in close proximity to an incident, but they don't work together because there's someone with a camera 200 miles away. Pathetic.

Totally agree, sinkov, and my stand on this has never changed since it was first introduced.
The referee's decision was always final, however, in the elite footballing world this is no longer the case, however, it is still all down to opinions. We used to have 3 officials who were fine at looking after a game, in spite of what fans etc. thought.
We now have 6 officials doing the same job, aided and abetted by numerous cameras and all it does is cause more confusion and is not helped by players falling over for absolutely nothing!

The other factor in all this is the fact that many fans watching at whatever level, including the local park games on Sundays, are screaming foul for every bit of contact and then abusing the official for not giving things. This weekend, in the north east, there were several matches postponed because there are no referees. This is because a lot of dedicated people have just packed it in because of the terrible abuse and threats of violence from players, managers and spectators

[sinkov]

There was one at Clitheroe a couple of weeks ago Sub, one of our lads went in a bit high, caught one of theirs and the ball went out for a throw in, the ref was unsighted and didn't even give a free-kick, but the liner had seen it clearly, he flagged the ref over, they had a chat, the ref gave the free-kick, got a yellow card out, and as our lad was already on a yellow, off he went. There were no complaints from anyone, that's the way it should work and everyone accepted it. 90% of the time VAR causes more problems than it solves.