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Brief round up - ok not so brief!

Ferencváros 5-0 Paks - Andó-Szabó Sándor. Yellow shirt

He wore yellow there is no further comment necessary... Ok I will mention the correct YYR!

Only 1 team on the pitch, Tokmac with a hattrick for Fradi & Boli with a brace. Paks didn't turn up & Mr yellow shirt wearer was not really needed other than to keep goal tally! Paks had requested the game be postponed as they were missing several players due to positive covid 19 tests. Fradi refused and therefore the Federation as per their own rules had to let it go ahead. It was men v a few boys & Fradi should hang their heads in shame.  They're always quick to ask for postponements for Euro games prep and get them, yet an opposition team needing one for medical reasons & they refused. Hope the federation refuse to postpone anymore Fradi games for any reason. They won't though, it's Fradi & they can do what they like. Wonder how much their aryan green flag waving supporters enjoyed those 5 goals? Perhaps the players reward was no monkey chants from that lot... 

Mezőkövesd Zsóry 1-0 Budafoki MTE - Farkas Ádám - black shirt

Easy game for Mr Farkas. It was meh! Both teams cancelling each other out. 6 bookings all correct. I have found the cure for insomnia!

DVTK 2-4 Budapest Honvéd - Bognár Tamás - black shirt

A fair few controversies in this one.  A couple of very special goals for Gazdag for Kispest and Molnar for DVTK.

The controversies - Red card for Kristóf of DVTK. I would say it was soft but it was not wrong. Last man, fell under DOGSO & under that aspect had to go. Had it been a foot further ahead, ie inside the box not outside, it wouldn't have been red & had it not been DOGSO it would not have been red. Correct call for me within the LOTG.

Kispests 3rd goal was offside. My initial reaction it was onside, and that was obviously the opinion of Kóbor Péter, Gazdag hesitated, saw the flag didn't go up and ran on & scored a lovely goal. Replays show it was offside. Now depending which of the 2 cameras you look at - it was either a good 2 feet offside or just mm! Our TV company are nowhere near ready for VAR, replay footage is shocking! Camera 1 is about inline with the kicker & Gazdag looks well offside, Camera 2 is further upfield & Gazdag looks level/onside. My gut feeling is that it was offside by probably only cm. Kóbor Péter is an excellent AR, with a very high accuracy level, I cannot see him missing a player a couple of feet offside, his position was good and it was his side of the pitch - he does not call those wrong. One that needed VAR and better camera views to really decide I think.

Penalty to DVTK looked very soft. Again not wrong, within the LOTG. I'm too old for it to be a penalty! Meh! Tujvel saved it anyway. Correct call though.

Red card for Grozav of DVTK. Several complaints about this on twitter because he didn't connect. Both feet off the ground, studs up - doesn't need to make contact, that's why the LOTG say makes or attempts to make. Potential leg breaker if he made contact. Correct in the LOTG for me.

Mol Fehérvár 3-1 Puskás Akadémia - Iványi Zoltán - black shirt

Nice to see Mr Iványi back. His face looked very gaunt though so I wondered if he had been ill.  Typical Mr Iványi performance. Some nice advantages & a lot of smiley ace man management.

Újpest 2-4 Kisvárda Master Good - Referee: Solymosi Péter - black shirt

Oh dear, where do I start? A team void of any tactics and a formation even the experts were not able to fathom. To all the ultras who drove my Mr beautiful out of the club - FU! Hope you're happy with that shower of

Thank the lord of football (and Mr Puhl) for #SolymosiWatch, it was the only enjoyable part of the game!

Only 1 decision I disagreed with. Csongvai yellow. Sassa is an utter disgrace, went down like a sniper had hit him, for about the 30th time in the game & he gave a free kick & booked Csongvai. I think he was conned by play acting & replays seem to suggest the same although again the angle was not great and it was quite zoomed out. He'd have been looking from behind and Csongvai would have been partially obscuring his view.

He gave Bumba a yellow for deciding to leave the pitch collect a water bottle and then stand on the pitch drinking water. The players reaction was infuriating he just stood there smirking and carried on drinking - I said to Tünde at the time I wanted to slap the smirk off of his face. Cocky, arrogant, disrespectful little ...

I will also note, as I made such a big fuss over it before, he definitely had water in the 2nd half drinks break. Not sure about the 1st half but 2nd half he went to the 4O who handed him a bottle of water & he was seen clearly on camera drinking from it.

MTK Budapest 0-3 ZTE - Karakó Ferenc - Red shirt

I wasn't really watching this one. I was watching the Loki v Ajka game in the NB2 - an 8 goal absolute thriller it has to be said. I did have this on and glanced at it a few times. Didn't see anything to complain about. Saw 2 of the yellows & felt they were spot on. There was one noticeable moment where he cut a very lonely figure as he tried to speak to players, they just walked off & ignored him. I don't like that level of disrespect but he doesn't command the authority needed. In terms of decision making so far this season, I have watched 2 games of his & he did really well in both of them, maybe this season he will finally show what he is clearly capable of. Despite not liking him I do hope so, I don't like to see any referee having poor game upon poor game, it's not good to watch & is soul destroying for them.

Mr Puhl - my team, well both my teams actually are dreadful this season - Kispest 2nd from bottom, Lilák 4th from bottom - it's going to be a long season & we both know it's going to be Mr Solymosi's last one (hopefully May not December for retirement though...) so please next round may I have a red shirted Mr Solymosi and a return to the middle for Mr Erdős, thank you! Oh and save me some pálinka, I am going to need it for my sanity!