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Manchester United v Everton - Darren England
« on: Fri 06 Jan 2023 20:52 »
A lively live FA Cup tie, free flowing, end to end, and so far, excellently refereed by Darren England.

He has a quiet authority, does the job efficiently and competently.

Two incidents from the first half demonstrate those qualities. A little bit of handbags between Rashford and Godfrey, nothing in it really. England got straight in to the situation, calmed it down and had a firm word with both players which further took the heat out of the situation.

Then the Man Utd pantomime villain, Fernandez, committed a nasty foul where he raked his foot down the back of the Everton player’s ankle. The usual look of innocence and the usual protestations, but Darren England was on the spot and rightly cautioned him.

So far so good from the referee, I can see why he is highly rated by the powers that be.
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Re: Manchester United v Everton - Darren England
« Reply #1 on: Fri 06 Jan 2023 20:58 »
Quote from: UmpireIan49 on Fri 06 Jan 2023 20:52
A lively live FA Cup tie, free flowing, end to end, and so far, excellently refereed by Darren England.

He has a quiet authority, does the job efficiently and competently.

Two incidents from the first half demonstrate those qualities. A little bit of handbags between Rashford and Godfrey, nothing in it really. England got straight in to the situation, calmed it down and had a firm word with both players which further took the heat out of the situation.

Then the Man Utd pantomime villain, Fernandez, committed a nasty foul where he raked his foot down the back of the Everton player’s ankle. The usual look of innocence and the usual protestations, but Darren England was on the spot and rightly cautioned him.

So far so good from the referee, I can see why he is highly rated by the powers that be.

I think Fernandes could've gotten worse than yellow. It's an intentional stamp with studs showing that starts high and drags down the leg. It's certainly at least "orange" and then he has the cheek at the end of the half to go up to England and start moaning about God knows what!

England has been excellent. Wish they'd give him these sort of games regularly in the Prem rather than being stuck most of the time in VAR
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Re: Manchester United v Everton - Darren England
« Reply #2 on: Fri 06 Jan 2023 21:55 »
To round off a great night for England, a correct penalty call

Brilliant display from England. I'd love to see him on another high profile TV game soon.

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« Reply #3 on: Fri 06 Jan 2023 21:58 »
Second half for the referee, a good continuation of the first. All cautions correct, a calm air of authority while certain players were on the point of losing some control.
Offside goal for Everton, marginal but correctly given as such, and the penalty at the end spot on too.

The one negative aspect is the complaining by players after a decision (usually correct) and this is a sad aspect of modern football, some would say, modern life. Referee gives a decision, players get on with it in some sports. In football, several players want to debate a decision. I read with some amusement that a new set of directives will come in dealing with dissent. It won’t last, it never does.

Darren England - a job well done.
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« Reply #4 on: Fri 06 Jan 2023 22:10 »
Good job Darren England. A fairly soft but supportable penalty decision.

Only let down is that Simon Bennett will be disappointed with missing the offside. One of the best assistants in the world should really be calling that
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« Reply #5 on: Fri 06 Jan 2023 22:49 »
Whilst nothing majorly wrong and got the main decision correct, I thought he was poor in the first half. I had no idea what was a foul and what wasn’t. 1 minute he would blow for a foul, the next 5 minutes he would let everything go, then for the next 5 minutes he would punish fouls that he was ignoring minutes earlier. A lot of the ones he did blow for were debatable at best.

Glad he improved in the second half and correct yellow cards for Everton. The tackle by Onana on Martinez was also a very poor challenge. Penalty correct.
I thought the disallowed was very close and can only think Bennett thought it was level 
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Re: Manchester United v Everton - Darren England
« Reply #6 on: Sat 07 Jan 2023 03:27 »
I struggle to rate England on VAR duties I think his really poor and struggles to make a decision.

Tonight poor first half lack of natural authority was evident but second half he was ok a tad better but nothing to get excited about
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Re: Manchester United v Everton - Darren England
« Reply #7 on: Sat 07 Jan 2023 15:41 »


"Only let down is that Simon Bennett will be disappointed with missing the offside. One of the best assistants in the world should really be calling that"

From memory the offside was "a big toe". This is exactly the sort of decision where VAR will get it right. A human being can only guess. I don't believe Bennett will have any concerns knowing that VAR is there to correct any wrong guess!
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Re: Manchester United v Everton - Darren England
« Reply #8 on: Mon 09 Jan 2023 19:41 »
First visit to Old trafford for myself in 4 years, and first for my 6 year old ever - so wasn't fully focused on the referee, but overall a solid performance.

From in the stadium as a few others said free kicks were a little random first half (though included in this was -from our view up 10 flights of stairs - a very soft yellow, that on TV viewing shows to be correct) but certainly there was a couple where very little contac twas made and free kick given, followed by a hefty tackle ignored.

Again, it is not a hot topic at that level, but I would like to see everything a bit stricter on dissent, Maupay (who BTW on that performance is stealing a living as a footballer) was giving his opinion on everything, from tryign to get Shaw booked for a push, to havign a go at the assistant around a throw in, culminating in giving the 4O a spray as he was subbed off. As I say I know theere is less cards for dissent at the top level, but some still do need to be given
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