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One would suggest that based on the restart the attacking team has been penalised for encroachment.

The video is available here for those interested: https://www.bscyb.ch/news?nid=12645

#14's tackle given as a yellow looks like SFP.  Clearly studs showing and makes contact with the shin, albeit a 'glancing' blow which is probably why he avoided being sent off.  Missed RC for me.

The red card given?  I'm comfortable with this.  I can see a debate on DOGSO or promising attack, but it's a clear shirt pull and RC is definitely defensible.

For the IFK for the penalty, when the still frame is reviewed, player #93 is clearly into the penalty area, whilst defensive #5 doesn't look his feet have crossed the line.  Collum is looking and pointing at #93 and he's the player that scores/forces the goal.  I don't see a LotG failure here. 

I'm not sure what you've seen, but the still frame only clearly shows one player entering the penalty area as the kick is taken.  Not sure where you think six has come from?

Detailed summary BMB, thank you. I haven’t seen the match yet but from what you’ve written it would seem that Kavanagh could/should have intervened as VAR?

There was a long VAR review!

Willie C will get ticks for Key decisions but and this is personal opinions... we must be the lowest of the Elite referees.
Even giving the correct decisions he does not look comfortable or inspire confidence.

This! He'd managed to wind up both sets of players within 15 mins, there was a mass show of dissent with both teams having their say and judging by the gestures none of it was good!! The players clearly didn't respect him or have any confidence in him throughout the game. As a viewer I never felt he had control at all & I fall into the category of always defending the referee unless a decision is clearly indefensible. I've seen far better Cat 2 & 3 refs, who we normally get at our lowly level.

At the end of the day, the better team won on the pitch, even with 10 men they dominated. They are a stronger, better team from a bigger and better league & it showed.  Fradi fought well though but failed to take advantage of the 1 man deficit. The result was as we all expected before kick off. Kharatin is now suspended for the 2nd leg but hopefully Tokmac will be back & on fire!

I think BMB was referring to UEFA categories, with Collum "Elite" and others Cat 1/2 or even 3

Quote from: RCG on Thu 19 Aug 2021 21:56

I think BMB was referring to UEFA categories, with Collum "Elite" and others Cat 1/2 or even 3

Indeed I was.  We normally get UEFA Cat 2/3 referees on Hungarian games, club and National team, it's rare we get an elite ref, except at big tournaments obviously on the rare occasions we qualify for them!

Apologies, both.  I take the point.

I have now watched the game and feel on balance he got most of the decisions right. I can only assume that VAR looked at the yellow card  and considered it was acceptable so no OFR was required. From what I saw, apart for the usual crowd noise when the officials left the field there were no mass protests at half or full time so I'm not sure where all the wound up players were? Likewise when the encroachment for the penalty was given there were no significant protests. The commentators (for what thee are worth were roundly critical but after several watchings were agreeing his calls were correct

Technically he is accurate (with the penalty) and was always up with play which helped him make the calls.

I would agree with Tweed he is a bit of an enigma. I think he's not one of the current crop of 'personality referees' and doesn't whistle long and loud like Brych or referee by reputation (Orsato/Kuipers). I also think it can't help when the same referees are being handed match after match irrespective of good, bad, or indifferent performances; this can't help with any confidence issues with Collum and in the remaining Elite Group referees. I would also agree that his 'staying in the background' (which is surely what we all want?) makes him look unconfident and he does seek to play on wherever possible which often brings criticism (from the uninitiated). A prime example being during Turkey V Czech Rep in Euro'16, he played and advantage and when the ball was played through the flag went up for offside (remember those days?). He brought back play to the original foul to a barrage of complaints from the commentators and players - I'm not sure why since calling back to the original foul was, surely the correct decision after the advanced didn't work?

I think his watershed was the all Spanish Super Cup in 2015 when he did what he was told and kept all the players on the pitch and I think this affected his confidence. I also think he suffers from Scotland not using VAR consistently. Why people keep lobbying for him to loose his Elite Status while supporting the likes of Grindfeld, Dias, Turpin and Hetegan, for example is beyond me. Likewise, the constant insinuation that it's only Hugh Dallas' influence that is keeping he Elite status, if that was the case then why wasn't he at the Euros? My final point of agreement with Tweed, he is the best I've seen for a long, long time despite the the criticism he gets.