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« on: Sun 25 Jan 2026 21:44 »
Flawless from Oliver. He glides through games with such calmness, whilst clearly having the respect of the players. To be fair, this was a very easy game to officiate, two teams who wanted to play football the right way, with no major flashpoints, but that shouldn’t detract from how brilliant Oliver was. For me, he’s head and shoulders clear as the best referee in SG1 and probably Europe.
As for the game, don’t think we have any Brighton correspondents on here, but if there is, sincere apologies. That was the biggest robbery since Brinks Mat!
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« on: Sat 17 Jan 2026 20:21 »
I actually thought Kavanagh was very good. Every Fulham booking justified (five I believe) and the obligatory yellow for Silva on the touch line. There were two bookings in the space of a minute midway through the first half, both very clear. This was too much for Silva who was up to his usual antics. As a Fulham fan, I love the man for what he’s done for the club, but find his behaviour pathetic at times. It’s every single week, and he has now lost all credibility. Even when he may have a point, it just looks like him having yet another tantrum. Someone at the club needs to have a stern word with him.
No complaints at all with Kavanagh, did everything he had to, and did it well. Fulham were dreadful and Leeds thoroughly deserved the win.
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« on: Mon 05 Jan 2026 13:29 »
One thing I’m really struggling to get my head around, there have been much tighter offside calls than this, where literally an earlobe or a toenail is offside and is so close that you can’t actually call it with the naked eye, yet have still been given as offside? This one is very clear, Wirtz is obviously offside, yet all of a sudden we’re talking about 5cm tolerances? If that is really the case, then so many previously disallowed goals should have been allowed to stand, surely? The whole thing stinks to me. This is clearly an error, yet they want to hide behind a rule that has seemingly never been used before. Dreadful, and for me personally, all faith has finally been lost in the PGMOL.
Yes, there have been many much more debatable / close decisions that have been disallowed. I would imagine this is to do with the choice of frame being chosen, but highlights (yet another) issue with VAR.
Because there is no chip in the ball we do not know for sure when contact is made. So the VAR selects from 3 frames he is offered. Given the speed players move at, this inherently means the system is inaccurate.
Whichever way they have gone about it, this clearly looks offside but unless we're using the Adidas ball with a chip in it then unfortunately the system should not be used at all because there are too many inaccuracies and too much guesswork. Wirtz was offside IMO.
Apologies for the dislike emoji, fat fingers, I meant to hit the agree emoji! I concur with everything you said there.
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« on: Mon 05 Jan 2026 12:15 »
One thing I’m really struggling to get my head around, there have been much tighter offside calls than this, where literally an earlobe or a toenail is offside and is so close that you can’t actually call it with the naked eye, yet have still been given as offside? This one is very clear, Wirtz is obviously offside, yet all of a sudden we’re talking about 5cm tolerances? If that is really the case, then so many previously disallowed goals should have been allowed to stand, surely? The whole thing stinks to me. This is clearly an error, yet they want to hide behind a rule that has seemingly never been used before. Dreadful, and for me personally, all faith has finally been lost in the PGMOL.
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« on: Sat 13 Dec 2025 21:59 »
Exquisite from Oliver. World class. Makes it look effortless.
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« on: Mon 08 Dec 2025 16:29 »
Well I’m quite shocked to be completely honest. No disrespect to Peter Bankes whatsoever but I thought the Tyne and Wear derby was nailed on to be Taylor or Kavanagh. But I hope it runs smoothly for him.
Nice to see Bramall with a decent game and Brooks straight back into action as well.
For what it’s worth, I believe Peter Bankes has been the best performing SG1 official this season. Never shirks a big decision, doesn’t pander to the ‘big 6’ and refuses to be swayed by volatile home crowds, which I don’t think can be said for every SG1 ref, although I’m sure that won’t be an opinion shared by all on here. A very deserved appointment IMHO.
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« on: Sun 23 Nov 2025 09:36 »
Very good I thought, contributed to an entertaining game. A few 50-50’s went Fulham’s way, so I can understand why some Sunderland fans felt slightly aggrieved, but nothing that made any difference to the result. Fulham were fairly dominant throughout. A solid 8/10 from England overall, decent performance.
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« on: Sun 09 Nov 2025 16:10 »
Outstanding from Madley, almost perfection. Not a referee I’m always overly enamoured to see on Fulham games, but credit where it’s due, absolutely brilliant. Again, same as Bankes in our previous away game at Newcastle, he didn’t at any point bow down to the demands of a very hostile crowd, and just gave everything as he saw it. The last few performances from refs in Fulham games, Bankes, Brooks (v Wolves) and now Madley have restored a little bit of faith. Here’s hoping things continue in this vain.
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« on: Mon 03 Nov 2025 15:57 »
Humble pie time for me, along with some serious backtracking! I defended Boothroyd a few weeks ago, but since then the wheels have well and truly come off the whole show. Boothroyd now seems to revel in his role of being controversial for the sake of it, talking utter garbage most of the time. Dermot looks like he’d rather be anywhere else, and the presenter for this mornings show was dreadful and like a rabbit in headlights. An awful hour of what was once an entertaining and informative watch. Sky need to act and quickly.
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« on: Sun 26 Oct 2025 15:40 »
An excellent showing from Bankes. He has always struck me as a brave referee, giving exactly what he sees, and never one to be swayed by a volatile, baying crowd. For this reason I’m always pleased to see his name when we’re away at grounds such as Newcastle. Nothing I saw yesterday dissuaded me from that view, he was strong and firm, and got pretty much everything spot on, playing a big part in a cracking game of football. Heartbreak at the end for my mob, but I saw enough to think we’ll be fine this season (not famous last words hopefully!)
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« on: Wed 01 Oct 2025 10:18 »
The explanations are getting more and more ridiculous unfortunately.
The Arsenal foul is a penalty IMO and PGMOL have routinely used the "a touch on the ball doesn't mean it's not a foul" excuse when contact has been ignored. There was no mention on the VAR audio of the Sanchez touch on the ball when fouling Mbuemo, because the VAR didn't even look for it. So we have one VAR who sees a touch on the ball and decides to pressure the official into changing his decision, and another VAR who doesn't notice a touch on the ball. Both were fouls, regardless of the touch on the ball, yet one VAR completely missed the touch - why was he not checking for it?
The Brentford offside audio showed that the VAR didn't even consider the actions of Ouattara, it was absolutely ignored. There was no discussion of his actions and if he was interfering.
They are tying themselves up in knots trying to defend manifestly inconsistent decision making.
The Ouattara one was startling. As you say, the VAR or AVAR didn’t even notice it, which is shocking. This is now a real worry. How can they miss such an important action? Whatever conclusion they would’ve come to is a moot point, the fact it wasn’t noticed and at least discussed is a massive red flag.
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« on: Mon 29 Sep 2025 22:07 »
Thought he was below par. At least two clear yellow card tackles in the first half, for which he gave the free kick, but no further sanction. And therein lies the problem with this current batch of SG1 officials, there is seemingly zero consistency, it’s as though the players have to adapt to each referees style in any given game, because I guarantee, those two tackles in particular would have been yellows for the majority of referees, and lesser tackles will be punished in this weekends games. That alone cannot be right. These guys really need to get their heads together and start singing from the same hymn sheet, as currently, it’s a complete and utter mess unfortunately.
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« on: Mon 29 Sep 2025 15:58 »
I haven’t seen what Lord Gallagher had to say, but was there any mention of our game yesterday and the Josh King penalty claim?
Incidentally, it seems Hackett has been in full blown rant mode in the media, with Hooper and Gillett in his firing line this week.
Dermot felt that it wasn’t a penalty as he felt King was possible already going down. Both he and Bothroyd agreed (for once!) that it certainly shouldn’t have been a yellow card either, and just playing on would’ve been the correct call.
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« on: Mon 29 Sep 2025 14:14 »
Boothroyd is too quick to accuse referees for not looking at the incidents from the player's perspective. They haven't played the game at the highest level and the implication is they don't know what they are doing. I preferred the version / team last season.
Referees will have refereed hundred of games, reviewothoed footage of many others and are at the end of the day, accountable to their bosses. Boothroyd should review incidents based on LOG, official guidance and SKY should be discouraged from making the program a conflict of opinion. But then, it doesn't make such good viewing!
Totally agree with you regarding the use of ex footballers in VAR giving their opinion, Bothroyd does push that narrative too much, but I’m with you, it’s nonsense. I do believe he makes some valid points though. Both refs and VAR have had a shocking start to the season, such as the nonsense about Mbuemo not having control of the ball being given as the reason VAR did not consider it DOGSO. Bothroyd quite rightly pointing out that he was about to shoot first time with no intention of controlling it. He was spot on. Dermot meanwhile was flapping around before ultimately agreeing it should’ve been a straight red. Perhaps he isn’t particularly likeable, and can come across as abrasive and brash, but I still prefer him to Warnock and Sue ‘sit on the fence’ Smith from last season.
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« on: Mon 29 Sep 2025 13:05 »
Anyone watch it this morning? You could cut the tension with a knife! Dermot had an early pop when he asked Jay Bothroyd “to let him finish speaking”. Not sure if anything had happened off screen previously, but Dermot was stony faced all through the show, far from his usual jocular self. To be fair to Bothroyd, he speaks his mind and doesn’t care about putting Dermot on the spot or asking tricky questions. I found myself agreeing with Bothroyd far more than Dermot, and have done for sometime now. Dermot has become far too wishy washy and vague, rarely giving a straight answer to a straight question. Made for an interesting, if somewhat uncomfortable watch at times!
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