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Quote from: highfieldlatic on Mon 19 Jan 2026 16:39

Who is Dale Johnson, and why is he regarded as the oracle on here??

https://x.com/DaleJohnsonBBC

Ex ESPN now BBC does a lot of sensible VAR reviews and seems to be very much in the know

.....about eight minutes from full time there was a collision between a Palace forward and Sunderland defender Omar Alderete which ended up with our defender injured.I sit behind the North Stand goal where the incident occurred and whilst it looked like a flailing arm or hand it was purely unintentional when the contact came.

Alderete lay on the pitch for a few seconds and the referee waved on our physio however what happened then was the player got up and pointed at his lower jaw and cheek area where the contact had taken place and he didn't need treatment.

The referee insisted he had a head injury and made him leave the field of play even though he jogged off without any assistance however this left us one man down for thirty seconds.

 What a silly CORRECT thing to do by the referee.

And perhaps like pantomime villains, the better they do their job, the louder the booing.

The first Howard Webb show .....

"Timber goes over the top of the ball in a stamping motion, doesn’t play any of the ball, catches the spurs player high above the ankle."