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Horrendous from Salisbury to give a free kick because the crowd appealed and somehow AR2 has managed to miss a simple offside straight after.

As usual, we complain about VAR, but when it’s not in use, it shows how poor our officials are.

Quote from: Ref95 on Fri 27 Dec 2024 21:15

Inexcusable decision not to send off Joao Pedro for violent conduct, Madley should have seen it, how VAR haven’t intervened is unbelievable.

Evidently as there was no contact it cannot be a red card. Intent is not a red card offence nowadays.

However, it was a stupid act of petulance from Joao Pedro and he was damn lucky there was no contact.

In law it’s a clear red card, there may be directives from the powers that be, but they’d be wrong in law. The key quote from law is ‘regardless of whether contact is made’.

Red card for Souttar obviously correct. The red for Mepham is wrong for me, the touch from the attack is significantly away from goal that it cannot be an obvious goal scoring opportunity. I believe Ward has realised he could have played advantage and then cautioned later, but instead has blown early and then felt obliged to show red.

I agree Tim and team didn't have the best afternoon, but no major mistakes.

Got several minor decisions wrong early on, throw ins given the wrong way, an obvious corner to Leicester given as a goal kick but nothing major incorrect. Phillips was lucky to only receive a yellow card for a late elbow charge into the head of a Leicester player towards the end of the first half. His second caution was an obvious reckless challenge so no choice for Tim.

Penalty shout for Ipswich was the correct call for me, looked like Chaplin threw himself into the Leicester player, certainly not enough for VAR to overturn.

Correct call not to award a foul in the build up to the Leicester goal too, Soumare just too strong for both Ipswich players.

Absolutely the correct call at the end in my opinion. Seems to be a complete lack of understanding by the Sky Sports team as usually as well.

I believe what has happened is Bramall has given offside on field, albeit late following a discussion with Kavanagh. VAR has recommended a review, during which Kavanagh has recognised Bernardo is clearly not interfering with Sa, and therefore not committing any offence.

Sky Sports mentioning the nudge by Bernardo on Sa prior to the header, but obviously this is irrelevant as he cannot be offside before the header occurs and it’s clearly not a foul.

Probably should have been a foul on Vardy in the build up to the Arsenal goal, he’s clearly pulled back.

Califiori clearly should have received a SYC, perhaps the pressure of sending off an Arsenal player for the 3rd week in a row got to Barrott?

Skipp could (should) also have have gone late on for a SYC, but Barrott instead played a strange advantage when one wasn’t really there and therefore couldn’t caution Skipp (was a SPA incident).

In all honesty, I don’t think I’ve actually seen Barrott have a good game when I’ve watched him live. He’s very inconsistent with his decision making and issuing of cards. I’m sure he must have plenty of good games to be SG1 already, maybe I’ll catch one eventually!!

The handball should stay with the on field decision, whatever that happened to be. There is clearly not enough evidence to say whether it is or isn’t handball and therefore VAR shouldn’t be getting involved.

However, that is not the case with the Joelinton incident who clearly should have seen red. Coote should have identified this without VAR as he is looking straight at it, but for VAR to not then intervene is not acceptable. That could have caused Neto a serious injury, ticks the boxes for VC or SFP.