The Refereeing Thread

[Uppercut]

Anyone else noticed international refs are now calling less fouls than Premiership ones? Always expecting players to get the free kick when they decide to fall over under pressure, but usually they don’t. It’s much better.

 

[GIMH]

I've only seen about half of the games so far but haven't noticed any clangers yet. Can't be a bad sign.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

del Cerro goes on The List, huh?

 

[JOJOXI]

Anyone else noticed international refs are now calling less fouls than Premiership ones? Always expecting players to get the free kick when they decide to fall over under pressure, but usually they don’t. It’s much better.

Was having a similar conversation with a friend the other day who made a similar observation and was thinking how things have changed as recall especially with UCL highlights on ITV in years past they would suggest foreign refs are almost too soft in giving fouls - a point made generally and then especially for goalkeepers

 

[Lillian Thomson]

France v Portugal was the only really poor refereeing performance. Pep was worried before the CL Final having seen this bloke make up his own rules before. Hopefully he’ll be sent home before the knockouts.

 

[Furball]

France v Portugal was the only really poor refereeing performance. Pep was worried before the CL Final having seen this bloke make up his own rules before. Hopefully he’ll be sent home before the knockouts.

I thought he was rubbish for the Scotland v England game as well. No massive game changing clangers, but I don't think I'd trust him to get big calls right.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

A mildly interesting postscript to the England/Ukraine match. The referee didn’t add on any added time. There should certainly have been some. Obviously there was little point, but I don’t recall a referee using that sort of common sense or discretion before.

 

[GIMH]

A mildly interesting postscript to the England/Ukraine match. The referee didn’t add on any added time. There should certainly have been some. Obviously there was little point, but I don’t recall a referee using that sort of common sense or discretion before.

When TRFC shipped seven at home to Spurs, the ref stuck a token 1 on. Given six goals came in the second half and there were other stoppages it was obviously a mercy kill. But tonights was just straight to the point.

 

[Uppercut]

I thought 2 minutes was now the standard for those situations. I guess this being the biggest game of the Ukrainian players' lives made it more imperative to put them out of their misery asap.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The refereeing was pretty good. With England going the distance there was no chance of Oliver and Attwell screwing up the Final.