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Snatchday 1: Nottingham Forest Vs the PGMOL

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ForestWon

First Team Squad
Hmmm: FA trying to play it safe, (they're hoping) by given Forest a ref V Man City (Simon Hooper) who himself - faced a lot of scrutiny this season, including: annoying Man City, and Liverpool too;- both were V Spurs. Then there was Wolves: non penalty, when Onana "took out" Sasa Kalajdzic...

Simon Hooper - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

simple.m.wikipedia.org simple.m.wikipedia.org

Not implying anything of course, just pointing out the facts...
 
valspoodle

valspoodle

Steve Chettle
I used to find that chaps who were very good at networking, carried their briefcase in a business like manner and used the correct lingo (like "ball park" and other like phrases) got promoted over workers who were better at their jobs, but didn't have that essential brown-nosing ability.

Perhaps refs are promoted because they blow their whistle correctly and signal in an elegant way; similarly linos (or assistant refs) are marked on how smoothly they run up and down the line. wave their flag in the appropriate manner and look jolly efficient overall.

As has been mentioned, making decisions doesn't matter because all decisions are subjective, so can't be wrong. It's not making the correct decision, it's looking good whilst doing it.
 
DizzyBala

DizzyBala

Jack Armstrong
Collymore showing himself to be the prize bellend that a number of us suspected him to be.

Idolised him as a kid, but lost any respect I had for him when he realised he joined the Fawaz protest stuff but then when he realised he wasn't going to get a pound note out of the club, he f**ked off.
He'd pipe up again every now and then when we were in the news.

f*** him off IMO, give his spot in our Best Ever XI to someone else.
 
Flaggers

Flaggers

May not be the best moderator on LTLF, but he's...
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Jah

Jah

Jack Armstrong
I don't know if it happens, but I would assume the ref would look for clarification from VAR that the big decisions looked right to a fellow professional. Like a quick question in the next break of play... "was I right, did Young get the ball?" If the answer is "dunno, I didnt bother looking" then we have a huge issue.
 
Erik

Erik

oopsy daisy!
LTLF Minion
Jah said:
I don't know if it happens, but I would assume the ref would look for clarification from VAR that the big decisions looked right to a fellow professional. Like a quick question in the next break of play... "was I right, did Young get the ball?" If the answer is "dunno, I didnt bother looking" then we have a huge issue.
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If Attwell confirmed Young had got the ball he must have thought that Taylor was belatedly asking him about the handball in the first half.
 
Frank Clark’s Tash

Frank Clark’s Tash

Jack Burkitt
If the VAR being a Luton fan is of no consequence, as his fine character is beyond reproach, then why do officials have to state their alliegences at the start of every season? Either it is a factor or it isn't!

I'm sure if the VAR for our match against Man City was an Arsenal fan then he'd get swapped out pretty fooking quickly! How about a Liverpool fan as VAR for the cup final?

No, thought not.
 
apondaway

apondaway

Viv Anderson
We get so much in the moment dialogue in F1 that Sky clearly has the technology and means to provide real-time interactions with the VAR official,
 
Redemption

Redemption

Chief Eye Roller
apondaway said:
We get so much in the moment dialogue in F1 that Sky clearly has the technology and means to provide real-time interactions with the VAR official,
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The process for VAR, as it is an extension of the Laws of the Games, is determined by IFAB who are not party to any broadcast arrangements.
 
Notcher

Notcher

Stuart Pearce
Frank Clark’s Tash said:
If the VAR being a Luton fan is of no consequence, as his fine character is beyond reproach, then why do officials have to state their alliegences at the start of every season? Either it is a factor or it isn't!
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This is the point made by the caller on Talksport this morning but was shouted down on a rant by Simon Jordan.

8mins 50secs onwards

 
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