Perhaps he'd decided that wasn't one of the rules he was going to enforce that day?
Standard of Referees
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Redofheaven2
First Team Squad
Did Senesi get a bit of the ball before he headed Morato or are we ignoring the Abbot rule this week?
Seconds before he had made a beeline, with no interest in the ball, to bear hug Morato so he couldn’t challenge the keeper.
Seconds before he had made a beeline, with no interest in the ball, to bear hug Morato so he couldn’t challenge the keeper.
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
What… like handball?
Browser79
Geoff Thomas
Pawson always gives everything - hit the deck and it’s yours. I imagine he lives with his mum and the ashes of his first pet - watching Lassie re-runs on Betamax with a comforter he could never quite kick. Absolute fanny.
Master Yates
Stuart Pearce
Probably thought it was better for their football development
Berkshire Red
John Robertson
Apart from when Bournemouth players go through the Forest man, though. Adams cleaned Jesus out towards the end right in front of him. He'd obviously decided only one side was winning from there.
Lord Wazzock
First Team Squad
Did anyone see the penalty appeal in the Everton v Spuds game? You've seen them given, just not against Spurs at home, when they could suffer relegation.
GregorRobertson
Jack Burkitt
Yeah that was bizarre. I’m convinced it was because he couldn’t be arsed with the hassle of a set piece launched into the box so just gave the throw then blew for time straight afterwards.
Ian Moore Gone Little
Geoff Thomas
The trouble is that Jesus is very good at going down whether or not he’s been fouled. There were a couple of occasions when he half-won the first ball but was off-balance and might not have kept possession and ‘bought’ the foul - I'd have been annoyed if we’d had a foul given against us for that. The inevitable result of this tendency is that refs will on occasions not give us a free kick when he is fouled. I remember the same thing happening with Jack Lester a few years ago.
vertigored
Viv Anderson
Every VAR error in 2025-26 Premier League: How Arsenal escaped red cards and penalties
Arsenal and Chelsea were the biggest beneficiaries of video assistant referee and on-field errors this season.
www.bbc.co.uk
See, knew the refs are brilliant, stats say so.
Absolute
I think they have still picked & chosen what they want to call errors.
Absolute bollox!Every VAR error in 2025-26 Premier League: How Arsenal escaped red cards and penalties
Arsenal and Chelsea were the biggest beneficiaries of video assistant referee and on-field errors this season.
See, knew the refs are brilliant, stats say so.
I think they have still picked & chosen what they want to call errors.
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Viv Anderson
Absolutely, Bolys “second yellow” last season wasn’t deemed an error as they couldn’t look at it, same shit this season. Pick and choose what they see as an error and suddenly they haven’t made any mistakes!
The other table that gets trotted out at this time of year is "teams that have benefitted from VAR decisions" (not just wrong ones)
The table you actually want (but doesn't exist but would be informative) is
Which teams are getting the questionable on-field calls in their favour, and are not getting questionable on-field decisions against them?
For example - attacker "feels slight contact" and goes down in the box.
Some teams get the decision and because there was 1 frame showing a fuzzy foot and a fuzzy leg "there isn't enough to overturn that"
Other teams don't get that same decision and because there was 1 frame showing a fuzzy foot and a fuzzy leg "there isn't enough to overturn that"
That's the table you want.
The table you actually want (but doesn't exist but would be informative) is
Which teams are getting the questionable on-field calls in their favour, and are not getting questionable on-field decisions against them?
For example - attacker "feels slight contact" and goes down in the box.
Some teams get the decision and because there was 1 frame showing a fuzzy foot and a fuzzy leg "there isn't enough to overturn that"
Other teams don't get that same decision and because there was 1 frame showing a fuzzy foot and a fuzzy leg "there isn't enough to overturn that"
That's the table you want.
valspoodle
Ian Bowyer
Who decides our refs decisions are correct?
GOBIAS
Ian Bowyer
25 errors????? Was this just in one week?
Richard Masters.
No mate, it was in 16.25 errors????? Was this just in one week?
GOBIAS
Ian Bowyer
FTFY, might as well be.
valspoodle
Ian Bowyer
I just wondered if it is like so much these days, the chaps mark their own papers. Thereby ensuring a pass mark and glorious praise for all the refs.
Of course, the rules are so opaque these days that they are the only people who can answer them.
Of course, the rules are so opaque these days that they are the only people who can answer them.
Redofheaven2
First Team Squad
Chewbakwa
Labled Uncurable
you get what you pay for?
PynchonForest
Stuart Pearce
Me. Youse guys are all wearing rose coloured glasses.
PynchonForest
Stuart Pearce
I have to say that this is a genuinely shocking stat. I do not understand how any side can go a full season without at least a few PKs being conceded. Especially with so many one goal victories.
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Viv Anderson
And straight up wrestling in the penalty box at corners