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Offline Baldy

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #1005 on: February 08, 2026, 10:49:17 PM »
A few of the obvious pushes on our players (and a couple of others not given) have had commentators state "VAR have upheld the decision that there wasn't enough contact to cause the player to fall like that".

Not sure what that means exactly but it seems to be the go to statement.

You could have 100 referees sitting in the same room watching a replay of the 'Buendia incident' and then making a decision. It could easily be 50/50, 60/40, 70/30.

Because referees are human beings and no human beings are perfect. 

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #1006 on: February 08, 2026, 10:50:23 PM »
Because referees are human beings and no human beings are perfect. 

Speak for yourself, mate.

Offline garyellis

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #1007 on: February 08, 2026, 10:55:42 PM »
There is no conspiracy against us, it’s just rank incompetence. The laws of the game interpreted seemingly differently week in week out, VAR causing uncertainty for on field officials and as Paul says above PGMOL being reactive rather than proactive in explaining decisions made by their officials. If they were a government department they’d be in special measures. I’ve been watching football since the early 90s and we’ve never had a group of officials (apart from that fat twat Phil Dowd) as incompetent as they are currently. What I would say in their defence is how FIFA are currently tinkering with the rulebook from season to season is not helping consistency and they need much better protocols about the use of and clarity of communication for VAR.

Other than that it’s all going swimmingly.
That is an excellent summary, absolutely spot on.

Offline Baldy

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #1008 on: February 08, 2026, 11:03:45 PM »
Because referees are human beings and no human beings are perfect. 

Speak for yourself, mate.

Sorry, I forgot about you.

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #1009 on: February 08, 2026, 11:04:17 PM »
A few of the obvious pushes on our players (and a couple of others not given) have had commentators state "VAR have upheld the decision that there wasn't enough contact to cause the player to fall like that".

Not sure what that means exactly but it seems to be the go to statement.

You could have 100 referees sitting in the same room watching a replay of the 'Buendia incident' and then making a decision. It could easily be 50/50, 60/40, 70/30.

Because referees are human beings and no human beings are perfect. 

Yes, referees are only human and make mistakes it’s just that they make most of them that go against us. It’s pretty obvious that the ref who didn’t penalise Garner for the non push had his knuckles rapped as that same ref gave a penalty yesterday for virtually the same incident for Chelsea.
As for VAR upholding a decision on a push. Do these VAR people have a secret power that allows them to determine or even see velocity?

Online LeonW

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Re: Standard of Refereeing
« Reply #1010 on: February 08, 2026, 11:34:48 PM »
A few of the obvious pushes on our players (and a couple of others not given) have had commentators state "VAR have upheld the decision that there wasn't enough contact to cause the player to fall like that".

Not sure what that means exactly but it seems to be the go to statement.

You could have 100 referees sitting in the same room watching a replay of the 'Buendia incident' and then making a decision. It could easily be 50/50, 60/40, 70/30.

Because referees are human beings and no human beings are perfect.

Great. But within 5 minutes the same incident is officiated differently and then in another game on the same match day, almost identical incident and it’s a penalty.

 


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