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Howard Webb urges VAR officials to intervene more often on soft penalties, and reminded referees about the importance of giving a yellow card for dissent and waving an imaginary card (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (7 children)

Are referees goldfish?

They had this new edict at the start of the season regarding dissent and waving imaginary cards and stuck by it, more or less. Then they forgot about it and have to be reminded about it again?

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    It always happens though, they start the season being better about letting soft challenges go, and booking people for dissent etc. Then the big name managers and the pundits who support those clubs start to complain and the refs back off. I wish they'd just stick to their guns

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    They might have stuck with it a bit longer this year but they do the same thing at the start of every season. They highlight or change some rule, make a show cracking down on it for a few weeks then promptly forget all about it.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    Look I know punching down at referees is popular. And I think we can all agree they’ve been extra shit this year. But if you’ve ever been a manager or managed a team of people, you’d not be surprised at this one bit. It’s something you’d hope a leader of a team would do; remind the team of their goals as we all can get distracted, not remain as focused as we’d like, and none of us are perfect.

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