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Agree with all that, and would add that I can accept referees making mistakes or falling on the wrong side of a borderline decision (we all make mistakes, and borderline decisions are by definition difficult), but what I can't accept is an overall policy that is detrimental to the game and those...

I'm warming to the 60 minute in-play with independent (ie not the on-field ref) timing idea. The one issue that won't resolve which was very much in evidence last night is that the time-wasting tactic isn't just to prevent the opposition from playing, it's also to deflate their momentum, which...

Also, has the rule changed that when a physio comes on to tend to a player that player no longer needs to leave the pitch? (This happened in the first half.) That was one of the lengthy stoppages in the first half that led that ref to add ONE extra minute.

Dreadful ref. It's not just the 5 minutes in the second half. There was only one in the first half, and he didn't even see that out. Very quick to stop the game when one of their players went down, which they did often, because they knew they could get away with it.