Search results

I almost feel sorry for Palace. (Normal service will be resumed shortly).

Howler decisions can still be made, but I would have thought there will be fewer of them if both the on-field ref and the VAR look at it and are given the time and space to do so. I'm writing this just as the ref has stopped the game, after VAR was checking while the game continued, and he's...

Yes, fair point. That raises the question, is the first priority the match day experience, or make the correct decision, i.e follow the rules of the game to the letter? I'm not sure where I stand on that one. I can see both sides.

Rio and Crouch have both just said the ref made the right decision. Trying to be objective about it, if the ref goes to the screen, plays the video several times, and uncovers a mistake that both he and VAR have made, then that's a good thing, no?

Ah ok. I don't remember that. If I were a ref, and VAR had told me 'I think you made a mistake', in front of an audience of millions, I would want to play the video several times to make ABSOLUTELY SURE that having been given the chance to redeem myself, I came to the right decision in the end.

Has there ever been a time when the ref has gone over to the screen and stuck to his original decision? I can't remember it ever happening.

I'll say it very quietly. VAR enabled the correct decision to be made.

The foul on Endo wipes out the penalty then. I assume it wipes out the yellow for VVD?