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This is where, sooner or later, the game is going to come seriously unstuck. A clearly offside attacker breaks clear. The lino cba to stick his flag up. Keeper comes out and collides with the (offside) attacker. One or both suffer very serious injury. And all because the lino didn't flag...

There are penalties for time-wasting. It is down to the referees to penalise players who are time-wasting if they have suffered a blue card. Does reinforce the problem of inconsistency if some referees are using the blue card and others are "refusing". In my reffing days you had to enforce...

EPL referees receive a salary of up to £147K per annum. I would say they are absolutely paid enough! On top of that they get top hotels booked for them and chauffeur driven transport to and from games. And the job security of knowing that no matter how poorly they perform they aren't going to...

Isn't this at the heart of the issue? I don't think there is anything wrong with VAR as a concept nor with the underlying technology. The problem lies with the officials using it. Look at the time it took to send calamity James off last night. Ridiculous. The VAR ref should just have said...