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[Football] Lee Mason "retiring" at the end of the season



BBassic

BBassic

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GT49er

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We have good news ............... and we have bad news .......


The good news:
BBassic said:
Referee Lee Mason will retire from officiating at the end of the 2020-21 Premier League season.
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.... and now the bad news ........
BBassic said:
The Premier League have confirmed that Mason will become the league's first dedicated Video Assistant Referee (VAR) from the 2021-22 season.
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Stat Brother

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Jul 11, 2003
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BBassic said:


The Premier League have confirmed that Mason will become the league's first dedicated Video Assistant Referee (VAR) from the 2021-22 season.

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blue-shifted

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Feb 20, 2004
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GT49er said:
We have good news ............... and we have bad news .......


The good news:


.... and now the bad news ........
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Ahhh Permanent VAR official. Perfect for refs unable to keep up with the pace of play
 






hart's shirt

hart's shirt

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Jul 8, 2003
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BBassic said:
The Premier League have confirmed that Mason will become the league's first dedicated Video Assistant Referee (VAR) from the 2021-22 season.
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We can now expect VAR to change its mind.
 




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essbee1

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Medwayseagull said:
Will the VAR studio have to be on the ground floor as he can't manage the stairs ?
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And just so that he feels at home and to retain consistency with his usual c*ck style of reffing, the VAR screen will be placed 60 metres from
where he is positioned.
 






B-right-on

B-right-on

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Apr 23, 2015
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Younger than Mike Dean and quite a few of the other PL refs.
 






trueblue

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Jul 5, 2003
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If we're going to keep VAR there's a lot of sense in older, good refs continuing their careers for longer and specialising in that. Use their experience and reduce the travel and workload for the younger officials. Whether Lee Mason falls into the category of 'good refs' is a different conversation.
 


Pavilionaire

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Jul 7, 2003
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BBassic said:
Referee Lee Mason will retire from officiating at the end of the 2020-21 Premier League season.

The Premier League have confirmed that Mason will become the league's first dedicated Video Assistant Referee (VAR) from the 2021-22 season.
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He's perfect for VAR - takes minutes to reach a decision, then gets it wrong.
 


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I like the idea of dedicated VAR refs - perhaps moving on working refs from 45-48 and giving them a few years as dedicated VAR.
 






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nickbrighton

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One of the things that this season of watching 75/80% of all this seasons PL matches on TV has highlighted for me is the standard of refereeing. When 90% of the games I watched on TV were Albion away games, and being in the stadium for all our home games my view of the refereeing decisions was somewhat biased. We always think the ref is more lenient towards the bigger club, has it in for us etc but I always thought that actually it probably did balance itself out over the season, and that there were genuine mistakes and in reality Refs did the best that they could

How wrong I was. When you are able to take the emotion out of a game when you have no real vested interest in who wins you get a much more subjective view and it has to be said the standard of referring is appalling. there is very little consistency even in a single game, and when you look at penalties and other calls given and denied by the same ref for different teams in the same match it starts to look like not just bad refereeing but actual deliberate bias. There was a bit of an uproar when FIFA didnt use Prem League refs at the last world cup but I can certainly see why now.
 




Jeremiah

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