[Albion] The Newcastle corner given in the 11th minute

[Slum_Wolf]

Pawson was just testing his line of communication to the boss was fully functional...

 

[dazzer6666]

It was fairly clear Verbruggen had tipped it around the post from the WSU, probably less so from a lower angle, so I'm not surprised the lino didn't seem sure.

Yep, I sit pretty much bang in line in WSL and didn't spot the touch (and neither did Junior who is way better at spotting this stuff than me)

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Was a weird one in real time from behind the goal. Looked for all the world like two of ours messed up going for the same ball, allowing one of their to get a shot in that went a foot past the post and the keeper never got anywhere near.

Note to self: should 'of' gone to Specsavers

I’ll join you as that’s what I thought at the time too!

 

[Official Old Man]

Don't think this was the OPs point - it's about how he made his decision / who he was talking to.

Does it matter

Yes. If the VAR are going to intervene on a simple corner then they should start telling the ref about other things.
You cant do one without the other.
And yes, I too saw the incident and spoke about it at the time.

 

[Machiavelli]

Don't think this was the OPs point - it's about how he made his decision / who he was talking to.

It wouldn't be VAR, because it doesn't fall under their remit.
I suspect he was talking to the lino and/or fourth official.

 

[Bodian]

It wouldn't be VAR, because it doesn't fall under their remit.
I suspect he was talking to the lino and/or fourth official.

Surprised if they could see much better than him though!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Early doors in this shit show of a refereeing performance Newcastle had a shot which appeared to go wide. Their players claimed a corner.

After what seemed like an age, and the ref talking into his mike he gave the corner.

My question, who was he talking to? The lino was running away from the corner and clearly thought it was a goal kick. The fourth official was miles away by comparison to the ref, similarly the other Lino. So was it VAR?

Which made me think are they allowed to generally chat about decisions like this with them because this feels like the only explanation?

Just because the lino was running away doesn't mean he wasn't talking to the ref. That's their job, to talk to each other. It may be the lino said goal kick but Morton Pawson said he thought the keeper had got a touch (which he did- watch the replay) and the assistant went "fair enough, couldn't see from my angle". The assistants are there to help the ref but he's the one who makes the decisions (badly in yesterday's case for the most part). If he thinks he's seen something they haven't, he's within his rights to go with it.

I'm happy to criticise Pawson's awful officiating yesterday but that was a rare legitimate action and a correct decision. You could tell some of the Albion players knew Bart had touched it because they didn't run off to assume their goal kick positions in as committed a manner as they would if they were sure.

 

[Machiavelli]

Surprised if they could see much better than him though!

Agreed, but there could be many reasons why it took a while to make/confirm the decision. The one reason I reject completely is that it was made by VAR, because it's a conspiratorial suggestion.