Anyone think the Zwayer appointment was just throwing a bone to the host country now that their team is out of it?
Is the standard still “clear and obvious error”? Because you can’t tell me that the no-handball call there is a clear and obvious error—that is,...
This would be a radical change, but I wonder if it would be better to have a handball in the box punished by an indirect kick rather than a...
I find it interesting because it resulted in an injury to the goalkeeper that arguably prevented him from saving Panama’s first goal, and the...
Ok, well let’s talk whether Barton got the call right. Not about whether he got it really wrong or just kind of wrong.
There’s several people in here fighting against a straw man about whether it should have been SFP because they have no way to defend the fact that...
We’re not talking about a red. We’re talking about a yellow. THAT’s not a yellow for you?
Come on man. Turner catches the ball above his head and the Panama player is nowhere close and takes out his legs. You think this is not reckless?...
Have they been posting these?
Just to be clear, he didn’t disallow a goal. He blew the whistle and the goalie and defender stopped playing before the ball was kicked into the...
Per MassRef’s comment in the other thread, also a second yellow that benefits Hungary, the referee’s home country
That’s fair. Although was Hungary already done with their games on 3 points when Kovacs was assigned? Seems like it could be predicted at that...
You would hope so. But you now have a Romanian referee overseeing the game that determines whether Romania has to play Netherlands, or whether...
Anyone starting to think it’s crazy that they gave Czech Republic-Turkey to Kovacs when the result of that game could directly affect Romania’s...
I’m Romanian, but I’m shocked that VAR said that foul was in the box. The initial contact seemed clearly outside.
