That was a RC in any match I do. Having said that my first though watching it was “I bet he goes yellow and that’s yellow in the EPL most of the time.” The Italians were not clamoring for it but the Welsh player I think knew it. He immediately turned his back and started to walk away.
After watching it live a few more times, I'm more into the red camp now. I think the force is simply excessive even if the position of the studs is more in the yellow territory.
Yeah that was a lot to deal with. Have to figure AR gave him the first one, which he was processing while watching the second one happen. Correct and tricky.
Is it me or are very many matches with X minutes' stoppage time ending at (X-1):55? I get refs are not microwave timers, it just seems oddly and frequently early. Nothing-burger that makes me go "hmm."
Hategan right now is the Ice Cream Man of the tournament: second yellow to Krychowiak in Poland vs Slovakia and now this one.
The TV clock often doesn't sync with the stadium clock (although at this level, it should) and that often doesn't match exactly with the official's watch. Anything close is good enough.
Two red cards in the tournament. Two given by Hategan. Not the greatest feeling in the world I bet. The first yellow in his 2YC was a bit soft, but I think he got conned a bit by the attacker.
I often see the scorebug clocks start several seconds after the ball is put into play. So what's probably happening is the referee is starting his watch, then the kickoff happens, then the scorebug and the clock show up on the screen. So when you add those together, you probably are looking at the official time 3-5 seconds ahead of what we see on TV.
Snapshot I’m not sure it this adds anything that hasn’t already been said but I feel less bad about this First impression watching the match with family: Oh no he grabbed the wrong card the more I saw it the more correct it looked.
I mean yeah that all makes sense. Same add-ons would theoretically apply in other competitions. Why i even mention this is that in those other ones I don't perceive FT happening a few seconds prior to stated added time, rather significant seconds (or more) after.
I’d also add that when we start the watch before the ball is kicked, which is a good idea, we should be aware tha full time is a few seconds after it shows.
Ah, but here is yet another quirk of refereeing at a tournament. As much as that may seem like a reasonable/sensible approach, the ramifications of doing that could be huge, especially at this tournament. As you know, four of the six 3rd-placed sides will advance, with the method of determining those being well-known; namely points, goal difference, goals scored, number of wins in that order. But, given that each team only plays three games, the chances of two or more teams having identical records are quite high, and in that case, the next criteria to determine ranking is disciplinary record - the team with the lowest disciplinary points (1 for each yellow, 3 for each red) would advance, so you have to play it "straight" as a Referee, otherwise you could impact who advances, and who does not. To illustrate the point about how important this might be, you need only look at possible scenarios and you see this could well come into play. For instance, take two highly possible results from MD3 - if Ukraine and Austria draw 0-0 and Croatia beat Scotland 2-1, Austria and Croatia finish third in their respective groups, but their records would be identical in all aspects, so their rankings could only be determined by disciplinary record. There are currently a few scenarios where this could happen with a certain combination of results - Belgium 1-1 with Finland and Croatia 1-0 creates the same situation with Finland and Croatia - so the integrity of how (in)discipline is managed on MD3 must be maintained as the chances of disciplinary record coming into play is relatively high.
IMO, that's a YC all day long in the Premier League. Equally I don't think that if Hategan goes YC it gets upgraded by VAR. Having said all that, I believe UEFA want that sort of thing stamped down on in this tournament, so to speak, so can fully understand why Hategan went RC. Just shows the different expectations between different nations/confederations.