At that level, the teams should be partnering with a hotel in the area. The road team is probably being put up for a night… I doubt they travel in...
There is something to be said about rethinking an assignment if a team has a reasonable request to do so, especially at this level.
He wasn’t VARing for Luton. He was VARing Everton v Forest, which has implications for Luton in the relegation race.
How many degrees of separation is required for a referee to be unbiased? There are four teams at the bottom of the table that all games matter. In...
The two minutes off for injury is stupid.
Well, it’s the dark side of soccer ultra culture, not unlike the hooliganism of the 1990s. There is a need to move beyond the act to its impact...
This one I don’t get. Once the game is shut down in accordance with the guidelines, the ref is irrelevant. The story is the fans and the chant....
there were 3 retakes of a single free kick in the defense third at the 5’ mark in Cincinnati for this reason. All of them played square… no...
The better metric may be cards… aside from NYCFC: Van, the games had over 5 cards, with 9 cards being typical. We could look at MLS ref stats...
Interesting choice of words… very Bayesian. From my viewpoint, this weekend was bad for PRO/MLS position. The problems that are coming up now...
isn’t this kind of borne out by the fact that the guy that was the head of PRO was hired away by the EPL? Given discussions of EPL reffing here,...
The misunderstanding is that it takes personality and presence to make it through a season as a referee at that level. Players see a referee a...
This contact didn’t seem much different from the penalty given to Chicago vs. Cincinnati. But, it’s definitely a bold choice to ignore a call...
It’s going to be player frustration boiling over. Pro players seem willing to put up with poor refereeing to a point. They are probably also being...
Interesting call down by VAR in Chicago-Cincinnati.
Maybe this. But, they seem willing to pay more for players now in the Messi/Apple era.
PRO’s credible long-term solution is rebuilding the referee corps, a 3-5 year project. There must also be a hope on PROs part that there is a...
I wouldn’t be surprised if MLS/PRO isn’t paying these guys a premium just to get warm bodies on the field. I imagine Pinkerton paid well, too.
the Geiger one? I’m not sure that’s a letter you write if things are going your way. These are things you don’t explain. It was whiny.
What will force ownership’s hand will be transitioning the replacements into full timers. Guys aren’t in the league for a reason… ability or the...
The alternative is that they don’t want to be associated with the replacements.
There is a visa waiver program that allows for stays up to 90 days for tourism or business purposes…...
I’m wondering about the politics of the owners here. There seems to be a group of the MLS ownership that are more willing to increase the player...
When game 1 is the conference final, and game 2 could be MLS Cup, any further games are irrelevant. Who cares whether a player is suspended for...
I think PSRA made their point. Why post to Twitter if they felt the original league punishment was going to be sufficient? The league’s hand was...