All true. But look at the flipside.....the day started with Everton on 27 points, Forest on 26 points, and Luton on 25 points. So it's not like...
It's well-known that Michael Oliver is a Newcastle supporter, and therefore he does not get assigned any Newcastle matches. But I remember it...
So who do you want refereeing the game? The guy on the pitch or the guy in a booth somewhere? You have to have some sort of standard governing...
It's not that I want to encourage the tactic, it's that I don't want to see good goals disallowed by VAR for "technical" reasons that have no...
Yes, but in the case being discussed, the offside player did NOT interfere with the keeper's movement. He just blocked his sight line. And what...
Couldn't you just as easily go in the completely opposite direction and say that trying to obstruct the view of the keeper is a legal and expected...
Thoughts on the decision by VAR that the foul occurred outside the box? The announcers pointed out that the defender's foot was on the line when...
MassRef....you know I'm about as anti-VAR as anyone....I wasn't suggesting that the VAR should have said anything, I was just curious if he did....
I'd be very curious to hear what, if any, conversation occurred between Nyberg and his VAR with regard to this incident.
Agreed. And for me, a lot MORE of these types of challenges should be reds instead of yellows. Casemiero went in late/hard/out of control on Diaz...
The decision by the VAR to disallow Schar's goal for Newcastle against Fulham due to a possible foul on Burn was just as big a moment at the time....
From what I've read, the header was into the corner away from the keeper, and the "obstruction of vision" by the offside player had no impact on...
Thoughts on the VAR decision to disallow Schar's goal for Newcastle against Fulham due to a foul on Dan Burn? Burn leads with a forearm into the...
Especially since the first card he had issued to Gordon was less than 15 minutes earlier....
My answer is that yes, we are pretty deep. But obviously the starters are the starters for a reason, and the backups are backups for a reason. But...
Not sure which one you're referring to, but the second one worked well enough that he fooled the ref into awarding a PK (thankfully overturned by...
Very well said....last night it was obvious that we had more talent on the field than Mexico. It wasn't just the two goals....it was Pulisic...
The task for the next two years is going to be to identify depth, so that our key players don't exhaust themselves in the 2026 Group Stage. The...
The problem is that you can't really "transition quicker" against a bunkering team, because there are no transitions since the other team isn't...
Not sure about that....the YC to Alvarez in 58' should probably have been a straight red for a late, studs-up tackle, and he missed the PK in IRT...
This.... There just aren't that many top-level managers who would take a national team job over a top European club job, because managing a...
I think because people love to see us whomping CONCACAF minnows by huge margins, the underestimate/dismiss the fact that Berhalter has made us...
Stop insulting newborn kittens! We've held Mexico scoreless now for 521 consecutive minutes in official matches.....they haven't looked dangerous...
We've held them scoreless for 521 consecutive minutes. And we won't play them again in Mexico until 2028/29 at the earliest, or possibly never...
From a legal standpoint, I'm not sure any of these would pass muster unless they were passed/ratified by CONCACAF and in place before any match...