2020-2021 UEFA Referee Discussion [R]

He's looking right at it. It's a red card, but you can plausibly justify a yellow. But nothing? No foul? No card?

I get that UEFA want low key refereeing, but if you're going to go down the route that they seem to be advocating just change the laws of the game to allow a team to replace a red carded player.

 

Must have been a big drop in standards though. Several Welsh and N.Ireland referees have been at previous World Cups!
(Yes I know a prominent FIFA VP was from N. Ireland but...)

PH

 

Please tell me you find this tackle a clear RC. From the Armenia - Estonia game handled by David Coote:

https://streamable.com/6qfful

 

How can it even be a foul? He got ball.

 

Thank you! I completely agree. Decisions like this (if UEFA agrees) set really bad precedent for us at lower levels.

 

Any time I see a player launch himself/herself like this, I'm on red alert (no pun intended). That kind of launch definitely can get into the excessive force part of this pretty quickly.

 

Indeed it is strange to see Brych... He's officiating the Greek cup final couple days before this - so why not if he's in the immediate area.

Kavanagh's youth league final performance must have been well received I guess... He struggled in that game imo; but Rosetti and co. seem encouraged.

 

I agree. For the most part Kavanagh has impressed - which his recent promotion to the 1st category validates.

 

Just a minor point for clarification, this round of UCL qualifiers is still only a single match.

It is only in the next round (Play-Offs) that we revert to the normal 2-leg format.

 

Interesting, I heard rumblings that Brych was getting the assignment. Thanks for the link. In that case disregard my previous theory...no idea why Brych was assigned to this round.

 

Tricky to say how important an observer Pedersen is nowadays - he has been switched out of his post at the NFF for Terje Hauge and Rosetti will trust different men than Collina did, also geographical considerations are important. But surely remarkable nonetheless.

Frappart's performance in Malta - Latvia was quite poor by the way.

 

It's surely not a coincidence that Brych handled this exact game in 2018 and doing a very good job, both teams likely asked for him again. Also PAOK were very dissatisfied with Craig Pawson's handling of their match at this stage with Benfica last year, which probably gave them more bargaining power.

To be honest I simply cannot believe Kavanagh's assignment, to say UEFA are dicing with death is quite the understatement. Of course, he has my best wishes!

 

I’d be interested in her performance. I couldn’t get home in time enough to record her match. And didn’t see any highlight package.

 

Did anyone watch Marseille-PSG yesterday? Sounds like it went completely off the rails, with a mass fight at the end of the game and Neymar alleging racial comments directed at him per the espnfc.com article I read.

 

Yes, it was not a pretty sight.

To be honest, and this is not being "wise after the event", I never felt comfortable the whole game. Now, obviously I didn't expect it to finish with 12 Cautions and 5 Send-Offs, but from very early on it was simmering and seemed to just be just one incident away from a flashpoint.

While there were no particularly significant "issues" as such, Brisard just never seemed in control. The level of dissent that was being tolerated for relatively innocuous things, and the number of times he allowed players to physically chase him demanding PKs, etc was typical of how things were being managed, and were just not what one would expect from a Referee of his experience. I would go so far as to say that if you watched this game without knowledge of the teams or Referee you would think that it was someone who had been promoted maybe a level or two above his "comfort zone". It just seemed too big a game for him, somehow, on this particular night.

All together a very uncomfortable 90+ minutes, and while the players have to take responsibility for the debacle at the end, I do think the seeds were sewn much earlier by a very passive performance by a Referee who should know better.

 

Anthony Taylor assigned the UEFA Super cup.

https://www.uefa.com/uefasupercup/n...0bb08-1000--taylor-to-referee-2020-super-cup/

 

Any idea when the lockdown starts? Presumably UEFA think they can fly him out and back before it commences?

 

Apparently that UEFA page has a typo? Everywhere else it's Grinfeld, not Grinfeeld

Anyway, what a year for Taylor.