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No booking in minute 11 in TOR/CIN is certainly a choice. A very bad choice that makes this job harder for everyone, but a choice nonetheless.
I wonder how much it was a choice to admonish the near VC and forget that it was also one of the worst instances of dissent we’ll see all season. So maybe less of a deliberate choice and more of an inability to process multiple things at once. Neither is good. But an affirmative choice to manage that is real bad.
Haven't followed much this season, but just parsing through the threads it seems like Fierro hasn't exactly lit the world on fire.
Allowing a restart to take place and then blowing it dead to go check on a downed player is probably not the ideal process, either. Resulted in a dissent booking to both the downed player and the opposing coach whose attack was killed, and the player ended up getting a second yellow about a minute later for off the ball nonsense. Just another Saturday in Toronto.
My impression was that he blew the play dead (instead of allowing the throw-in, albeit it was quite a late choice) due to the VAR asking him to delay to check the possible penalty. Checking on the downed player seemed coincidental.