I hope he keeps doing that. He seems to wanna emulate Mourinho on this aspect, but I don't think he has those credentials yet to back him like Mourinho used to. Let's see how long his players will play for him.Frank throwing his players under the bus and calling them out...but it's gonna be ignored unlike if another manager did that...
I haven't seen the replay, but for clarity, natural position is hands close to your chest, that's it. In theory there is minimal interpretation in these rules.
This was created to give clarity to VAR regarding hand balls (which is why I hate the argument that 'the problem isn't VAR it's the handball rule' as if they were not inherently linked). Right now people are trying to take subjectivity out of the game and to be easier managed by VAR. Not only are they failing at that, but the game is and always will be inherently subjective, and that's why people continuously argue about these decisions all the time. The most important thing is consistency, strong consistency within the match itself and a looser consistency amongst all referees. It's okay for refs to have their own style, it makes the game interesting a varied, VAR is trying to make football more objective and this is not for the benefit of the game but as an attempt to protect referees.
how the feck did United get a pen in the 100th minute?
how the feck did United get a pen in the 100th minute?
I haven't seen the replay, but for clarity, natural position is hands close to your chest, that's it. In theory there is minimal interpretation in these rules.
This was created to give clarity to VAR regarding hand balls (which is why I hate the argument that 'the problem isn't VAR it's the handball rule' as if they were not inherently linked). Right now people are trying to take subjectivity out of the game and to be easier managed by VAR. Not only are they failing at that, but the game is and always will be inherently subjective, and that's why people continuously argue about these decisions all the time. The most important thing is consistency, strong consistency within the match itself and a looser consistency amongst all referees. It's okay for refs to have their own style, it makes the game interesting a varied, VAR is trying to make football more objective and this is not for the benefit of the game but as an attempt to protect referees.
McNeil and Lennon who has just left the club both have one black parent but really the town of Burnley is 92% white (with the rest mostly South Asian and Bangladeshi for whom football usually isn't a priority) and most other towns up there are similar so the catchment area for the youth academy is almost exclusively white. It is a bit surprising that Dyche hasn't signed any black players from other clubs or abroad apart from Lennon, I'll give you that.I still think it’s really bizarre the lack of black footballers at Burnley. Know Bent said something about it last season which made McNeil upset, but just looking at their First XI on their website, it’s pretty jarring.
McNeil and Lennon who has just left the club both have one black parent but really the town of Burnley is 92% white (with the rest mostly South Asian and Bangladeshi for whom football usually isn't a priority) and most other towns up there are similar so the catchment area for the youth academy is almost exclusively white. It is a bit surprising that Dyche hasn't signed any black players from other clubs or abroad apart from Lennon, I'll give you that.
The quality of reffing is diabolical at the moment. Why the fuck did the ref blow up for Wood's goal?
I'll take your word for it, their academy isn't listed anywhere on the club website.However at least 1/3rd of their youth academy is black.
I'll take your word for it, their academy isn't listed anywhere on the club website.
Mate, the IFAB law had very little to do with the PL, and the handball law has changed football well beyond the PL. In Serie A the rule has been incredibly controversial, and even domestic referees are not exactly happy with the rule change. With the director of referees in Italy calling it a 'problem'.Sorry. But that is rubbish.
The handball law has changed because Premier League has not been following the laws as they were written, but instead were adopting a very loose interpretation of them for years, so now IFAB changed them so Premier League have nowhere to go, and have to come in line with the rest of the world. Nothing more, if we had been more stricter with our interpretation in previous seasons, they wouldn't have changed. The only people to blame are the Premier League Clubs, they were the ones that have always asked for the previous interpretation, and because there was enough wiggle room in the laws, our referees were able to referee as the clubs wished rather as the lawmakers intended them to in respect of handball. That loophole has been shut, and now they have given no margin at all for subjectivity. If we had adopted previous laws as intended IFAB would not have changed them, and made them totally black or white.
It is nothing about protecting referees, I cannot even fathom out how you have come to that conclusion.
No need to be rude, I'm not an idiot mate.Because he was offside, and linesman had correctly put his flag up and had it up for a while.
And I actually think the standard of refereeing has been far from diabolical, but to a very high level so far this season.
It is actually supporters and commentators lack of understanding of the laws that has been diabolical.
Some of the comments makes it feel like builders critiquing brain surgeons techniques