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When it comes to the effectiveness of VAR, it pays to look at how it works with which VAR official. For instance, the games in which Danny Makalele (NED) or Felix Zwayer (GER) have been the officials, the calls and interventions have been bang on. But officials like Clement Turpin (FRA) seem to...

Quite correct. The fact that the VAR called for a red card review meant that, in the opinion of the VAR, this was a clear and obvious missing of what was considered a red card offence. How the referee can then decide to produce only a yellow means that he does not understand how VAR functions or...

The Paraguayan referee has been slated by one of Wolves' forum's "favourite" referees, https://theref.online/. This is one time I agree with Mark Halsey. Maybe he's a better assessor than an actual referee.

Thank you all for your comments. They have been very informative. My point had nothing to do with Karius' abject performance, nor Klopp's managerial prowess or lack thereof. It was merely a need for a clarification of when the ball is in play. If the ball is in play once it leaves the goalie's...

In today's Champions League Final, I counted about five serious errors made by the referee. He failed to see the elbow that Sergio Ramos delivered to Karius' head in the first half (when Karius went flying back into the net at a Real Madrid corner) and he missed the blatant pulling down of Salah...

Rennie was a lousy showman and an awful referee! I can say that now we are both retired.

I wouldn't have said this a few weeks ago but I now think Derby will win out against Fulham and then beat the winner of Boro v Villa.

Just voted again for Dan's OW.

Just nominated OW (a.k.a. Dan).

I tend to agree but I would place the late Peter Broadbent slightly above knocker Knowles. Different era, I know, but Broadbent's ability to control a game is so similar to Neves; and I have to say that the more I watch Neves with his smooth movement, brilliant sense of where he is, and...

I'll second that!

I want to be very clear that my contention with Attwell had nothing to do with his handing out two yellow cards for the same incident. That is quite legitimate according to the laws of football. My contention is that it was inconsistent with the decision he had made less than a minute earlier on...

As a fan, you can overlook inconsistency; as an assessor, you cannot. End of story.

Not in the context of the game as it had unfolded up to the Costa breakaway. There were worse fouls in the first half from both teams but the referee had chosen to talk to players and keep his cards in his pocket. You can argue that this was an error on his part but once he has set the tone, he...

I was fortunate to watch this match on live streaming and admire how well Wolves played under extreme adversity. I congratulate them on a superb victory. I'll let others comment on player performance. I want to comment on the unfortunate intrusion into the game of a non-player. As a former...

Huddersfield, Stoke, and West Brom get relegated. Southampton will pull out, as Swansea has done, and I think West Ham will as well.

Even though I rarely these days disagree with Deutsch (he's got so much wiser over the years, even though he's younger than my four children!), I agree with you Wilf Wolf and have just voted for the first time for Rueben Neves. He has been simply and consistently brilliant!

I think you'll find that it's Andrew Madley, his brother—a much better referee.

Thank you, Frank, for a most constructive piece that I hope all referees, managers, players, and the FA take serious note of. I'm largely out of the action now, having retired from being a referee and an assessor but I do watch the following online program...

Much as I appreciate how indispensable Barry Douglas's set pieces were to the eventual outcome of the game (that first free kick that hit the post could so easily have gone in), I nevertheless give MOTM to Caveliero because he changed the game when he came on. Costa and, to a lesser extent...