Tag results for "referees"
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Should refs call players by name?
The ref is the ultimate neutral and it looks very bad if ...
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What They're Saying: Joanna Stimpson
"It's not defendable. He should have been more prepared, he should have ...
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Anger is the new normal, but there's no excuse for abuse
While refereeing a youth game this past weekend I sent a player ...
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Glaring errors in the VAR-less EPL prove the value of video referee
That goals are such a rare commodity in soccer is arguably one ...
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Become a ref! It's fun, really
I was going to take Sunday off. But the emails kept piling ...
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Substitution and beyond
The Laws of the Game allow three types of substitution. In American ...
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Ending ref abuse starts with the coaches
Years ago, in my area, a coach screamed so much at the ...
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VAR: The World Cup, and beyond
Since the performance of the VAR system was so good at the ...
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England: 'We talk about diving all the time ...'
Reading the English press, listening to the British commentators, it's quite impossible ...
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The lectures that referees give to players: Meaningless? Embarrassing? Childish? Farcical? Probably all of the above
I have been trying for quite a few years now to persuade ...
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D.C. United vs. Orlando -- and a glaring VAR failure that MLS needs to explain
If referees are reluctant to penalize goalkeepers (obviously, they are), now we ...
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The challenges referees face while coping with injuries
This past May, I was refereeing a Long Island Junior Soccer League ...
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Watch: Referee in Peru create his own VAR
A Copa Peru referee consults a sideline photographer to confirm that Jordan ...
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What They're Saying: Shaun Harvey
"This is not about creating a drama. It is about making sure ...
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Soccer's way with words -- and the 'performing' of the national anthem
So George Orwell was right? Words, it seems, are losing their mean ...
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SA Roundup: Various views on VAR and reffing at the 2018 World Cup
The 21st men's World Cup for the first time used video replay ...
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World Cup 2018 Part 2: The VAR Revolution
How about VAR -- a revolutionary development in refereeing -- how did ...
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Why World Cup VAR was sorely needed and how it succeeded
Here's how World Cup soccer used to work: 1 billion people get ...
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World Cup: 99.3 Percent Perfection
This was the only World Cup in my personal history that was ...
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How do referees improve?
For me, there are five ways that refs can improve and I ...
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VAR totally fails to seize its chance for glory
If ever there was a tricky soccer situation that was waiting to ...
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Colombia's miracle escape from soccer's red-card ejection rule
A good deal of attention has been focused on the functioning of ...
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A Ref's View: Parents say the strangest things
The innocence of those other U-9 games were completely lost in this ...
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What They're Saying: Carlos Queiroz
"If you implement VAR, then to make mistakes is not human. To ...
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Reffing at the younger ages: Kids say the darndest things
In these games, the ref can be more of a teacher than ...
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The footprints of Collina
Although it might be a bit premature to say it, but the ...
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What They're Saying: Carlos Queiroz
"If we had it six months later, maybe today we had an ...
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FIFA backs Mark Geiger, accused of asking for player jersey
The American referee was accused by a Moroccan player of asking for ...
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Brazil's Tite bemoans no-VAR call on tying Swiss goal
Every World Cup game has deciding moments that could have gone one ...
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VAR and the insidious spread of technology
There are problems with the VAR system that FIFA has decided to ...
