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Think Andrews might have been booked for complaining about this one too.
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Maybe he was doing a Kevin Lynch of correcting an incorrect corner decision
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At least then have the common sense not to book our player for questioning his mistakes.
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Different incident now, but yes, from what i saw he was a shambles. My Czech commentator kept calling him Peter Bankes, not sure who that should insult more
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Bankes was VAR so maybe had his notes muddled.Different incident now, but yes, from what i saw he was a shambles. My Czech commentator kept calling him Peter Bankes, not sure who that should insult more
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Ah yes, sorry.Different incident now, but yes, from what i saw he was a shambles. My Czech commentator kept calling him Peter Bankes, not sure who that should insult more
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Gave 2 penalities and a red card in the Sunderland 0-2 Arsenal game he reffed earlier this season, including for Ezri Konsa pulling down Dan Ballard at a croner. The one where Raya saved Enzo le Fee's penalty and Arsenal went down the other end and scored through Bruno Guimaraes.
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Brentford v Liverpool
Referee: John Brooks.
Assistants: Neil Davies, Akil Howson.
Fourth official: Anthony Backhouse.
VAR:Darren England.
Assistant VAR: Gary Beswick.
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John Brooks is ok if the opposition isn’t the Big 6. But we’re playing Liverpool so it’s a massive problem.
Brooks was the referee for the home match against Arsenal last season. The failure to send off Gabriel and booking Dango for dissent after letting Madueke scream ‘f*** off’ at him. Brooks was the referee for Chelsea away last season where he ignored the most blatant holding by Chelsea and denied us at least one stonewall penalty. Brooks was the VAR for Newcastle away and failed to recommend a review when Trippier dragged down KLP. That should have been a penalty and DOGSO red. These are all signs of things to come this weekend.
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Dale Johnson: damning from Howard Webb's mouthpiece in the last sentence, throwing Bramall under the bus:
If Struijk had been sent off by referee Bramall it would have been a poor decision. That it came via a VAR intervention is much worse.
Red cards for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity via video review are rare, simply because there are so many subjective considerations. Last season, for instance, there were three - for Dominik Szoboszlai, Maxence Lacroix and Marcos Senesi (though this was wrongly rejected at the monitor).
There was far too much doubt that Isidor would get to the ball before Bart Verbruggen. That means it was a possible goalscoring opportunity rather than obvious. With such a high bar on VAR in the Premier League, Bramall should not have been sent to the monitor.
Perhaps when sent to the screen, his judgement was clouded because he did not give a foul. But it was the kind of situation where the referee should be rejecting the advice of the VAR.
View: https://x.com/DaleJohnsonBBC/status/2110301640397897868
If Struijk had been sent off by referee Bramall it would have been a poor decision. That it came via a VAR intervention is much worse.
Red cards for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity via video review are rare, simply because there are so many subjective considerations. Last season, for instance, there were three - for Dominik Szoboszlai, Maxence Lacroix and Marcos Senesi (though this was wrongly rejected at the monitor).
There was far too much doubt that Isidor would get to the ball before Bart Verbruggen. That means it was a possible goalscoring opportunity rather than obvious. With such a high bar on VAR in the Premier League, Bramall should not have been sent to the monitor.
Perhaps when sent to the screen, his judgement was clouded because he did not give a foul. But it was the kind of situation where the referee should be rejecting the advice of the VAR.
View: https://x.com/DaleJohnsonBBC/status/2110301640397897868
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You silly sausage, you're thinking of samosas. He said samoa - pacific island, good at rugby
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Oh good , Always reminds me of Stan Laurel , has that total confused look on his face
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He had a reasonable match in charge of Coventry v Newcastle on Monday. Whilst my expectations are extremely low I live in hope that this is the start of a run of competence!
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Oh the joys of predictive text especially when it actually ends up funnyYou silly sausage, you're thinking of samosas. He said samoa - pacific island, good at rugby
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Indeed. I have to remember mine insists on ‘newt’ when I want to write ‘next’.
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Does anyone think this is what an elite level refereeing performance looks like?
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Mystic Meg over here.
Brooks so far this afternoon
View: https://youtu.be/61ek0oMKREQ?is=QKWRvSmX41XR61Pn
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Wasn't there today so I have only seen twitter clips of the headbutt, but John Brooks as VAR didn't think Gabriel on Haaland was worthy of a red last year...
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Just remember - Brooks just booked Schade when he didnt see anything, just because their player rolled around and their sub ran on screaming at him.
Yet didnt book the sub for illegally entering the pitch.....
Yet didnt book the sub for illegally entering the pitch.....
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Slight difference being he was never sent to the screen to review it.
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Oh was it??
He should still have been booked, but goes to show how badly Munoz cheated if a player feels the need to run on and contest it.
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No, he was VAR so he had the screen to view it as many times as he wanted, and still decided it wasn't a red.
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slight difference being he WAS the VAR......
He was the one that deemed it with numerous replays to say no, it was not a headbutt.
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Set the tone by ignoring the blatant push on Anthony and Liverpool 33 (?) kicking the ball away to delay a restart (clear Yellow) within the first 5 minutes.
Went downhill badly front there.
Wish we'd had that bloke McGinn who reffed our game last week instead if I'm honest.
Went downhill badly front there.
Wish we'd had that bloke McGinn who reffed our game last week instead if I'm honest.
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It would have been.. but Brooks felt this was NOT worthy of a check (therefore a red) when the only angle he was shown was behind the goal where no head action was 100% evident (if he'd been shown the other angle it might be different as it was head on chin).
But today he had a look at a screen and deemed that to be worthy of red.
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I guess Haland didn't go down like a sack of sh*te like Jacket did though
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Jacquet also made sure his head was forward to make any accidental contact look worse
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He was clearly talking to either the Linos or fourth official who advised him
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I dont even think Brooks knows what Brooks is thinking.
Except "ensure the big club wins"
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I do not possess the vocabulary necessary to comment on his
"Performance " this afternoon.
"Performance " this afternoon.
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Some of this afternoon's decision's can be debated. What isn't in question though is one of the worst penalty decisions I've seen.
How did the ref give Liverpool a pen!
It is one benefit of VAR when such a clear error is made. You could clearly see from the stands we won the ball, it wasn't even close to consider a penalty.
We all make mistakes and the ref's performance will have been assessed, my guess is it won't be his best report.
How did the ref give Liverpool a pen!
It is one benefit of VAR when such a clear error is made. You could clearly see from the stands we won the ball, it wasn't even close to consider a penalty.
We all make mistakes and the ref's performance will have been assessed, my guess is it won't be his best report.