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Man Utd fans sticking it up to the Glazers I see

I don’t think having two refs on the field should be controversial though. The refs are unprotected as is with one person having a lot of autonomy. I know it’s a different sport with a smaller area of play but take a look at the NFL. There are 7 officials on the field. Whenever they call a flag or foul there isn’t crowding of the refs by players. Additionally they all come together to make the call and announce it on the PA system. Am I asking that for football? No but having more officials so that they can discuss cards in addition to VAR will give refs more tools to do their job right. My heavily depreciated 0.02¢

I don’t think having two refs on the field should be controversial though. The refs are unprotected as is with one person having a lot of autonomy. I know it’s a different sport with a smaller area of play but take a look at the NFL. There are 7 officials on the field. Whenever they call a flag or foul there isn’t crowding of the refs by players. Additionally they all come together to make the call and announce it on the PA system. Am I asking that for football? No but having more officials so that they can discuss cards in addition to VAR will give refs more tools to do their job right. My heavily depreciated 0.02¢

I think Xavi is overestimating the squad that Barca has considering how many of them he’s signed.

Yes because I would’ve mentioned Nedved without having seen him play /s

Pavel Nedved 2003 and Shevchenko 2004. Both should have gone to Henry.

5 - Manchester United (ENG): 73.488 ≈ 99%

Yeah…that’ll show the Glazers…we’ll show you we want you out by lining up your pockets to show you we want you out…

Hot take here: in addition to VAR and the above measures, having more officials. Taking this from the NFL where officiating is not the best but there is no crowding of the refs and the officials are looking at plays not involving the ball. This includes:

1. having both linesmen on both halves

2. having officials along the goal line to detect fouls/hand balls in the box and specifically to see who the call came off of so that the correct call of goal kick or corner kick is more likely to be correct

3. Possibly having a ref for one half of the field and one in the other half of the field in addition to the main ref for the entire pitch. That way if they see something off the ball they can alert the ref (VARs job I know but the whole Bruno Guimaraes elbowing Jorginho in the back of the head was also supposed to be caught).

Yes this might seem crowded but there are more eyes to spot off the ball incidents and seeing who the ball comes out of play off of.