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A pat on the back for another referee (or two)

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Read this if you haven’t done so already – it is my take on the shirt pulling debate. If you can’t be bothered, my basic tenet is that to cut out widespread cheating you have to clamp down on the little things, and refs who penalise minor examples of offences are right to do so. [...]

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Put a Donk on it – The shirt pulling debate

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Ryan Donk gave away a second penalty in a week on Saturday, tugging Jason Roberts’ shirt in the box (see the link in the previous post for highlights). This reignited a debate that I feel quite passionate about. It was a minor tug – it didn’t stop Roberts or cost him momentum, and most referees [...]

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