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The Goon Thread

So Chris Kavanagh is an "elite" referee. He watches Cole Palmer commit violent conduct towards Fernandez and hasn't got the bollox to issue the red card. He can use VAR, head over to the screen and get a proper second look at it, and upgrade his yellow to a red. Not that was really needed but he allows Palmer to carry on with just a yellow. Then rinse and repeat happens a few mins later where VAR doesn't get the on pitch ref to review a second incident where it is also a red card offence.

Michael Salisbury, also an elite referee sees an incident where a full blooded tackle was made and Dowman reacts by doing pretty much the same thing as Palmer did. To be fair, I can see why the kid might have got it wrong and over-reacted in the heat of the moment. However, the ref working without VAR has no hesitation and pulls out the red card for violent conduct. He gets it spot on.

How can 2 of PGMOL's officials work on the same team and operate so differently? Clearly, the PGMOL team had their weekly meeting and there was absolutely no doubt the next time it happened that the outcome would be different.
 
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