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Must do better? Yes, afraid so. Easy as it is to cast aspersions on former colleagues from the ivory tower of retirement, referees’ accuracy in the Premier League has dipped this season and a strong ...

All fans want is a bit of consistency. Of course, when that consistency comes at a cost for your team, it’s never nice. But when it comes to refereeing decisions, the introduction of VAR was meant to ...

The problem appears intractable. Referees seem to have retreated to the safe ground of consistency: give none of them and let VAR pick up the pieces. I’ve been there, done that, principally because ...