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       #Post#: 41123--------------------------------------------------
       Re: J MOSS - Man City v Wolves
   DIR By: Conkernut
       Date: December 13, 2021, 4:39 am
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       The AR showed absolutely no interest in it whatsoever.
       Unfortunately Jon Moss has a history of guessing decisions. He
       as good as admitted to doing it in a Liverpool - Spurs game
       about 5 years ago
       #Post#: 41127--------------------------------------------------
       Re: J MOSS - Man City v Wolves
   DIR By: Affy_Moose
       Date: December 13, 2021, 6:00 am
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       --- Quote from: Conkernut link ---
       >
       >
       > The AR showed absolutely no interest in it whatsoever.
       Unfortunately Jon Moss has a history of guessing decisions. He
       as good as admitted to doing it in a Liverpool - Spurs game
       about 5 years ago
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       With respect, none us could possibly know if the AR had any
       input or not.  Given the location, however, I would fully have
       expected the AR to have verbal input, and it would likely have
       been "handball".
       ARs are instructed never to flag for penalties.  Rather, they'll
       provide verbal input and the referee will decide if he agrees or
       not.
       From the angles I have seen, that's a penalty if it touches the
       arm, which is certainly appears to do.  The AR would be expected
       to have an input, and VAR is not going to over-rule as it's far
       from a clear and obvious error.
       Moss doesn't need to see it to award a penalty.
       #Post#: 41128--------------------------------------------------
       Re: J MOSS - Man City v Wolves
   DIR By: Whistleblower
       Date: December 13, 2021, 6:28 am
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       --- Quote from: Ivanhoe link ---
       >
       > Re Hackett - Yes, yes but the trouble is, if the likes of
       Hackett don't highlight this sort of situation then it quickly
       gets brushed under the carpet.
       > If we are going to get VAR properly accepted then it has to
       correct wrong decisions or it is going to continue to be
       ridiculed. VAR should work well if the operators use it
       correctly.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Fair point but the golden rule of calling witnesses to advance
       one's case is always choose good and reliable witnesses.
       Hackett, a vastly over-promoted referee and now a pundit with a
       vastly over-inflated view of his own credibility is, in my book
       at any rate, an extremely unreliable witness.
       #Post#: 41129--------------------------------------------------
       Re: J MOSS - Man City v Wolves
   DIR By: Affy_Moose
       Date: December 13, 2021, 6:41 am
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       --- Quote from: Whistleblower link ---
       >
       > [quote author=Ivanhoe link=topic=3160.msg41110#msg41110
       date=1639347124]
       > Re Hackett - Yes, yes but the trouble is, if the likes of
       Hackett don't highlight this sort of situation then it quickly
       gets brushed under the carpet.
       > If we are going to get VAR properly accepted then it has to
       correct wrong decisions or it is going to continue to be
       ridiculed. VAR should work well if the operators use it
       correctly.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Fair point but the golden rule of calling witnesses to advance
       one's case is always choose good and reliable witnesses.
       Hackett, a vastly over-promoted referee and now a pundit with a
       vastly over-inflated view of his own credibility is, in my book
       at any rate, an extremely unreliable witness.
       [/quote]
       My experiences of former officials on TV and newspapers - to
       date - is that they have a very disappointing, and now
       predictable, failure to keep abreast of changes to the LotG.
       There have been some lamentable instances of them not only
       failing to know the basic wording of Law 12, but not knowing
       fairly significant new changes.
       If Dale Johnson of ESPN can learn the intricacies of Law,
       despite not being a referee, it's not unreasonable to expect
       former top flight officials to keep a track of Law changes.
       #Post#: 41131--------------------------------------------------
       Re: J MOSS - Man City v Wolves
   DIR By: Microscopist
       Date: December 13, 2021, 7:01 am
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       Mr Moss didn't put a foot wrong - for 115 seconds, then things
       went downhill.  On 116 seconds it seems to me that he failed to
       award a penalty to City and a Red card to Saiss for wrestling
       Sterling to the ground as he was about to shoot.
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       A delightful pass from Cancello allows Sterling to play the ball
       just inside the penalty area and get ahead of Saiss, Sterling
       tries to stay on his feet under the challenge from behind by
       Saiss and just as he is about to shoot is pushed to the ground.
       To me rather more of a penalty than the clip I have seen for
       United against Norwich.  Perhaps it was because the red card
       would have to have followed that the penalty wasn't awarded so
       early in the game.  It would however have had a much greater
       impact on the game than the later red card and the dubious
       penalty given later.
       On 6 m 23 s  Grealish got away from Dendoncker and was brought
       down from behind - free kick awarded - could easily have been a
       yellow card but seemed to me that these two decisions set a
       rather high threshold for red and yellow cards - compared with
       later decisions.
       In the 11th minute Traore charges into Cancello, nothing given a
       minute later Cancello returns the complement on Traore, again
       nothing given.
       Also in the 12th minute Sterling is again wrestled to the ground
       right in front of the AR.
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       Result throw in to Wolves.
       Then in the 18th minute a reasonable penalty sgout as Jesus gets
       between the defender and the ball and is kicked on the leg for
       his troubles.  I have mixed feelings about this one: Jesus has
       put himself in a position to attract the foul.  However these
       are regularly given - the award to Salah seems the same sort of
       situation, Mt Oliver gave two penalties to Leicester last season
       where Vardy did the same, Calcello received a red card when
       Wellbeck did much the same against Brighton last season and so
       on. Shortly after Cancello fouls Traore and should probably be a
       yellow card - nothing given.
       Diaz then makes a similar challenge on Traore as the one on
       Sterling earlier, wrestling him to the ground and receives a
       yellow card - in isolation this is an OK decision but in the
       context of previous decisions it is pretty inconsistant.  The
       inconsistency continues when Rodri makes a similar challenge to
       the earlier one on Grealish and receives a yellow card.  So when
       Jiménez tries to pull back Rodri by the arm and then tries to
       trip him a yellow card follows and as he tries to block the free
       kick the inevitable second yellow is given.  It certainly seemed
       to me that the criteria for yellow cards had changed from his
       earlier decisions.
       And so it went on, and we have a handball against Jesus where so
       far as I can tell the ball is nowhere near his arm but hits the
       chest and shoulder.
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       Finally in the 7th minute of added time to the first half City
       have another, to me credible, penalty claim.  When a Grealish
       cross, which had a good chance of reaching Sterling  or Bernado
       on the edge of the six yard box. is blocked by the arm of Kilman
       and deflected back to the keeper.  Kilman's arm is reasonably at
       his side but he does move himself (including his arm) about a
       yard into the path of the ball and it hits him between the elbow
       and the bottom of his sleeve, he appears to pull his arm behind
       his back after the ball has hit it.  So in my view this should
       have been a penalty although I don't think the one in the second
       half actually hit the arm but deflected downwards from the chest
       and armpit.
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       The second half continued in the same vein of inconsistency but
       I think there is enough here to say both on the balance of play
       and on the balance of refereeing decisions City were not
       particularly fortunate to achieve a win.
       #Post#: 41142--------------------------------------------------
       Re: J MOSS - Man City v Wolves
   DIR By: Whistleblower
       Date: December 13, 2021, 10:24 am
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       Jon Moss would make a very worthy contribution to L1 and L2
       football and at a pinch, acquit himself reasonably in the SG2
       Group; certainly better than some of that number which I do
       realise is damning with faint praise. What he is doing in the
       SG1 and regularly receiving top of the table matches has always
       been one of football refereeing's more impenetrable mysteries to
       me.
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