georgipep
Full Member
I really hoped that refs will start tackling tactical fouling but it seems neither the on field ref nor the VAR are looking into it at all.They just fouled and fouled and fouled every time we got the ball. 18 times the ref blew for a foul that they had committed. They were lucky not to lose a player if the ref had managed to keep score of all the people he'd booked. It was so blatant, every time Bruno or Rashford got the ball they were flattened. And if we were snide players like PSG are, we could have play acted and got someone sent off but we just took it and carried on. I think tactical fouling is cowardly and underhand. I wouldn't want to watch our players just tripping, pushing, pulling anyone who has the ball. The stop start nature of the game is pretty dull and repetitive.
In an ideal world I would like VAR to review when the on field ref gives a yellow for diving and also to track how many fouls each player has committed and tell that to the ref.