Matt Varnish
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Kavanagh gave it on the Assistants say so, he didn't actually see the offence.The audio makes me think that the var system is actually worse than I thought. What a mess - a giddy linesman shrieking the same way a fan would, a ref who couldnt see anything giving a red, even though a yellow would still be checked by VAR, and a var team who quite clearly dont think its a red but, what....dont really like bruno fernandes? Its probably the worst audio clip so far - a complete mess without structure or process.
The linesman should obviously be stood down, but Kavanagh should never ever give a red for something he cant see. He knows it will be checked.
Before the days of headsets, the assistant would have flagged, and the Ref would have sopken to him and then awarded the red, (or yellow) I've actually been an assistant and done that exact thing thing.
( A player called me an effing cnut) I flagged, the Ref came over, I told him what happened and the player walked for foul and abusive language.
We don't see this happening anymore, it may be the case where in situations like this that the Ref actually goes over to the assistant, personally I think the officials on the field are relying too much on VAR, and are afraid of being overruled.