I was at a Top Level Club game in Ch-Ch and ref assessor from Mainland Football was next to me leaning on the fence marking the guy reffing the game, I yelled out at the ref after a defender pulled an attackers arm in the box making him stumble and unable to take a shot. It looked like a pen to me.
He made some comment about it's a tough job etc, but I got talking to him and he said he didn't think it was a pen as a referee has to uphold a higher standard in the box. I said I'd never heard that before and that surely a foul is a foul no matter where it is, but he told me that wasn't the case.
There are some refs on here - is that really the situation?
He made some comment about it's a tough job etc, but I got talking to him and he said he didn't think it was a pen as a referee has to uphold a higher standard in the box. I said I'd never heard that before and that surely a foul is a foul no matter where it is, but he told me that wasn't the case.
There are some refs on here - is that really the situation?