Seen Them Given: Recent Episodes
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Former FIFA Referee and ex-PGMOL boss Keith Hackett joins Mike McCarthy to debate the big decisions of the week and explain what it's really like to officiate the beautiful game.
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This week: why penalty takers can stop during, but not at the end of a run-up, violent conduct goes unpunished, and how should a referee deal with Atletico Madrid?
Running Order:
00:00 Intro
00:49 Penalty run-ups
05:21 Tottenham 0-1 Brighton
14:47 Chelsea 2-0 Crystal Palace
17:08 Manchester City 2-3 Liverpool
24:58 Newcastle 2-1 Leicester
28:46 How to handle Atletico Madrid
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This week: Anthony Taylor helps Manchester City v Liverpool deliver, semi-automated offside can't come soon enough and why has it taken Tony Harrington until mid-April to get a second Premier League appointment?
Running Order;
00:00 Intro
00:43 IFAB tweaks the laws
03:56 Manchester City 2-2 Liverpool
12:48 Norwich 2-0 Burnley
19:17 Arsenal 1-2 Brighton
24:58 Leicester 2-1 Crystal Palace
27:18 Ronaldo, Southampton 1-2 Chelsea, Wayne Rooney
35:30 Tony Harrington gets a second PL game
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This week we look and VAR interventions, or the lack thereof, does it favour 'big' clubs? Plus, how do you deal with laser pens? And there's praise for refereeing performances in the Old Firm Derby and the EFL Trophy Final.
Running Order
00:00 Intro
01:16 Dealing with laser pens
04:20 Rangers 1-2 Celtic
09:42 Manchester United 1-1 Leicester City
14:02 Liverpool 2-0 Watford
18:00 VAR doesn't get involved at Turf Moor, Elland Road and the London Stadium
21:26 Does VAR favour 'big' clubs?
24:54 Tottenham 5-1 Newcastle United
26:43 Preparing referees for the run-in
31:06 Praise for Seb Stockbridge
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This week; Mike Dean bids farewell to the Premier League, is there any room in the game for 50/50 challenges, and with so much time-wasting going on are fans getting value for money?
Running order
00:00 Intro
00:44 Mike Dean retires
14:17 50/50 challenges
20:04 Allan yellow card upgraded to red by VAR
24:23 Praise for Craig Pawson
27:04 Time-wasting and delays
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This week, Newcastle are left seeing red when decisions aren't forthcoming at Stamford Bridge, what does a goalkeeper have to do to get sent off, and what are the rules about stadium replays?
Running Order
00:00 Intro
00:45 Fulham complain about long grass at Oakwell
04:15 Referee development and scouting
13:57 Controversies at Chelsea and Brighton
18:40 Protection for goalkeepers
21:55 Goal-line technology in the WSL
24:54 Stadium replays and stadium announcers
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This week: how much better are professional referees at getting key decisions right, and are managers and coaches getting away with too much in the technical area?
Running Order
00:00 Intro
01:35 Policing the technical area
12:56 A good weekend in the Premier League
15:38 Are professional referees better?
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This week - the t-shirt line becomes all important in helping decide the fate of the League Cup and perhaps the Premier League title too. We get into why and how that happened. Also, what referees in MLS will be clamping down on this season.
Running Order
00:00 Intro
06:18 Everton 0-1 Manchester City
19:41 Chelsea 0-0 Liverpool (Liverpool win EFL Cup 11-10 on penalties)
25:26 Clampdowns in MLS
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This week; persistent fouling, the merits of VAR-lite, the benefits of bodycams, and Southampton are accused of engineering drinks breaks.
Running order;
00:00 Intro
05:00 Persistent fouling
13:07 Concussion
18:28 Gabriel Martinelli and second yellows
23:46 Bodycams
37:05 VAR-lite
46:38 Engineering drinks breaks
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This week; the handball law is applied correctly (but nobody likes it), more pitch invaders spoil matches, does a goalkeepers rushed clearance justify offside, and should football consider awarding penalty goals for handball on the line?
Running Order
00:00 Intro
04:50 Praise
07:27 Accidental Handball (Manchester United 1-1 Middlesbrough)
12:48 Offside and interfering with play (Birmingham City 1-2 Sheffield United)
20:58 Racist abuse leads to players taken off the pitch (Morecambe 1-1 Bolton)
23:45 Pitch invasions
26:17 Penalty goals? (Rotherham 1-0 Accrington Stanley)
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As referees come under attack, how does the game protect them? And who could be next in line to referee in the Premier League?
Running order
00:00 Intro
02:02 Referee hit with missile at Crewe v Rotherham
14:09 Derby County 2-2 Birmingham City
26:09 Huddersfield Town 1-1 Stoke City
28:50 Promoting referees
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This week how a VAR review managed to turn a good decision into a bad one, dangerous challenges and how to define them, and could referees be better positioned at corners?
Running Order;
00:00 Intro
01:38 Pre-match chats
06:06 Crystal Palace 1-3 Liverpool
14:27 Chelsea 2-0 Tottenham
18:40 Southampton 1-1 Manchester City
22:52 Manchester City Women 1-1 Arsenal Women
27:05 Refereeing positions at corners
33:33 Sin-bins
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This week Leeds United feel aggrieved at another offside decision at the London Stadium, there's a collision at Molineux but was it really worth a penalty, and how should referees address the captains before kick-off?
Running Order
00:00 Intro
00:48 West Ham 2-3 Leeds United
08:37 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-1 Southampton
13:35 Brighton 1-1 Crystal Palace
17:39 Pre-match chats with the captains (example)
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This week the FA Cup third round brings some major shocks, interesting edge cases in the offside law, handball controversy and referees getting big calls correct without the help of technology.
Running Order:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Playing advantage for longer
05:21 Offside (Newcastle United 0-1 Cambridge United, West Ham United 2-0 Leeds United)
08:25 VAR and goal-line technology in the FA Cup (Kidderminster Harriers 2-1 Reading)
14:34 Handball (Liverpool 4-1 Shrewsbury Town, Cardiff City 2-1 Preston North End)
17:49 Grappling (Nottingham Forest 1-0 Arsenal, Leicester City 4-1 Watford)
21:39 Bottle throwing
26:42 Rebecca Welch becomes first woman to take charge of a men's FA Cup third-round tie (Birmingham City 0-1 Plymouth Argyle)
29:02 Real Bettis attack refereeing decisions on social media
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As VAR strikes yet more controversy in the Premier League, what can be done to make it better?
Mike McCarthy and Keith Hackett discuss the options with your suggestions live on Twitter.
Highlights
Arsenal 1-2 Manchester City
Chelsea 2-2 Liverpool
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A Premier League weekend is littered with errors, Keith Hackett has his say. Plus, how foggy does it need to be for a game to be called off?
Highlights:
Leeds 1-4 Arsenal
Newcastle 0-4 Manchester City
Wolves 0-0 Chelsea
Tottenham 2-2 Liverpool
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This week, Manchester City are awarded a dubious penalty, we discuss the engineering of contact and Danny Guest tells us about life as an assistant referee.
Running order:
00:00 Intro
01:30 Sam Kerr pushes a pitch invader
03:23 Manchester City 1-0 Wolves
09:34 Chelsea 3-2 Leeds United
10:40 Engineering contact (Burnley 0-0 West Ham, Leicester City 4-0 Newcastle United)
22:52 Danny Guest interview
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This week, a favourite of football pundits, do goalkeepers get too much protection? Plus, should referees in grassroots football be allowed to wear bodycams to help prevent abuse?
Running Order:
00:00 Intro
01:24 What's the hardest sport to referee?
03:52 Tributes to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
07:09 Do goalkeepers get too much protection?
19:43 Praise for Simon Hooper
23:35 Women's FA Cup Final
28:13 Should referee's be allowed to wear bodycams?
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This week; why 1997 saw the most red cards in an English game (twice), the Copa Libertadores produces the worst dive of all time, we review the weekend's Premier League action and find out what it's like refereeing in the snow.
Running Order
00:00 Intro
00:50 Referee has to stop game to move his car
04:30 Refereeing in the snow (Manchester City 2-1 West Ham, Leicester City 4-2 Watford)
13:38 Chelsea 1-1 Manchester United
17:04 Brentford 1-0 Everton
18:29 Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle United
20:43 The best/worst dive of all time
21:55 Match abandoned with too few players / most red cards
26:22 Crystal Palace 1-2 Aston Villa
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This week: How should you judge offsides when you don't have any assistants? How should you handle players going into the crowd? Did Simon Hooper miss an easy red card at Turf Moor? When should a penalty be retaken? And what's it like to referee in Europe?
Running Order
00:00 Intro
03:22 Offside in grassroots football
10:51 Funso Ojo is pushed by a fan, Dimitri Payet hit by a bottle
16:08 A clear red card at Turf Moor?
20:26 A retaken penalty between Watford and Manchester United
23:10 Arteta and Klopp altercation, policing the technical area
26:45 What's it like refereeing in Europe?
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He reports on football for a living, but how well does Mike McCarthy know the laws of the game? Keith Hackett puts him to the test.
Also this week we're joined by Simon Hall, Secretary of the Steel City Referee Association, to discuss refereeing in the women's game and some of the first things grassroots referees need to learn.
Running Order;
00:00 Intro
00:58 Advantage and penalty kicks
05:48 Playing advantage at grassroots level
12:15 Refereeing development in the women's game
29:07 Laws of the game quiz
43:24 The cost of becoming a referee, and referee training
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This week
- why 'getting the ball' won't save a player who makes a poor challenge
- Can referee's enforce unwritten laws?
- 'Lazy' refereeing in the Premier League
- Why don't clubs seek the advice of former officials?
Running Order;
00:00 Intro
00:47 'Getting the ball' (West Ham 3-2 Liverpool, Everton 0-0 Tottenham)
08:10 Unwritten rules (Arsenal 1-0 Watford)
11:08 'Lazy' refereeing (Brighton 1-1 Newcastle, Crystal Palace 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers)
21:22 Praise for Jarred Gillet (Brentford 1-2 Norwich)
24:35 Upper body fouls
31:08 Clubs and referees
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This week three Premier League matches produce three different outcomes when referees are asked to decide if there has been a denial of an obvious goal-scoring opportunity (DOGSO). One has too many red cards, one has too few, and one was just right.
Also this week, what happened in League Two when a referee forgot to add on stoppage time at the end of the first half, and how much can we read into the number of red and yellow cards handed to each Premier League side?
Running Order
00:00 Intro
00:43 Leyton Orient 5-0 Hartlepool United
07:53 Aston Villa 1-4 West Ham United
17:08 Leicester City 0-2 Arsenal
19:34 Manchester City 0-2 Crystal Palace
24:11 Good weekend in the Premier League for officials?
27:00 Fulham 3-0 West Bromwich Albion
30:20 Card counting in the Premier League
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This week a referee gets the law wrong, forcing a match in the USA to be partially replayed. We discuss why Paul Pogba was sent-off, but Ronaldo survived as Manchester United were hammered by Liverpool, plus the rest of the weekend's big incidents in the Premier League, and an official in the National League catches Keith Hackett's eye.
Running Order;
00:00 Intro
01:00 Miami FC v Pittsburgh Riverhounds
06:24 Manchester United 0-5 Liverpool
14:39 Leeds United 1-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
15:48 Brighton & Hove Albion 1-4 Manchester City
19:02 Crystal Palace 1-1 Newcastle United
22:38 Chelsea 7-0 Norwich City
24:49 Arsenal 3-1 Aston Villa
26:45 West Ham 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur
28:56 Sunderland 0-1 Charlton
31:12 Chesterfield 2-1 Boreham Wood
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This week; a match is abandoned when a player/manager refuses to leave the pitch, Craig Pawson plays advantage to perfection, the offside law comes into question, and why you have to be ready to make a big call early in a big game.
Running Order;
00:00 Intro
02:21 What to do when a player is sent off but refuses to leave the pitch
06:34 A medical emergency at St James' Park
10:16 Playing advantage (Leicester City 4-2 Manchester United)
21:57 Re-writing the offside law (Watford 0-5 Liverpool)
28:48 Making a big decision early (Swansea 3-0 Cardiff City)
35:14 Goalkeeper attacks teammate
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With reports of referee numbers down from 15-40% Simon Hall, Secretary of the Steel City Referee Association, joins Mike McCarthy and Keith Hackett to discuss the referee shortage.
Also this week; a team of female officials oversee England's World Cup Qualifier in Andorra, Northern Ireland's Jamal Lewis sees red after taking too long over a throw-in, and when is a high boot not a high boot? We discuss Scotland's crucial 3-2 victory over Israel.
Running order;
00:00 Intro
02:10 Andorra 0-5 England
11:44 Switzerland 2-0 Northern Ireland
17:27 Scotland 3-2 Israel
21:23 The Referee Shortage
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This week; how far back in the build-up can VAR go for a check, what can goalkeepers get away with, and just how bad does a pitch have to get before a referee can call the game off?
Running Order
00:00 Intro
01:39 Kit clashes and teams of officials
09:42 Liverpool v Manchester City
14:01 Chelsea v Southampton
19:45 Burnley v Norwich
24:46 Leeds United v Watford
28:00 Praise for Michael Oliver and Anthony Taylor
32:08 Portsmouth v Sunderland
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A weekend where VAR goes back in its box with (near perfect) results, new face Jarred Gillett impressed on his Premier League debut and Keith Hackett provides some advice on how to deal with teams attempting to run down the clock.
This week's games;
Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham
Chelsea 0-1 Manchester City (Rudiger challenge)
Manchester United 0-1 Aston Villa
Everton 2-0 Norwich
Leeds United 1-2 West Ham United
Leicester City 2-2 Burnley
Southampton 0-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Watford 1-1 Newcastle United
Brentford 3-3 Liverpool
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A poor weekend in the Premier League. We discuss who can feel hard done by and why.
Plus, why don't stadium clocks go beyond 90 minutes? And is there a way to stop players stealing yards at throw-ins?
Running Order
00:00 Intro
01:21 Manchester City v Southampton
06:25 West Ham United v Manchester United
10:32 Brighton & Hove Albion v Leicester City
14:04 Liverpool v Crystal Palace
18:03 Why stadium clocks stop at 90 minutes
21:39 Burnley v Arsenal
25:18 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Brentford
27:04 Norwich City v Watford
30:36 Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea
32:42 Luton Town v Swansea City
36:05 Preston North End v West Brom
This week, was a red card the right response from Craig Pawson after a sickening injury to Liverpool's Harvey Elliott? How do you handle superstars like Ronaldo? We assess red cards for Japhet Tanganga and Michail Antonio and ask why can't second yellow cards be appealed?
Plus, how much can managers say in their post-match interviews about referees? And should referee's have more options at their disposal than just red and yellow cards?
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Former Premier League and FIFA referee Mark Halsey joins Mike and Keith to discuss his career from semi-professional footballer to the top of the game as an official.
Also this week; how do you handle a pitch invasion from government officials? Can you give advantage from a foul-throw? And can more be done to improve transparency in refereeing?
Plus, whatever happened to the 'six-second' law? Mike gets out his stopwatch to ask if we should even bother with it any more.
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This week: Why Manchester United benefited from a light-touch a week after Ole Gunnar Solskjær complained about it. Why Chelsea can have no complaints about the officials this weekend, but Arsenal can. Three incidents that "cannot be ignored". An outstanding advantage. And is shielding the ball out for a goal kick legal?
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This week;
- Why Southampton's opener against Manchester United should have been ruled out
- Why Aston Villa's Emi Martinez should have been dismissed
- Why Arsene Wenger didn't want his Arsenal side to be given advantage
- How can players 'taking one for the team' be stopped?
- And how to deal with Neil Warnock, or similar.
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A positive opening weekend for referees in the Premier League but Keith Hackett explains why Burnley's goal against Brighton should have been ruled out, and why West Ham shouldn't have been given a penalty at Newcastle.
Plus;
- How should referees do their homework on players before the game starts?
- What should you do if a team seem to be taking it in turns to bring down an opponent?
- Should we take timekeeping away from the referee?
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Mike McCarthy is joined by former FIFA referee and the former boss of the PGMOL Keith Hackett to debate the big issues of the week.
This week:
- Can Manchester City have any complaints about their Community Shield defeat?
- Could Leicester City defender Wesley Fofana's broken leg have been prevented?
- How three handball claims in the Championship show the new interpretation at work
- And why a penalty at Mansfield Town shows players don't need to go down to get a decision.
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It's the last minute of a hotly contested local derby, and with the scores at 1-1 the home side win a stoppage time penalty. The home team's striker, who was booked earlier in the match, cooly slots in what must surely be the winner and celebrates by removing his shirt and giving it to a young fan in the stands. The away team's captain argues that this should be the home striker's second booking, but as you consider the situation you notice the striker is wearing an identical second shirt beneath the one he gave away. What do you do?
Welcome to Seen Them Given where we focus on the laws of the game and those who enforce them.
Mike McCarthy is joined by former FIFA referee and the former boss of the PGMOL Keith Hackett to debate the big issues of the week.
This week:
- How to spot a referee who isn't keeping up with play
- Why the handball law should be better this season
- The new Premier League referee Keith backs to become one of the best
- And what's in a referees assessment?
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