PGMOL chief Howard Webb is unconvinced that Diogo Dalot’s problem on Jeremy Doku in Man Utd’s 2-0 win over Man Metropolis was worthy of a purple card – however is satisfied that VAR was proper to not intervene.
Dalot escaped a purple card for a Tenth-minute deal with on Doku, which ex-Premier League referee Mike Dean believed was “100 per cent” a sending off.
The Man Utd defender was solely proven a yellow card by referee Anthony Taylor, with VAR Craig Pawson backing the on-field choice.
Analysing the choice on Mic’d Up, Webb mentioned: “Is there extreme drive? Some will say, sure. I am not fairly there, however I can see that there might be.
“It is a subjective judgment…however I am completely aligned that after that call is taken on the sector, we depart it as referee’s name and we do not intervene with the VAR.”
He added: “I believe it is one the place the referee’s name ought to stand on the sector. That is what we have mentioned we’ll do the place there’s a mixture of issues.
“I believe there’s a combine, and due to this fact on this scenario, it was proper to go away it because the referee’s name.
“If a purple had been given, I might have anticipated the purple card to face as effectively, in the identical manner.”
‘Freeze frames and slo-mo make conditions appear like purple playing cards’
Man Metropolis boss Pep Guardiola felt Dalot ought to have been despatched off after an early foul on Jeremy Doku.
However VAR Pawson stood by Taylor’s on-field choice, believing the contact was “glancing and never with drive”.
Webb mentioned: “At full velocity, whenever you play it in actual time, you possibly can see there’s not quite a lot of velocity within the motion, not a whole lot of depth.
“We have been closely criticised just a few years in the past for utilizing sluggish movement and freeze frames as a result of individuals mentioned, this isn’t actuality. It isn’t how the sport is performed. While you sluggish it down, it may look rather a lot worse – and it does. While you freeze body it, you can also make a whole lot of conditions appear like purple card offences.
“So it is troublesome for me to listen to individuals make a judgment on this simply by analysing freeze body and sluggish movement, coming to the consideration that it is purple on that foundation.
“Sure, it might be purple, however it’s important to take into consideration the necessity to take a look at it at full velocity. We have accomplished that for a while now. We thought it was a good criticism a while in the past when individuals mentioned, ‘Cease utilizing slow-mos as the principle manner of analysing these conditions’. And we have listened, and we agree. And we play it at full velocity. Then we sluggish it down just a little bit to see the precise level of contact to issue that in as effectively.
“However with out velocity and drive and depth, it is unlikely to be a purple card.”
Keane and Richards really feel Dalot ought to’ve been despatched off
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