Yon

Does anyone know if the money they spend on lawyers is FFP-relevant expenses..?

How did Garnacho get away with scuffing the spot, may as well have taken a shovel to it, in full view of everyone?!

The staggering thing from the recording is the sheer level of incompetence in the process. There’s so much language that is ambiguous or incomprehensible and, perhaps worse, matey and chummy and totally inappropriate to an efficient process. If this were air traffic control, the global airline industry would be destroyed in a day at the cost of millions of lives. So let’s have less talk from media folks about human beings and pressure… There should be clear steps in the process to checking a goal and clear, very concise language, to convey each step. That hasn’t been put in place- confirmed by the “well done boys, good process” remark- and that is the fault of the people in charge. The whole thing throws up so many questions when you get into the details that it’s difficult to know where to begin. Safe to say, however, that for the integrity of the game, referees should not be taking money on the side from the owners of a football club in the league where they operate. I’m not sure any of us would get that through our HR departments’ conflict of interest clauses…