I'm not sure the novelty of watching Rovers at a new ground will also apply to watching it in Blues, but in all seriousness fair play to Rovers here. They won't be able to stream it due to the competition regulations, but at least they've gone to the effort to get it on. Having said that, once any club sells out its given away allocation it should be a formality that the game can be beamed back to the home ground. It's a no brainer. It would give an option against illegal streaming and also generate a bit of revenue for the clubs.

It's on Rovers TV Premium as long as you have an 1875 membership, season ticket, Premium TV pass, went to Rotherham away, vape, don't have a HG postcode and your email address has been on the database for 5 years

Come on lads. Swag ain’t gonna let you off joining the 1875 club that easily. He will have demanded the email addresses from Harrogate to go through one by one.

🤔🤔 Where do you start with that.

Well Mr Hedges, it has taken 127 days but you are now officially forgiven.

Moved into the right thread. The wasit band on Usyk's shorts were above his belly button. Therefore it's not low. According to the pundits after the ref didnt actually do the customary insruction before the fight about what is and isnt low. However, he did get outboxed and did quit when the going got tough. Thats the second time he's done it.

All I will say is Usyk’s belt line is above his naval.

So basically you’ve got Rovers to win 1-0 with Wharton needing to assist Szmodics for the goal and Porteious and Travis to be booked.

You forgot the bit about celebrating with a bottle of red.

It’s a loyalty tax. Waggots strategy has always been “how can I squeeze more money out of the fans that we have” and this is another one.

Her arm is out and when the girl knocks it past her she leans into it with her arm. It's a penalty. Keeper is off the line as well when she saves it. Huge let off. Let's hope it's the turning point.

Wrong thread, but got to laugh at Bolton being 3-0 at half time to Wigan. They had spent all week asking their usual “who are our rivals” question.

Some of your examples are a fail in technology, or a secondary factor not being accounted for. Monday nights was one of the worst ones I have seen where the VAR official has looked at a single incident and decided it is (or isn't) a foul judged on the laws of the game.

As I said I don't blame the ref on Saturday for the second yellow. He just needs other refs to make sure they follow suit in order to keep consistent to not make him look an idiot. The first booking we've not discussed. That's a joke as well. 😁

No it's not. It shows the player thinks it's a card and the ref disagrees (or agrees). I certainly don't look at it and think the ref has lost control depending on whether he gives a card or not. Now if the players start shouting at the ref, crowding the ref, or barging him, or forcing him to take a step back then that is different. Book them all day, even send them off. But for card waving where do you stop. If a player gets barged over in the box and a player turns round with his arms out an appeals for a penalty that's not between the two of them. If the ref then gives the penalty has he lost control? What if a player thinks it's a corner, appeals and starts taking the ball towards the corner flag? I get it's the now the rule, refs have to enforce it and players will stop doing it and all that. But I really see card waving on it's own as very low down the issues with the game. It's one of the least examples of disrespect towards officials. I'd rather referees were instructed / advised to get things under control that were not in line with the rules or dangerous than a lad sat on the floor laughing waving a card. For example, there have already been two instances this season where I have seen where a defender has barged a striker out of the way to let it go for a goal kick and the striker has collided with the advertisement board. Anywhere else on the pitch then it's a foul. In this case it's even dangerous as the player falling could bang their head on the boards surrounding. And yet it's ignored.

Fortunately for common sense, the head of referees and the PGMOL both disagree with you and say it was blatant.

I don't think it's necessarily the clubs involved . I think it's the time of the incident combined with the mentality of that particular official. But I'm just guessing obviously as I can't understand how someone trained for that role can get that so badly wrong when millions of couch potatoes who've never read a rule book in their life all clearly see it.

I honestly reckon if that happens in the United box in the first 10 minutes they give it. As it basically changes the final result of the game I think the VAR decides it's too big a call to make. I believe the VAR official has a slight bit of doubt about it, and rather than make the correct call he is decides it will be less controversial not to give it than give it.

Exactly this. At real speed it looked a penalty but nowadays too often the referees won't give it and rely on VAR to bail them out. It's like its less embarrassing to say "I didn't see it" than for it to be given, overturned and say "I saw it incorrectly"

He missed one in the pre-season games hence why he probably was taken off them.

What about verbally saying to the ref "That should be a booking". What about saying anything to the ref "That should be a foul" or "That should be a our throw". If the football authorities were officiating cricket then you for an lbw appeal you would have to turn around and say "Excuse me Mr Umpire but could I have your opinion on whether that was going to hit the stumps or not" If there's any aggression towards the referee then it should be a card. Any crowding around the referee it should be a card. But a simple gesture sat on the floor from 6 feet away to say "That should be a card" should not be a yellow. It certainly should not be a straight red. If it's all about setting an impression I'd be booking people for spitting and and clearing their nose on the pitch long before waving a card. BTW, in the context of the game it probably should have been a card. As it wasn't, it told us you can foul a man who is breaking past you towards the edge of your own box and get away with it, but kick the ball away 3 feet, wave a card or celebrate a goal and in the book you go.

Sky were told it’s not a penalty because “VAR want to leave as many decisions as possible to the on-field referee” 😂😂🤡🤡

I’m just shaking my head at that. If the keeper punches it up in the air, and a striker charges into him like that with his hands around his head and floors him of course it is a free kick. The ref says it’s just a coming together, but the wolves player isn’t even moving towards the goalkeeper. The goalkeeper just flies into him.

Currently thousands of Rotherham fans watching the Man U - Wolves game are screaming at the telly “How come Varane hasn’t been booked for that?”