Barney Ronay

There's going to be a problem with micro-refereeing in this tournament.

We had a TV close-up of the VAR room on the feed beforehand and they kind of stood to attention.

I mean, nobody wants it.

There are two kinds of people who watch football.

People who actually care about the rules and want them to be enforced and think that's what the game is.

It's about the enforcement of rules.

and people who just don't care.

And I'm one of the latter, and we have given the game to the former, and those people are really enjoying it.

But I think we need a light touch with this.

I thought two of those red cards were really soft, particularly the violent conduct one.

I agree with the utterly baffled expression of the player concerned.

It was a ridiculous call, in my opinion, and I was sad to see it.

Amazingly, I'm not actually suggesting we don't have laws.

The laws exist for a reason.

They exist to make the game work, not the other way around.

The laws are just there to stop the whole thing descending, essentially to stop it descending into a formless mess.

And as long as it's not doing that, these aren't...

Probably just have a more slightly more more robust, more muscular take than you on what what what the game is.

I mean, if that to you is a shocking incident, then I I respect how you feel.

I don't want to make you feel unsafe.