Gab Marcotti

And she knows how bad it is to pull hair.

Maybe she's had her hair pulled.

Yeah, sure.

What struck me about this, too, were two things.

One is...

And you watch a lot more women's football than I do.

But the level of what they call spit-housery here and time-wasting late in the game to preserve the lead, you know, taking the ball into the corner and just kind of standing there.

There's a level of physicality and intensity and dark arts, you might say, that people often don't associate with the women's game.

Certainly not in international football, which is what I watch the most when it comes to women.

The other thing is, what you're talking about, Sonia Mamposto, she didn't get sent off.

She was obviously angry over this.

It seemed to me like she got sent off because the ball goes out of play and she runs onto the field.

She tries to hand it over and stuff.

She's shouting at the referee.

I think she gets sent off, but she doesn't actually go down the tunnel.

It's...

She does not look to me like somebody who is well right now, who is happy.

Do you think she's going to be back next year?

And some managers have come out and said, no, send us the best officials, otherwise we'll be disrespectful.

Well, I'm sorry, we want to develop women officials and women VARs.