Lars Sivertsen
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We have to check the tape.
And then whichever the first clear foul is, you give that.
And whether that's a penalty or a free kick the other way, then fine.
And I think if you're actually strict on it for a few weeks and months and actually support the refs in face of the inevitable backlash when things go against the big clubs, I think it's possible to change this.
But you've got to remember, we came into the season with Howard Webb talking about how we're going to have a clampdown on this.
And the clamped out didn't last.
And I think what happens is there's a couple of controversial decisions.
Referees get told it's a physical game.
Football expects this to be allowed.
And then we're back at this again.
And hopefully next season they will try again.
No, and they are much stricter on it, which is why every time I've heard this described as a VAR problem, I don't get it because it's not a problem elsewhere where they have VAR.
It's more a sense that they've decided to allow and to have a high bar for interference in the Premier League, which I think is just leading to these wrestling matches.
Seb, I was second screening this, and having not really watched the championship this year, I looked up some stats ahead, as I do, and I noticed with some glee that Millwall have been more or less the team you'd expect them to be.
They had the second lowest pass-complete ratio in the league this season, but won the most aerial duels.
I was like, yeah, all right, I know what I'm getting here.
But as much as I was mainly watching Spurs, I did watch a bit of this, and it wasn't that game at all, really.
I thought they were kind of...
Was that because Hull were really clever in the way they approached it?
Because they kind of forced Millwall into a situation where they had to pass the ball around a lot and try to open the lock, which they didn't seem comfortable doing, really.