Lars Sivertsen
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We still may not know the full extent of everything that's under investigation.
Should be said that as of today, they've been pretty clear that no clubs are under investigation.
This is a case relating specifically to refereeing and how certain refereeing decisions were made about which referees get designated to certain matches and also about how VAR is used.
There was this particular game that was picked up where you had two officials discussing a VAR decision in the game between referees.
Udinese and Parma last season where Florian Thauvin's shot hit the arm of Botan Balogh inside the penalty box.
The VAR official Daniela Paterna, they have a situation similar to in England where the VAR headquarters are done for the International Broadcast Centre.
was seen basically saying not a penalty uh with his assistant and then turns off camera on the camera you can see and clearly gets a gesture from someone that perhaps this uh is worth reconsidering because he's can you can see him mouthing it's penalty and then he tells the referee to um to have a look at it again and then ends up giving the decision for a penalty so discussion about
Who exactly that was who said that to him and whether that was the appropriate protocol.
It's a lot of stuff about protocol and stuff about designating referees.
But of course, we're 20 years on from Calciopoli, which was a big scandal about how referees were designated.
So it is very tense and sensitive ground.
But again, just to say at the moment, at least, the investigators have said no clubs under investigation.
This is an investigation about the refereeing processes.
Also saying that these people we're talking about, Gervasoni, Rocchi,
Yeah, I know it lets everyone jump up and down and on a slot head season, but I do think Liverpool kind of played this well in terms of finding a balance between trying to create chances and not leaving themselves completely exposed for the pace that PSG bring on the counter.
The outcome was what it was, but I thought they actually did reasonably well and with a little bit of luck slash sharper finishing, this could have gone in a different direction.
I still think the final ball in the first half, they got into quite a lot of promising positions where there was a slightly loose pass or the timing wasn't quite right.
I mean, it's clear that things aren't flowing for the team at the moment, but I thought this was a reasonable effort overall.
That sounds like a sort of... A terrible film in the Bourne franchise.
I also know it sounds like an underwhelming jazz band, but, you know, this could also be... Yeah, yeah, it works both ways.