Steve Bone

Oxford get their free kick.

Nobody is looking back at that afterwards and saying, oh, this yellow card in the Pompey game, why wasn't that given as a red?

I don't think it's a talking point.

Whereas it became the talking point.

something got him that he didn't give you know the Spencer was on a yellow that was a clear yellow he'd given yellow cards for similar things in that game and and worse things in that game and better things in that game and he didn't give one for that and I think if the player hadn't already been booked he would have been booked there therefore you're saying well what's the referee playing at

I think all managers and players and fans want from referees is consistency you want consistency across games but you don't always get that because you've got different referees interpreting things but you certainly want consistency within one game from one referee and I don't think we had that I think if we'd had consistency

Spencer would have gone off as well and it might not have affected the result we don't know do we you can't go back and say that the result would have been different would have been this or would have been that if Oxford had gone down to 10 at that point but I think we could have lived with the Ogilvy red a bit more easily if Spencer had had a red as well I've just thought of this question what would have been the outcome do you think if we had VAR if we had VAR

Yeah, I don't know.

The only other referee type I've seen comment on it was Keith Hackett who thought it was a clear red.

So if we'd had Mr Video Assistant there, I think they'd have looked at it.

I don't know if they would have considered it a clear and obvious mistake by the ref and tried to get him to have a look at it again.

But there have been plenty of things that VAR has got involved in and tried to overturn or overturned that aren't clear and obvious, which is one of the reasons people don't like it.

It's interfering in too much, isn't it?

and I saw a couple of people say after this Pompey game oh I wish we had VAR in the championship well I certainly don't because you may get the odd thing going in your favour instead of against you but you get just as many going against you that were in favour and I just think it breaks the game up it causes it changes football I think it changes the viewing experience of football does VAR in that you can't celebrate anything you have to wait for

10 minutes, don't you think?

Yeah, we'd have still been there at tea time, wouldn't we?

Definitely would have been home in time for tea.

Yeah, and we don't know what conclusion they'd have come to, do we?

I see Pompey have appealed against it.

uh... wasn't sure that they would all that much of the scene i said after the game he he seems to quite clear straight away didn't either that they would appeal uh... i suppose in a way you've got nothing to lose by appealing although keith hackett who keeps sort of uh... maybe he's being asked but he keeps sort of putting his four penneth into this one um... has to sort of make a living from his media outlets somehow i suppose uh... he has