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Everyone please take their seat. No talking! Please take out your scantron sheets and your #2
pencils. The Final Exam will commence momentarily. If you cheat, you will be red carded and given
an F. If you completed the required reading and attended class, you should do fine. If you were
stoned, you should still get an A.
After what sounds like an absolutely epic appeal by Arsenal worthy of a Hague courtroom, UEFA
has overturned Eduardo's two-match ban for diving. How you feel about the decision likely has a lot
to do with your thoughts on whether such punishments are truly effective deterrents to such
nefarious acts.
Match Officials announced for Tuesday's match against Hartlepool Utd
Mr. Chris Sarginson, will be the man in charge at Edgeley park on Tuesday Night.
Sarginson was a Select Group Assistant Referee in 2005 and in the same year was appointed AR in
FA Challenge Vase Final, the Football League Play-Off Final and a UEFA Cup Tie.
Today was the start of the Europa League, and the full debut of UEFA's experiment with goal-line
referees, one of whom is pictured above looking rather lonely during tonight's CSKA Sofia vs Fulham
Group E game (which ended 1-1, since you asked). The big idea is that the two new goal-line
assistants (one at each end) [.
Back in June, as Major League Soccer was finding its stride on the other side of the Atlantic,
Michel Platini and UEFA confirmed that this year's Europa League would be the testing ground for a
new officiating structure.
By adding an 'additional assistant referee' behind each goal line, Platini hopes to do away with
the cheating which occurs in the penalty area, from a playful tug on the shirt at a corner to the
game's crime of the moment, diving.
