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The Importance of Refereeing
I liked how feisty it was, but refereeing the prime aspects of that job is obviously to ensure that the laws are applied and followed. And I feel like fans are quite often forget that. You're constantly just managing situations. So if you book somebody really early, it can go one of two ways. Either players take note and go, OK, can't tackle like that, or we'll get books. Or as would possibly be in the case in this game, you end up with at least one team getting an amount sent off. It's a very difficult job. But I thought generally it was refereed quite well. The handball call for that penalty was correct.