I don't want the game to lose its flow but there has to be the case for each manager to have a couple of "calls" per game where a contentious decision can be checked when play next stops.
In the case of Saturday's decision,1) play stops for the offside, 2) Allardyce beeps the fourth official and the decision gets reviewed. If linesman is correct, Allardyce loses one of his "calls". If not, as was the case, Heaton gets a red card and Palace get a free kick or pen.
Oh and with a review system Rashford gets sent off yesterday for blatant dive.
It's time football joined other sports in the 21st Century. It's so boring that half of MotD is spent discussing decisions.

Video tech would have worked like a charm in this. Zaha was brought down and a quick scan of the video would show he was onside, therefore a foul and as last man, surely a red. All this could be done in under 10 seconds which is before the play has even restarted. Football is so behind in this respect, it is untrue.

As for the lino flagging late, I'd put this down to, due to the nature of both throughout the game, not having a good game. You have stated the players had a bad game, not at 100% etc. as to why we didn't get the result. I accept that, hardly surprising given the games we have recently had and the injuries to boot. Most people can accept it. That being said, referees, being human, also can have bad games. Those 3 certainly did and no amount of "experience" or knowledge of their profession can detract from that. They got some big decisions wrong which could well have changed the way the game was played and the end result.

"They got his own song 'He's just too good for you', it's quite unbelievable but when you see it and he's facing up someone - I actually feel sorry for them, 'Cos he actually is" - Ian Holloway

In other words, there are no meaningful consequences for officials when they deliver poor performances.

So, it's OK for them to perform abysmally badly.

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Yeah? Just ask Mike Dean.

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"Demoted" amongst big fanfares in January, put in charge of a Championship match in which he awarded a penalty for a handball clearly outside the box, and reinstated to the Premier League the following week.

Don't make me laugh.

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Attwell was demoted after a four-year catalogue of dreadful performances and of course he didn't have the political clout of a Clattenburg to protect him. And in 2014 he was back.

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You said all this once "already". The "lino" guessed and he was "wrong".

The right place at the right time