■ How did Sven Botman avoid a red card? ■ Were Rogers or Garner lucky? ■ Can players kick the ball away now? ■ What are the rules over crowding the ref? In his latest Ask the Ref column, former EPL referee @Refsplaining answers your questions. 🔗 nyti.ms/4k5w2dA

The KMI panel was supposed to improve the scrutiny of refereeing. It hasn’t worked out that way. This is what you need to know about the panel and why it isn’t working, including: ▪️ Who is really on the panel ▪️ How it feels to be judged post-match ▪️ Explaining the voting - and what training panellists receive ▪️ How it can be improved 📝 @refsplaining nyti.ms/3Tjb2VY

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙤𝙣 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙀𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙩 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙎𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙟𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡? — 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘼 Former Premier League referee Graham Scott (@refsplaining): I have absolutely no idea, sorry. The evidence is irrefutable that Anderson handled deliberately in his own penalty area, batting the ball away under pressure from Enzo Le Fee. A split second earlier, the ball also hit the hand of Le Fee, whose arm was raised and away from his body. But it was in a justifiable position given his actions and had deflected off his own shoulder, which would give him complete mitigation because the ball changed direction significantly. While an intervention might have been a hard sell given the ball struck both players’ hands, the VAR would have had the law on his side. 🔗 nyti.ms/3VowJo0