The ref/lino trio have done a lot of matches together apparently

Though this is their biggest game

I do have a slightly irrational prejudice against Americans officiating in a game which they basically don’t really understand (I did say it was irrational), so quite pleased to find that the ref is a Moroccan who moves to the States as a teenager.

Polish VAR (Tomasz Kwiatkowski) with Venezuelan assistant. Kwiatkowski is very experienced so hopefully no VAR hoo-ha

Posted By: Old Git, Jul 15, 08:20:48