{"id":435668,"date":"2023-05-16T08:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435668"},"modified":"2023-05-16T08:26:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:26:56","slug":"howard-webb-defends-first-public-conversation-between-match-officials","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/howard-webb-defends-first-public-conversation-between-match-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Webb defends first public conversation between match officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League made a huge step towards clarifying refereeing decision by introducing live communication between match officials during the game.<\/p>\n<p>The match in question was Sunday&#8217;s game between Brentford and Southamptom, which saw the Saints get relegated.<\/p>\n<p>Match official initially awarded the Bees with a penalty, which later got overturned after a VAR review. More interesting is the conversation between the head official and those behind the video cameras, which was broadcast live.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of this invention is to give transparency into match officiating.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Going forward, we are looking to do more of the same,\u2019 Howard Webb said.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that even if some decisions remain debatable, live broadcasting helps dent any claims about referees favoritism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League made a huge step towards clarifying refereeing decision by introducing live communication between match officials during the game. The match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":435669,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19393,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[19394,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The ex-referee gave an insight as to how decisions are taken","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435668"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435668"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}