The French trio of officials angered the England fans on many occasions. Sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly.

There was a blatant penalty in the second half for a foul on Parris where Foord was nowhere near the ball and hacked down the England forward.  I don’t think the referee or her assistant know the Tom Daley comparisons with regards to the City forward and it was a genuine error from the assistant who was really close to the action.

The other assistant didn’t give a goal where the ball might have crossed the line. The replay was inconclusive. The same assistant flagged Lucy Staniforth offside and rightly so after a forward pass from Kirby when both players were through.

The referee also didn’t award a penalty for a foul on Beth Mead. To me it look perfectly justified as the Arsenal forward ran straight at the defender made contact and went down. Don’t get me wrong, penalties are given in those kinds of situations, but as the forward initiated the contact with the defender, not a foul for me.

https://twitter.com/kunjanmalde/status/1049790490114228225

There’s unlikely to be VAR at the FIFA WWC 2019 simply because not enough women referees are VAR trained so far. Goal-line technology should be available because all the grounds already use it in Ligue Un and Ligue Deux.

The public also remonstrated against the whistling of fouls, but this is simply a cultural difference between refereeing in France and England. If you are used to pate and then given foie gras, you won’t like the foie gras 😁