Everton 1-1 Leicester: 3 things learned from Foxes draw

VAR has gone suspiciously quiet and yellow cards continue to baffle

What may have gone unnoticed by nearly everyone is how close to offside Everton’s goal was to being offside. Don’t you remember how the lines were drawn on the pitch –  and don’t worry you’re not going crazy. The goal wasn’t shown on the replays and no colourful lines were drawn despite how close it looked (go and check my twitter feed if you want to see how close).

Many will pipe in at this point and proclaim how every goal is checked so that one must have been onside. If that is the case then it needs to be showed clearly like it has been all season. We’re all conspiracy theorists us football fans regardless of the colours we follow. By not showing a decision that was so close only gets those alarm bells going again. I’m not claiming that it even was offside, but i will claim that it wasn’t even checked, because we have no evidence to prove otherwise. In fact VAR has gone quiet in a lot of games all at once, very strange.

Finally a note for everyone’s favourite referee Mike Dean. He didn’t have a particularly bad game but like any ref his reaching for yellow cards defies any sensible logic or consistency. When Harvey Barnes was taken out by Mina on the edge of the box early on, i was certain a yellow would be forthcoming, but no nothing. With the first half drawing to a close, everyones favourite boy scout Richarlison hit the deck on the halfway line going nowhere dangerous.

Mike Dean obviously reached for his yellow for James Justin of course. Later in the second half Dominic Calvert-Lewin challenged Caglar Soyuncu high on the shin and nowhere near the ball. No yellow card and no common sense. I’m not having a go at Tranmere enthusiast Mr Dean but he might want to work out what constitutes a yellow before his next trip to ref a game, just to help us all out.