A new season means a few changes in the way Premier League games will be refereed and on the evidence of Saturday they are going to be welcomed.
In March clubs were surveyed for their views on refereeing and they fed back their thoughts. Then we had the Euros which which were a success in the way matches were officiated.
The result we want is players going out to express themselves and on the evidence of the games I saw, which were really competitive, it’s encouraging. It’s impossible to know what impact these changes will have in the numbers of incidents until we have sufficient data.