Referees/Officials 2017/18 performances

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

That Walker bloke is a right wanker. Whatever became of him?

He became a mercenary. Left a team of serial winners whilst getting paid £100pw, for a club with no chance of winning silverware. Greedy bastard springs to mind. Meanwhile, ‘Arry, Dele and the like, who form part of the best starting 11 in England and are the best footballing team in the Premier League, are in the shake up for a top 4 finish.
Think I saw the lad on Sunday looking very disappointed with those other two serial losers, Stones and Sterling. What a muppet Walker must feel like every morning, realising what he’s done.

 

[ancoats]

the thing is nothing can be done after the game you can show 20 to 30 different angles on a after show and the panel of people can call it foul or not but i have never i seen a result change because of a video replay after the game its gone and to late. tv and there so called panel are getting well paid for doing nothing but watching replays its what we all do after the game and chew over the fat of the rights or wrongs

its getting to much and with 24 hours of football and more and more so called great ex-players on a panel with a head of media giving there view its getting really daft and its just money for old rope and maybe that is whats wrong with football not the game. too many ex-players having a say on everything and the fans lap it up from there hero's but nothing can change a result yes it can soften the blow if your hero is on your side but again what is the point its done and dusted when the game is over

skysports have turned us into so called football experts we what to know the inn's and outs of the game and from a throw in to a dead ball its view with 20 odd cameras and if its wrong we are up in arms and feel robbed and cheated. there is so much info now and the game is highlighted from each second the ball is in play you can not settle for a mistake its cheating by the ref and players

the game i loved is not the same game anymore there is to much stats video after shows ex-players views and wall to wall eat drink and sleep football replays we just can not let it go anymore. week after week we are talking about something that happen weeks ago and its gone the result will never change

 

[Mike N]

Stones was at fault for the goal. Terrible defending.

 

[cleavers]

That Walker bloke is a right wanker. Whatever became of him?

Became our "wanker" I believe.

 

[Kid A]

Stones was at fault for the goal. Terrible defending.

Good grief.

 

[pass2silva]

Stones makes two mistakes. Firstly, he slightly misjudged the path and weighting of the ball. Secondly, he doesn't go down under the challenge. If he's goes down, it's almost certainly a free kick. Both mistakes show a touch of naivety

If it had been otamendi, he'd have gone down and rolled over thst many times, by the time he'd gotten up, he'd have been back in Manchester.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Whoever doesn’t think that’s a foul needs to get their eyes tested.

Or they don't follow netball.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Don't be silly.

Nowt for that and a red v Everton this season....the price of wearing a City shirt.

 

[Metalartin]

I think the intent is more important than the force used(which is subjective), just as going over the top of the ball or diving in both feet off the ground is a red card whether you make contact or not. If Firmino meant to shove him in the back(which he clearly did) then it's a foul and how much force we each feel is required should not be relevant. Stones clearly tried to keep his footing but stumbled due to Firmino's actions, balance and strength aren't quite the same thing either. Just as the example of Walker pushing Sterling in the back didn't require much force to send him off balance either. I haven't checked but I'd imagine it's written in the laws of the game that you cant push a player in the back, simply from referees who've spoke on it in the past and why shoulder to shoulder is what we look for.

As others have said he shouldn't have tried to be honest about it and gone to ground as soon as he felt it, being honest gets you nowhere as a defender in today's game. I thought he was seriously hard done by with so many blues throwing him under the bus for it.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Whoever doesn’t think that’s a foul needs to get their eyes tested. From the angle firmino came, the only way he could get the ball was to barge stones in the back and that’s exactly what he did.

Preach on, brother! Absolutely right!

Walton is pathetic. He is on ESPN FC every week defending poor refereeing, and the players are aghast at his decisions and admonitions every week, too!

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Nowt for that and a red v Everton this season....the price of wearing a City shirt.

That and a Premier League Winners medal! Yeah, baby!!!Even the bent refs couldn’t stop us, hard as they tried!

 

[nmc]

...but if we didn't lose that Anfield league game, who knows how the CL fixture would have panned out... Suppose it's not healthy to dwell on the ifs and buts.. but... ah never mind.

And imagine if we hadn’t lost at Anfield and the Rags had stopped us being inbeaaten in the league season.

 

[cibaman]

Don't be silly.

The following day Howard Webb wrote that by not going down Raheem made the referee’s job difficult and that it would have been helpful if he had gone down.

And people wonder why players go down easily

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I'm just waiting for Sir Anthony next Sunday.

Far from advocating violence but if he or the Maddley's of this world got the Soton gig a few choice words from an invader or two after the match may bring things to a head as the meeting with Old Mother Riley seems to have done fuck all.

I realise the media would go for our throat but it may shit up these cheats and make them think twice before stiffing us again & again.

 

[Mike N]

Good grief.

It was as much a foul as Sergio's in the cup final.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

It's one of those that could go either way. I think a few people on here at the time were saying that Stones should have been stronger.

Could go either way, but never our way! Same as Dean on Sunday!!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The following day Howard Webb wrote that by not going down Raheem made the referee’s job difficult and that it would have been helpful if he had gone down.

And people wonder why players go down easily

A push isn't a push no matter what yer eyes have seen unless the person 'pushed' goes down and chews a bit of grass. Salad has hallucinations t'other day when he 'saw' someone push him and then went down so that the ref would have no doubt he'd been fouled!

The way the game is governed is as bent as a nine euro note!

 

[SWP's back]

Whoever doesn’t think that’s a foul needs to get their eyes tested. From the angle firmino came, the only way he could get the ball was to barge stones in the back and thaya exactly what he did.

So it’s a fucking foul then.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

As far as I can see the pundit who is commentating on the game dictates whether it's a likely foul or not and whether the media pick up on it and more surprisingly whether even our own fans believe it was a foul.

It was the same with ederson being fouled by Arnautovic last week.. He barged Ederson off the ball, came on here and people were talking the same as the pundit, "should have been stronger"

Don't believe the pundits and commentators at all, we know they are bias, unfortunately they set the narrative

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Anyone know who has been appointed to send off a couple of City players next Sunday. Can't find a thing anywhere, or are PiGMOL waiting to see if Southampton need another point so they can give the gig to Taylor?