I have a story.. and i really do need to be careful on names.Instructions from above I think.
I used to watch my lad play rugby alongside a premier League ref. No names but you can work it out.
I was giving him some gentle stick about sending SWP off the day before, and he was defending the decision, all very amicably.
Then he got a phone call and moved away to take it. When he came back he was furious and told me the "powers that be" had told him to reverse it so the card was rescinded. He said the reason was something to do with "ongoing negotiations" or some such, nothing to do with the decision itself. Then in the media it said he'd changed his mind on seeing the video. That was total bollox.
Weve had this guy a few times and he lets a lot go and does very little to prevent timewasting. Wouldnt be surprised if opposition managers tell their players they can get stuck in and waste time when they see him selected for the game against us.Refs have good and bad games too though. He won’t have seen the handball and VAR seems to have been switched off by Webb.
I left the ground thinking about Haaland’s misses more than the referee, but obviously hadn’t seen any contentious decision back at that point.
Fair comment. It is possible.Weve had this guy a few times and he lets a lot go. Wouldnt be surprised if opposition managers tell their players they can get stuck in and waste time when they see him selected for the game against us.
will be interested to how he refs other games
It actually needs referees sending keeps off ,one weekend of it would solve the problem.Should bring in a new rule that any goalie who take longer that 10 seconds to kick the ball they'll be an extra 1 minute added
That's a bit harsh on head like a 50p Haaland :+)1. Yes, we could have had a penalty yesterday. (Haaland would have headed it wide anyway…) ;-)
2. It could have been, yes.
3. I thought Chelsea were very good at the dark arts of loads of little pulls, nudges and shoves that often aren’t given as fouls.
Marginal calls didn’t go our way yesterday. It happens. Even if Haaland had bagged a hattrick, the ref would still be getting abuse.
He’d been watching Sibierski videos!That's a bit harsh on head like a 50p Haaland :+)
Lets see how he refs the game on wednesday for liverpool v luton. Should be a similar comparison as luton will be physical.Fair comment. It is possible.
Unlike the Alex Greenwood second yellow for 'alleged' time wasting the referee who sends off a goalie for timewasting would be pilloried and demoted down a league. Under the present interpretation I think if the goalie has tarried over the first three goal kicks then it should be a card whether the third kick comes in the tenth minute or not. Timewasting at a goal kick should automatically convert a goal kick to a corner. They wouldn't fuck about with the fourth one, and is any goalie gonna get a second yellow for timewasting? I think we have more chance of one of the four pens on Saturday being presented to us in the warm up on Tuesday and we start 1-0 up!It actually needs referees sending keeps off ,one weekend of it would solve the problem.
It won’t and can’t be exactly the same. The games aren’t played in a vacuum.Lets see how he refs the game on wednesday for liverpool v luton. Should be a similar comparison as luton will be physical.
Haven't people been saying for ages that the yellow card for dissent seems to have disappeared along with the super long extra time for time-wasting?Nobody here in the general PL games thread would ever suggest the same with rival players.
We’re all objective here and everybody else is wrong…
It’s just blinkered tribalism and reactionism in real time.
There have been more cards for dissent this season than last, so far.Haven't people been saying for ages that the yellow card for dissent seems to have disappeared along with the super long extra time for time-wasting?
Do you think the referee had a good game yesterday and applied the laws of the game equally and fairly to both teams?
Do you think there's a possibility his decision making was influenced by a subconscious bias regarding Chelsea's long and rich history?
Do you feel that the partisan home crowd may have pressured him to give decisions the home teams way?
The crowd got those two booked in the same way the crowd got us one of the pens.There have been more cards for dissent this season than last, so far.
I didn’t think the ref had a great game yesterday, but there have been far worse than him.
No.
The crowd got their keeper booked and probably Caicedo too.
Daniel was trying to catch me out with something I’d said a fortnight or so ago.The crowd got those too booked in the same way the crowd got us one of the pens.
This is one of the dumbest posts on here, particularly as it's in a thread discussing referee's performance.But if we put a couple more of our 30 odd shots in the net then we take bent officials out of the equation
From what I've seen over the last few games we aren't very good at it!!Daniel was trying to catch me out with something I’d said a fortnight or so ago.
Our crowd can influence referees as much as any other.
Maybe Pep was right in calling us out then.From what I've seen over the last few games we aren't very good at it!!
Correct.Daniel was trying to catch me out with something I’d said a fortnight or so ago.
Our crowd can influence referees as much as any other.
He needn't call me out. At every corner I'm yelling at the whistling wanker to point to the spot with any of the umpteen pens that appear.Maybe Pep was right in calling us out then.