Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

Alan Harper's Tash said:
In a cup tie already dead? Bet both managers thanked him afterwards.

Cue 25 pages of outrage over nothing,
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Yep, if people look that hard for corruption they will surely find it every minute of every day.
Did you notice they didn't show the lines for the offside check for our 5th? Very sus if you ask me ;)
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
It’ll stop when you divulge who the next referee is appointed and how they’ll screw us over.

I’ve learnt. It’s an echo chamber.

Moaning about no injury time when a cup game is dead seems particularly crazy to me, but hey ho. Each to their own.
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I'm so pleased your sanctimonious enough to be above it all.

Each to their own.
 
Blue Mist said:
So it is now OK for a ref to decide which rules/laws he wants to follow. What if I had £100 on 7-2 or twenty on a goal on the 94th minute.
A ref cannot pick and choose when he wants to go home
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I honestly don’t care anymore.

Whatever a ref does is wrong/bent. I get it.

He made the decision to end the game as it had finished and goal difference irrelevant.

I’m not sure you really want refs thinking about who’s accas they’re spoiling when making decisions.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
I honestly don’t care anymore.

Whatever a ref does is wrong/bent. I get it.

He made the decision to end the game as it had finished and goal difference irrelevant.

I’m not sure you really want refs thinking about who’s accas they’re spoiling when making decisions.
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You say you 'really don't care anymore' and then continue to object to any criticism of a referee.
He had a good game but you cannot decide which laws/rules you are going to follow and which you aren't
 
Blue Mist said:
You say you 'really don't care anymore' and then continue to object to any criticism of a referee.
He had a good game but you cannot decide which laws/rules you are going to follow and which you aren't
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No, I cannot fathom how, when we’ve just won 6-2, that any of us give a flying fuck about not playing enough injury time, just to get something over the ref.

Mind boggling.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
No, I cannot fathom how, when we’ve just won 6-2, that any of us give a flying fuck about not playing enough injury time, just to get something over the ref.

Mind boggling.
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No. If he refuses to add time on presumably because he's not arsed, you surely can see why fans get annoyed when only 3 minutes of added time is given rather than 6,7 or 8 minutes. This is why there are so many comments about it, it's simply made up by one nan.
 
Blue Mist said:
No. If he refuses to add time on presumably because he's not arsed, you surely can see why fans get annoyed when only 3 minutes of added time is given rather than 6,7 or 8 minutes. This is why there are so many comments about it, it's simply made up by one nan.
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Not really. We’ve just won 6-2 and injury time would have been an irrelevance.

People moan about the flag not going up for “close” offsides and playing on can cause injuries.

The irrelevant injury time of a dead game is exactly the same principle.

Blow up and go home.
 
Blue Mist said:
So it is now OK for a ref to decide which rules/laws he wants to follow. What if I had £100 on 7-2 or twenty on a goal on the 94th minute.
A ref cannot pick and choose when he wants to go home
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So he plays 3 mins stoppage time say, we score a 7th so you are really happy. But then Kev goes for the ball, falls awkward, fucks his knee and is out for the season. All good cause you won a few quid, but seriously dents our run in. You still happy with the extra time when the match was effectively over??

As a blue I was quite happy he blew straight away.
 
FA Cup games are always refereed to a slightly different standard to league games.

Don’t ask me why but it’s been the case for as long as I can remember.

If the same two teams were playing in the league on Saturday , with the same referee, the spread on number of bookings would be far higher than in the cup game.

None in City’s game. None, until extra time in the Newcastle game. None last night in the Coventry game.

I once read that it’s because they’re not automatically assessed in cup games, as they are the league. But I’ve absolutely no idea if there’s any truth in that.

Maybe they feel they’re given a bit more leeway for that ‘common sense’ approach that people are always crying out for? Rather than sticking to the absolute letter of the law. That might explain the zero injury time also.
 
Stephen230 said:
FA Cup games are always refereed to a slightly different standard to league games.

Don’t ask me why but it’s been the case for as long as I can remember.

If the same two teams were playing in the league on Saturday , with the same referee, the spread on number of bookings would be far higher than in the cup game.

None in City’s game. None, until extra time in the Newcastle game. None last night in the Coventry game.

I once read that it’s because they’re not automatically assessed in cup games, as they are the league. But I’ve absolutely no idea if there’s any truth in that.

Maybe they feel they’re given a bit more leeway for that ‘common sense’ approach that people are always crying out for? Rather than sticking to the absolute letter of the law. That might explain the zero injury time also.
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The difference was noticeable tonight.

What are they assessed for every PL game that's different to a cup match?
 
city2 said:
How many times did haaland get fouled tonight the ref was a fucking joke as usual
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It was quite ridiculous. At one point Taylor watched as Haaland was stopped from moving and gave the arm for advantage once there want one.

Different gravy.
 
TinFoilHat said:
The difference was noticeable tonight.

What are they assessed for every PL game that's different to a cup match?
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I don’t know if they are mate.

There was a discussion a few years ago on a forum after there had been a full round of cup games, with an average of less than one booking per game.

Someone claimed that in the league they were assessed in every game, which effectively would decide where their career would go. So it was letter of the law all the way, so as not to get marked down.

He said in cup games that wouldn’t be the case. And there was just a general acceptance amongst referees that they let more go and were more lenient with the cards, as a result.

But I’ll reiterate, I have no idea if any of that is actually true. Although all the evidence seems to suggest it might well be.
 
Taylor clearly was instructed to show no yellows as FA cup is THE traditional cup of gentlemen playing fairplay. Sports politics. IMO.
 
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