Referees’ Performances | 2024/2025

SebastianBlue said:
Because I think officials are not above showing mercy; in this case, for both Ipswich and the referee (for making such a bad decision, in a long line of ones), even though they shouldn’t be doing that at this level.
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And if we lose the league on goal difference?

Fuck mercy. They are there to apply the rules.
 
moomba said:
And if we lose the league on goal difference?

Fuck mercy. They are there to apply the rules.
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They should do of course but they objectively don't. How many times have we been 5/6-0 up and used all subs and the referee has given 3 minutes added on? In Europe it's even worse, sometimes they don't even bother with added time. Mercy rules.

Feeling sorry for the opposition is engrained in how referees operate in this sport. And it's permitted and even encouraged in the name of making things more competitive.
 
halfcenturyup said:
:) Well, possibly. But by losing control, I mean losing control of the players and that has happened before plenty of times with other referees. I don't mean making decisions one set of supporters doesn't like. Tbh, I didn't get the impression he was treating one side differently to the other. I suppose others will say he was equally as bad for both teams. I am feeling generous tonight.

Anyway, it's not really that important to me but if someone asked me how he was, I would say he was OK.
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You, feeling generous?

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Refereeing stats spreadsheet starting to take shape.

Of note so far after 2 games:

The ratio of fouls to bookings is looking stacked against City. As a percentage, v Chelsea it was 8.3% to 12.5% against City.
Today it was 20% to 50% against City.

Opposition players are being allowed more fouls before being booked. Dias was first foul, and Jack was for simulation which was bollocks.

They were denied a penalty though, which I though should have been given.
 
Eccles Blue said:
The number of times I shouted to leave our players alone was unbelievable today.
The Ipswich number 19 was very lucky I couldn’t get at him for his foul on John Stones because although I’m not violet I would have given him a tongue lashing and a half for that one alone. Both the player and the referee. I hadn’t realised until I read it higher up in this thread that he was a last minute replacement so I’ll give him a little bit of slack. But he was rubbish.
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What do you normally charge?
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Refereeing stats spreadsheet starting to take shape.

Of note so far after 2 games:

The ratio of fouls to bookings is looking stacked against City. As a percentage, v Chelsea it was 8.3% to 12.5% against City.
Today it was 20% to 50% against City.

Opposition players are being allowed more fouls before being booked. Dias was first foul, and Jack was for simulation which was bollocks.

They were denied a penalty though, which I though should have been given.
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You’ve done a spread sheet ?
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Refereeing stats spreadsheet starting to take shape.

Of note so far after 2 games:

The ratio of fouls to bookings is looking stacked against City. As a percentage, v Chelsea it was 8.3% to 12.5% against City.
Today it was 20% to 50% against City.

Opposition players are being allowed more fouls before being booked. Dias was first foul, and Jack was for simulation which was bollocks.

They were denied a penalty though, which I though should have been given.
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Dias’s was a pretty obvious yellow card though. Grealish I thought was harsh but could see why he thought it was a dive.

Didn’t think he was too bad today.
 
meltonblue said:
Dias’s was a pretty obvious yellow card though. Grealish I thought was harsh but could see why he thought it was a dive.

Didn’t think he was too bad today.
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I bet a pound sterling to a pound of tripe that he doesn't book every simulation inside the area this season - reserved for one of the home players at The Etihad! That would bring a wee chuckle from his PiGMOL employers.
 
Surprised the penalty got given. Not because it wasn't obvious, just expected their new initiative of leaving it to the refs more would be overly enforced and screw us out of a pen.

The problem with that is refs now don't make a decision because they can have var do it for them. That logic is fine, i've bo real issue with that but to then say var will get involved less just means their going to make less decisions than they would without var and then var doesn't intervene.

No idea why he needed what must have been a dozen views on the screen to give it, the one replay they showed on the screen was as conclusive as you could want. Took minutes to make a decision that should have taken seconds.

That aside I don't think he was as bad as is being suggested. Come may, if we were to rank all the refs performances over the season, I suspect that performance will sit someway up the list. We will get far worse than that. Definitely says more about the state of refs but that's sadly the reality we have to put up with.
 
Gray said:
Was the whistler today a replacement, I didn’t have a clue who he was?
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The BBC used to list the referee after the line ups on their Scores 'n Fixtures page. Then they stopped doing it but today I noticed that they had No 1 Ass Ref, No 2 Ass ref, Fourth Official, 'n VAR Wallah, but no ref's name!

Sam Allison! The first black ref since Uriah Rennie. If he's twice as good as Uriah he'll still be shit!
 
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