Referees' Performances | 2025/26

bluetonium said:
Not sure who the official was today, but he didn't have a good one, did he? I had high hopes after the carded that ex-rag early on, but he let similar challenges by both sides, including one by the same player, go without even a whistle.

Missed a few fouls, including one on Gonzalez that resulted in a break away and Everton's best chance, seemed ok with Savinho being bear-hugged for ninety minutes, and found new and inventive ways to block off city shots and passes by putting his own body on the line. I know Savinho can be a little delicate at times, but genuinely surprised he managed to keep himself clothed today. If he hadn't of done, I would have expected Sav to have got the card for being de-robed on the field of play!

But I think the clear winner has to be, and var has to take some credit here also, allowing Tarkovski to place both his hands around Kovacic's neck at a corner on 93 minutes, not his shoulders even, and push down for leverage. I mean, that's safe, right? Nothing to see here!
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Tony Harrington he’s consistently useless
 
Garner should have gone for two yellows, missed numerous shirt pulls, pushes and the ridiculous grappling at corners. At times he was Everton’s best defender, the way he positioned himself to block of passing lanes at on one occasion a shot was excellent. Must be in line for a call up to the full England squad in the next international break.
 
Gordyola said:
Mike Dean was the 93:20 ref
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Mike Dean is a jumped up arrogant scouse prick. I had the misfortune to see him at his Spanish holiday home at a golf resort in Murcia. It was October international break in 2019 and he was on a week off ( he obviously wasn't picked to ref an international that week...no surprises there then). He was strutting around like he owned the fucking place. Saw him in the bar a few times with his entourage of scouse hangers on giving it Billy big bollocks. I think it was Scotland v Norway on the tv one night and a contentious penalty was given. Someone asked Dean what his thoughts on the dodgy pen was, he looked at the ref on the telly and gave the rather curt reply " he's the ref, not me".... and that was that! No further engagement just a sneering look at the poor bloke who had the audacity to approach him with a question . The polite punter who was probably hoping for a bit of professional insight from a premier league referee was made to look very small by that wanker Dean who was obviously showing off in front of his equally obnoxious scouse mates. What a ****.
 
Today's ref also fell for every single Scouse 'injury'.

As soon as they got away with it 2 mins in they continued doing it because he was too weak to do owt about it.

Along with the shithousing Everton coach kicking another ball onto the pitch 3 times early on when we tried to take quick throws near their dugout.
 
bluetonium said:
Not sure who the official was today, but he didn't have a good one, did he? I had high hopes after the carded that ex-rag early on, but he let similar challenges by both sides, including one by the same player, go without even a whistle.

Missed a few fouls, including one on Gonzalez that resulted in a break away and Everton's best chance, seemed ok with Savinho being bear-hugged for ninety minutes, and found new and inventive ways to block off city shots and passes by putting his own body on the line. I know Savinho can be a little delicate at times, but genuinely surprised he managed to keep himself clothed today. If he hadn't of done, I would have expected Sav to have got the card for being de-robed on the field of play!

But I think the clear winner has to be, and var has to take some credit here also, allowing Tarkovski to place both his hands around Kovacic's neck at a corner on 93 minutes, not his shoulders even, and push down for leverage. I mean, that's safe, right? Nothing to see here!
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I have absolutely no idea what constitues a foul anymore. Not only does the consistancy vary between each referee but oftentimes the same type of challenge in a single match can provide different outcomes with some being penalised and others let go without punishment or indication of "play on".
 
JRockBlues said:
I have absolutely no idea what constitues a foul anymore. Not only does the consistancy vary between each referee but oftentimes the same type of challenge in a single match can provide different outcomes with some being penalised and others let go without punishment or indication of "play on".
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It appears strangling on a corner isn’t a foul.
 
Keith Moon said:
That Baconface wanted the match to be blown off at full time when they were 4–1 down at home in a derby with one man sent off seems highly likely to me. It took a year before he was allowed to referee United again. True or not, if he had listened to Fergie and blown the whistle early, we wouldn’t have won the league on goal difference.
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We won the league with +64 the Rags ended with +56 so a couple of goals less would not have mattered at all. Clattenburg had fuck all to do with us winning the league.
 
Gray said:
We won the league with +64 the Rags ended with +56 so a couple of goals less would not have mattered at all. Clattenburg had fuck all to do with us winning the league.
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Yes. Given that there's at least 1 minute injury time in every game, we'd have won 5-1 anyway, so, even if 3 minutes injury time was excessive, (the sixth goal being at 90+3), which it wasn't as there was a sending-off, there would have been a 2-goal swing at worst.
 
Gordyola said:
Tony Harrington he’s consistently useless
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Referees are rarely consistent even when they are useless. i didn't clock the ref who did the kids' game on Friday but the Saturday and Sunday versions were what could only be described as intermittently blind or just plain straightforward partial. Blatant foul on Yui that gifted NUFC their equalizer. I can't think for the whole of a nano-second that had Greenwood perpetrated that 'tackle' on a Magpie the ref would not have blown for a free kick.
 
I thought his display was a lot better than most other referees we've had over the years. It is, however, a very low bar.
I'd certainly settle for a similar performance when we go to Klanfield because they really are the pits.
 
Oliver for Villa away, lets see if he refs as he did for the RyanAir derby, the Diallo handball, 1 card in a total of 22 fouls and allowed lots of time wasting without bookings etc.
Of course Rags get Taylor and Dippers Hooper
 
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