Referees' Performances | 2025/26

Please can we have a performance from the ref where everyone disagrees with everything he does every week? Made such a difference to the atmosphere in the first half!

When he stopped making decisions everyone disagreed with in the second half the atmosphere went back to being bobbins again.
 
Taylor should have put on one of his old united shirts today and that would have been one of his few fair decisions. At least the players would know where they stand.
 
waspish said:
Guarantee if that happens next week to the Liverpool goalie the referee or the bloke in var would say it was a foul! He will say the player interlocked the goalies arm stopping him jumping properly! For me it’s was 100% a foul! Pep is right when he says referees are so so brave at the Etihad so brave! In other words pep saying at an Anfield at the rags or at Arsenal that would be blown for a foul every day of the week!
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Yes exactly. Remember when the Dias goal was ruled out against LiVARpool for a non existent foul on the goalie?
 
Just seen the Bournemouth goal

WTF... Are you allowed to wrap your arms round a keepers arms stopping him from moving these days !!!???
 
I don't think it's the most blatant foul ever, and Donnarumma needs to be stronger there, but you see keepers protected in this context so often, except when it's us.

Personally, the thing that pisses me off is that you're allowed to have a player whose only job is to barge into the keeper or grab his arm, or whatever, and it's considered fair game, when it would be a foul anywhere else on the pitch (as Foden found out). If you jump into someone who's going for a header, even just a nudge, and don't challenge for the ball, it's a foul. But do the same thing to a keeper at a corner, and it's entirely up to the discretion of the ref. When people started similar things to the wall at free kicks, they came up with a rule to stop it. There are so many blatant fouls that happen from corners and free kicks these days that don't get called because they happen early enough to prevent a player from getting to the ball. The other new one is pushing a wide player backwards to make your central players onside. How is that not blatantly a foul? It's not American fucking football.
 
I'm normally in the stand for home games, noy today, and I can't stand Taylor, but I thought he got most things right apart from a couple of fouls he didn't give us. Had I been there today, I'd have probably been the same as the crowd.

Their goal, it is a foul but he let Dona's arm go before the ball came in, and there was no way he could see it anyway. VAR advised him exactly what happened.

The foulon NOR was a foul, and would be a straight red if given, he bottled that decision, but he would most likely have had it over turned due to offside by NOR, though we never got a replay of that.

He was shit second half, because he stopped doing anything for either side.

We've had worse injustices from him.
 
skillman said:
Fucking embarrassment.

I quite enjoy it when referees have overtly shit games because it causes an atmosphere.

But that today was taking the piss. I’m sure not letting us take the corner at the end of the first half was his ego after getting shit from the fans.
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Yeah, straight from the Clive Thomas school of reffing. He would dearly have loved for the corner to be taken, City to score, and then he would hold up his whistle, the wanker, and inform the world that he had blown for HT just before the ball crossed the line.
 
I particularly liked the free kick he gave for a foul on Guardiol in the second half when the ball was back at Donnarumma’s feet. A blatant easy one to level up the stats. Of course the only place the free kick could go was back to Donnarumma.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Didn't we have a Laporte goal ruled out for breathing on Allisson a couple of seasons back.

Question: What's the difference between Taylors performance today and the contents I last flushed out of the downstairs toilet at Ewing Towers.

Answer: Yeah, ok, it's an easy one. The downstairs toilet has ne'er been provided with a whistle.
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Dias goal disallowed
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Didn't we have a Laporte goal ruled out for breathing on Allisson a couple of seasons back.
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The difference being that Allisson threw himself to the ground and the entire Liverpool team began haranguing the ref.
The mistake we made was Donnarumma and the rest of the team tried to carry on playing, if Donnarumma had theatrically thrown himself to the floor anf the rest of the teams topped playing then the VAR would have got involved.
Welcome to the new 'more physical' Premier League, where the VAR-reliant referees will only make decisions if players dive, cheat and whinge. This is the brave new world of VAR; where cheats prosper and trying to play honestly puts you at a disadvantage.
 
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