Referees' Performances | 2025/26

Norbiton said:
Thought it was soft at first, but seeing it again Brooks definitely keeps hold of Donnarumma's left arm while the ball is in mid-air which prevents him setting himself to jump and use both hands to deal with the cross. It's a foul.
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Yeah, its a cleverly executed foul. VAR should have chalked it off but its us, and the Alty Red was ref so it was no surprise it stood.

There's no way this is allowed to stand if its Arsenal or the scousers.
 
There was another TV angle that was only shown in the closing credits, where Brooks also pushed Donarumma after his initial grab. Both were fouls not overly surprisng it wasn’t chalked off though.
 
AlBuxton said:
After their goal, the ball was passed back to Donnnaruma, who belted it, whistle went, foul to Bournemouth, was taken from where Donnarumma had just kicked it. Ref seemed to be bollocking Gvardiol, TV missed it. Anyone know what happened?
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Their forward was chasing down the ball. Ran into Gvardiol and fell over. He tried it a few times.
 
Burtonblue said:
Stronger??
He’s a massively experienced international keeper.
He’s won the Euros and the Champions league.
He’s played at the very top level for 10 yrs.
How much exactly do you think he needs to learn about being physical?
He’s exceptionally good he is at clearing players out of the 6 yrd box but it’s a bit difficult to do that when someone’s got hold of your arm and dragging you back you know….
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Dragging his arm! Brooks is probably not even 10 stone dripping wet.
 
If x4 Bournemouth players had been holding all of Donnarumma arms and legs in same way, would they have disallowed the goal for impeding the goalkeeper or still allowed the goal? No they would have disallowed it. But it doesn't make a difference it's just x4 different deliberate with no attempt to play the ball fouls instead of x1. So still a foul in isolation.

Also if roles reversed and Bournemouth player made no attempt to play the ball and pulled a forward in the box with same action, without playing the ball and attacker does, they would give it as a foul on the attacker, so penalty. Just
imagine if the defender held the attackers calf just as he was about to shoot inside penalty area? Is that a foul.? Of
course it is. Goalkeepers are allowed to use arms and hands inside their box, why is Goalkeepers arm treated differently
to a strikers leg? There is no difference.

If City midfielder plays the ball past Bournemouth player and he makes no attempt to play the ball but wraps his arm
around the City players arm, it's a foul and a yellow card. There's no discussion as in "he needs to be stronger there",
it's just foul and a yellow card.
 
GSW Blue said:
I sometimes suspect referees change the way they referee us depending on the score. We seem to get more favourable decisions later in games when the result is almost certain. I suspect it’s an attempt by the refs to even up the stats.
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Stat padding. Happens a lot. Games over so they referee properly again. It’s their get out of jail card if and when anyone dares to say we are favoured, they can point to the fact that the stats prove we are not.
 
herrock said:
Dragging his arm! Brooks is probably not even 10 stone dripping wet.
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So what?

Do you have to be a giant to give away a foul now? As well as being Thorin fuckin Oakenshield to get one?

You do seem weirdly obsessed with physical size in relation to fouls. It is completely irrelevant.
 
flook said:
I'm not disputing the ball had been kicked, but by the time it got near donna he was free of interference. This sort of thing always provokes discussion, some think keepers are over protected, others think they should get more protection. It's a subjective call at the end of the day. The way I look at things is would I be pissed if roles were reversed? ie our goal disallowed for that "foul". In this case you bet I would
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It’s a definite foul but it’s debatable whether VAr could overrule Taylor. I think that should have happened but we won anyway
 
asahartford1 said:
In Europe and in next years World Cup it is disallowed.

But in PL, fuelled by thick pundits chanting "Keepers must be stronger"
Refereeing is different.
The result is a scrum at every corner, manufactured by our very own piGMOl
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The Prem interpretation could hand the title to Arsenal. We have to be a lot better than them giving the refs are playing into the Gooners hands
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
We won the game by a 2-goal margin but we're still fuming about the referee's performance - That's how bad he was.
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The **** couldn't wait to book Foden for a nothing block yet when Nunes got done over the ball not even a talking to.
I don't usually moan about refs but fuck me he was wank yesterday
 
Burtonblue said:
I am fully grown up thanks.
I was right behind the goal and had a brilliant view of Gigio being pulled off balance. Do you honestly believe that he wouldn’t have managed to get off the ground otherwise??? The guy is fucking enormous and built like a brick shithouse.
He’s plenty strong enough trust me.
He was fouled.
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He was, but he needs to be stronger and not allow some little shit to be pulling him
 
Tim of the Oak said:
It’s a definite foul but it’s debatable whether VAr could overrule Taylor. I think that should have happened but we won anyway
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There is absolutely no doubt that VAR should have intervened in this instance and recommended a review with a view to disallowing the goal. Here is the extract from The Laws of the Game:

"The categories of decision/incident which may be reviewed in the event of a potential ‘clear and obvious error’ or ‘serious missed incident’ are:

a. Goal/no goal

attacking team offence in the build-up to or scoring of the goal (handball, foul, offside etc.)"

This was a foul on the defending goalkeeper, with the ball in play, and in the build up to a goal. It was disguised from Taylor's sight, so VAR should have stepped in.

Donnarumma should have been stronger. The ball wasn't even near him you might argue; you don't penalise off the ball fouls. That's just nonsense propagated by anti-City media and pundits. Look at Foden's caution. Taylor stopped play and rightly cautioned Foden for an off the ball incident of pulling, whilst Bournemouth were progressing in possession of the ball. One holding incident was seen and penalised. I've holding incident was not seen and it led to a goal. If seen, it should have been penalised too.

Let's hope PGMOL offer an explanation and an apology, regardless of the outcome of the game. They made a mistake last week and we lost points as a consequence.
 
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