Andy Madley performance

[cleavers]

He gave a performance the Premier league would have been proud off done exactly as he was told.

Just said the same in the MoTM thread, he'll be in garth crooked team of the weak. (Spelling mistakes fully intended.)

 

[Champions again in 2012]

A really poor game ruined by a shocking referee

 

[johnevans]

Worst one was Gueye being subbed and the referee dropping the ball to Pickford completely unaware of Gueye wasting time by taking 40 seconds to walk off the pitch. Then jogged pretty slow back to Pickford to re-drop it. Unbelievably shit really, unacceptably

That incident was the bottom of the barrel as far as that referee today was concerned. Completely out of his depth from minute one.

As many others on here have pointed out, he made so many errors (including some that should have gone Everton's way) it was astonishing to witness.

And as others have also said, the referee's performance (or Everton’s dreadful tactics/game plan) can't be used by us to hide behind. We were garbage on and off the pitch, for sure.

Since the Old Man first took me to Maine Road In 1959 I've seen some doozies, some wrong 'uns among the men in black. But the clown in the middle today didn't just give the worst refereeing performance I've ever seen, he almost lost control of the players. Had the game boiled over at some point, I wouldn't have been surprised. And somebody could have been seriously injured.

Whoever's assessing his performance today should be recommending he makes a swift return to lower leagues until he can prove he's fit to operate at the elite level.

As for City, we go again, try to make up the lost ground and never give in. That's 'never' as in 'ever'..

 

[MrCheeseGrater]

Shades of Andre Marriner when we lost to Palace last season.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Sounds as if he was worse than Clattenberg!!!

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Allowed Everton to ruin the game, a Sunday league ref

He's not that good .

 

[Winchester]

Sounds as if he was worse than Clattenberg!!!

Impossible lol

 

[berryblue]

We can moan and complain about time wasting as much as we want but the fact is referees couldn't give a monkeys. FA were asked if they would follow the pattern on time keeping set out in the Qatar World Cup and answered with a resounding NO. A warning for the future: Leeds, Wimbledon and 1 or 2 others used these tactics in the 80s and almost destroyed the Football League with crowds dropping 30/40%. People will walk away from the game as before. Don't hold your breath tho, those in charge are too busy counting the money.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Worst one was Gueye being subbed and the referee dropping the ball to Pickford completely unaware of Gueye wasting time by taking 40 seconds to walk off the pitch. Then jogged pretty slow back to Pickford to re-drop it. Unbelievably shit really, unacceptably

What was even worse about that situation was having us all sat there for 8-10 minutes while the linesman sorted his equipment out, and in all that time the Everton sub was waiting to come on, Madley wanted to restart & then they made the sub wasting another 30seconds, that proper boiled my swede! If there’s some rule that there can’t be a sub during a suspension of play then it wants ripping up

 

[BillCarlisle]

Well, I couldn't get to the game today and from what I've read on here it sounds like I dodged a bullet. It's a fact that the standard of refereeing in the PL is ruining the beautiful game. Trouble is, the powers that be don't give a shit.