Anthony Taylor appointed ref for Chelsea

[Mike N]

He did well to resist his instinctive movement for his red card when Sergio got blocked. We already know it's all ego for refs, but he'lll be annoyed about that when he's watching MOTD.

 

[manchester blue]

I fully understand why some blues want to give up in the face of blatant corruption, but by doing that you are simply helping the premier league, UEFA et al in putting City back in their box.

The irony is that since City have come back on the scene and broken the hegemony of the big four the Premier League has gone from strength to strength. We have been nothing but good for the premier league.

That said, yesterday was an absolute disgrace and the fact that Sky steadfastly refused to replay a blatant penalty decision shows that they are all complicit.

It's obvious that a local referee should not referee a local team so he should never even have been appointed. Still trying to calm down today.

Can you imagine if Chelsea were on the end of everyone of those decisions? A referee from Manchester giving City everything. What would Chelsea say? Whatever they say would be justified. He actually should not referee anywhere because he is bent but it's a ridiculous appointment on location alone to appoint him to referee either Manchester club. Even if he were honest he would be on a hiding.

 

[Harvster]

Unbelievably he was actually going to only book Luiz in the Aguero incident.
The red card lives in his shirt, but he was aiming for his shorts pocket

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Don't miss him too much. He was on bt yesterday saying that Taylor had a good game and got everything right. Twat

That doesn't surprise me at all. I have seen him a few times in the past on BT where he says a ref has made the right call when quite obviously he hasn't. It's why I genuinely fear that when/if they bring in video replays to assist refs during matches, it will solve nothing because you are always going to have some utter twat in the stands making the final decision and his agenda is going to be more or less the same as the utter twat on the pitch.

 

[Blue Mooner]

The reality was for the Luiz incident he didn't even make a decision, if he deemed it no foul then it was a booking for Aguero for diving. As it was, doing nothing, meant he didn't see 'any' incident which when you consider 55,000 people were on their feet screaming for a sending off was ridiculous.

It's every big game, the three yards offside non decision against Spurs, the hitting Sterlings back penalty decision against Spurs and now the Chelsea litany of decisions.

This league is hard enough against the top teams when all things are equal but when you have a referee doing everything in his power to help the opposition that is a huge mountain to climb.

 

[give it to gordon]

perhaps peg had a point when he questioned was it right that taylor should have ref'd the lpool v scum game ...........i really dont see how a manchester ref can ref any North west games.

perhaps ref's from another country is the way forward

 

[Mancini Manus Domini]

That doesn't surprise me at all. I have seen him a few times in the past on BT where he says a ref has made the right call when quite obviously he hasn't. It's why I genuinely fear that when/if they bring in video replays to assist refs during matches, it will solve nothing because you are always going to have some utter twat in the stands making the final decision and his agenda is going to be more or less the same as the utter twat on the pitch.

Which is why need foriegn officials as well as technology. It worked perfectly fine at Twickenham yesterday.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Has anyone watched back the incident in the second half where Navas was claiming for a pen for a handball and then within a second or two went down in the box under a challenge. When he went down it looked a decent shout for a pen to me from where I was sat but not seen it mentioned since.

 

[blueinsa]

Someone posted it up last night but its got lost in all the furore but had kevin smashed it in instead of hitting the bar, the linesman had incorrectly flagged it up as offside despite him being a yard on so they would have chalked that off as well pmsl.

Its just not funny anymore!

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Which is why need foriegn officials as well as technology. It worked perfectly fine at Twickenham yesterday.

You know, just after I posted that I did think that the answer would be to have foreign refs (preferably who have never met the English refs and therefore don't have any personal reason to want to back their decisions up) to do the technology bit in the stands. Regardless of whether we believe there is an agenda specifically against City or not, it always strikes me that Webb is incredibly reluctant to point out that any English ref has got a decision wrong. I assume it's because they are all in it together, as it were. He's much more honest when he reviews decisions of the foreign refs on a European night IMO.