Ref for Chelsea

[hertsblue]

I think our approach of being respectful to the officials is working against us. I mean how often do you see other teams in the refs face, moaning and bitching throughout the game to the ref, going down without being touched etc. We try and play the game in a sporting manor, which I applaud, but instead of working with the officials and them respecting us for making their jobs easier, we are now seen by the officials as an easy target, especially away from home when they don't want to upset the locals and know they can unfairly not give us a penalty, give a soft freekick to the opposition because we wont be in the faces.
I don't want us to become like a lot of the other teams but we may have to as its clearly not working at the moment. I have never seen a team (us) have 70%-80% of the ball in games yet despite having the ball we have double the amount of fouls than the opposition and even last season (and this season is worse) we seem to get really soft yellows, especially when you see how often the other team is fouling us and nothing given.

 

[jollylescott]

After 5 games we already have 2 players on 3 yellows (Yaya and Fernandinho) and 5 players on 2 yellows (Merlin, Vinny, Zab, Demichelis and Fernando).

This is definitely a worrying trend. I may be watching with blue tinted glasses, but I don't see us at all as a dirty team.

A good example was the punishment by Dean for Fernan's first tackle of the game. Dean went straight for the yellow when normally you would expect a word of warning.

 

[BlueTony]

Mike Dean the comedy ref. Has anybody noticed how much he looks like Jasper carrot these days?

Simple fact of the matter is he is either a) incompetent or b) corrupt and no I do not accept c ) human and can make mistakes ( mistakes by their nature are random and should even out over a game).

Fabregas by my count (and I have not watched the whole thing again) 4 bookable fouls, no booking. Costa repeated fouls on Kompany (particularly that sequence they showed on MOTD {and praised as a good contest which it was, but only one player was a cheating cnut } no booking for persistent fouling) Zabba first booking, rent boy runs into his leg and falls over, should be a yellow to the rent boy (Costa again? like I said not watched it again {threat of divorce or at least no sex for ages)} ,

2 Obvious penalties denied although I must admit I thought the one on Yaya a bit soft until I saw the replay. Pab Zab's tweet was spot on, the instructions to refs are if a player raises his hands it is a straight red card.

I wish the supposed experts on MOTD would actually learn the current rules, Jimmy Floyd Haiselbaink (sp) "I'm not having that it was only for about a second and Zabaletta put his hands on him first". Listen thicko the instruction from the FA says that any player who raises his hands should receive a straight red card (fucked that one up then didn't you Dean?) and it was obvious that Zabaletta was trying to restrain Costa in the first place (like he did after the serial fouls by Costa on Kompany). When he let go Costa went for his throat. Red card 3 match ban for being a cnut. If I only e.g. shoot Ronaldo for a second is it OK?

The only 2 bookable offences in the whole game for me were Zabaletta's second on Costa and Schurles on Kolarov (I think, like I said not watched it over again). that was downright nasty and a straight red IMO will the FA retrospectively ban Schurle and Costa,? I am not holding my breath..

 

[SuperSilva]

Mike Dean the comedy ref. Has anybody noticed how much he looks like Jasper carrot these days?

Simple fact of the matter is he is either a) incompetent or b) corrupt and no I do not accept c ) human and can make mistakes ( mistakes by their nature are random and should even out over a game).

Fabregas by my count (and I have not watched the whole thing again) 4 bookable fouls, no booking. Costa repeated fouls on Kompany (particularly that sequence they showed on MOTD {and praised as a good contest which it was, but only one player was a cheating cnut } no booking for persistent fouling) Zabba first booking, rent boy runs into his leg and falls over, should be a yellow to the rent boy (Costa again? like I said not watched it again {threat of divorce or at least no sex for ages)} ,

2 Obvious penalties denied although I must admit I thought the one on Yaya a bit soft until I saw the replay. Pab Zab's tweet was spot on, the instructions to refs are if a player raises his hands it is a straight red card.

I wish the supposed experts on MOTD would actually learn the current rules, Jimmy Floyd Haiselbaink (sp) "I'm not having that it was only for about a second and Zabaletta put his hands on him first". Listen thicko the instruction from the FA says that any player who raises his hands should receive a straight red card (fucked that one up then didn't you Dean?) and it was obvious that Zabaletta was trying to restrain Costa in the first place (like he did after the serial fouls by Costa on Kompany). When he let go Costa went for his throat. Red card 3 match ban for being a cnut. If I only e.g. shoot Ronaldo for a second is it OK?

The only 2 bookable offences in the whole game for me were Zabaletta's second on Costa and Schurles on Kolarov (I think, like I said not watched it over again). that was downright nasty and a straight red IMO will the FA retrospectively ban Schurle and Costa,? I am not holding my breath..

couldn't agree more...

 

[Bozzie]

I think our approach of being respectful to the officials is working against us. I mean how often do you see other teams in the refs face, moaning and bitching throughout the game to the ref, going down without being touched etc. We try and play the game in a sporting manor, which I applaud, but instead of working with the officials and them respecting us for making their jobs easier, we are now seen by the officials as an easy target, especially away from home when they don't want to upset the locals and know they can unfairly not give us a penalty, give a soft freekick to the opposition because we wont be in the faces.
I don't want us to become like a lot of the other teams but we may have to as its clearly not working at the moment. I have never seen a team (us) have 70%-80% of the ball in games yet despite having the ball we have double the amount of fouls than the opposition and even last season (and this season is worse) we seem to get really soft yellows, especially when you see how often the other team is fouling us and nothing given.

City v Stoke
Possession 72% Fouls: City 14 Stoke 5

This is Stoke, defending for the entire game against the Premier League champions, at The Etihad and City (apparently) commit 3 times as many fouls as they do. Beyond explanation other than Lee Mason refereeing.

 

[The Chief]

I think our approach of being respectful to the officials is working against us. I mean how often do you see other teams in the refs face, moaning and bitching throughout the game to the ref, going down without being touched etc. We try and play the game in a sporting manor, which I applaud, but instead of working with the officials and them respecting us for making their jobs easier, we are now seen by the officials as an easy target, especially away from home when they don't want to upset the locals and know they can unfairly not give us a penalty, give a soft freekick to the opposition because we wont be in the faces.
I don't want us to become like a lot of the other teams but we may have to as its clearly not working at the moment. I have never seen a team (us) have 70%-80% of the ball in games yet despite having the ball we have double the amount of fouls than the opposition and even last season (and this season is worse) we seem to get really soft yellows, especially when you see how often the other team is fouling us and nothing given.

Hate to say it but I agree with this. We're like a bloody doormat and get walked all other with barely a murmur.

Yet another garbage refereeing performance and I don't think we can rely on anyone to officiate our games well. The inconsistencies with yellow cards was a big annoyance but City don't help themselves with some of them... Fernandinho needs to cut out his token yellow's for pointless fouls (we're almost always about to win the ball back or the opponent's going nowhere), whilst Silva picked up a daft one yesterday too.

 

[the god Gerry Gow]

Mike Dean the comedy ref. Has anybody noticed how much he looks like Jasper carrot these days?

Simple fact of the matter is he is either a) incompetent or b) corrupt and no I do not accept c ) human and can make mistakes ( mistakes by their nature are random and should even out over a game).

Fabregas by my count (and I have not watched the whole thing again) 4 bookable fouls, no booking. Costa repeated fouls on Kompany (particularly that sequence they showed on MOTD {and praised as a good contest which it was, but only one player was a cheating cnut } no booking for persistent fouling) Zabba first booking, rent boy runs into his leg and falls over, should be a yellow to the rent boy (Costa again? like I said not watched it again {threat of divorce or at least no sex for ages)} ,

2 Obvious penalties denied although I must admit I thought the one on Yaya a bit soft until I saw the replay. Pab Zab's tweet was spot on, the instructions to refs are if a player raises his hands it is a straight red card.

I wish the supposed experts on MOTD would actually learn the current rules, Jimmy Floyd Haiselbaink (sp) "I'm not having that it was only for about a second and Zabaletta put his hands on him first". Listen thicko the instruction from the FA says that any player who raises his hands should receive a straight red card (fucked that one up then didn't you Dean?) and it was obvious that Zabaletta was trying to restrain Costa in the first place (like he did after the serial fouls by Costa on Kompany). When he let go Costa went for his throat. Red card 3 match ban for being a cnut. If I only e.g. shoot Ronaldo for a second is it OK?

The only 2 bookable offences in the whole game for me were Zabaletta's second on Costa and Schurles on Kolarov (I think, like I said not watched it over again). that was downright nasty and a straight red IMO will the FA retrospectively ban Schurle and Costa,? I am not holding my breath..

The Schurle tackle was a straight ref imo, was a horrendous tackle.

Dean also went to his pocket to book a Chelsea player but when he saw who it was changed his mind (second half in front of Colin Bell stand).

These two incidents coupled with a failure to apply the same standards in relation to yellows to both sides make me question how Dean ref'd this game