bluetonium
Well-Known Member
He was shocking. The grealish booking, he was literally pushed by one everton player into another, and gets a card for it. Prick of a ref. I'll give him a mark for booking Pickford for being a tit at the penalty, but he still allowed him a good 60 seconds per goal kick from minute one. I honestly don't know why Pickford got into football, he spends most of his professional career avoiding actually playing the game
The foul on Alvarez was nasty, and there were a few where he either lost control of the game, or decided everton can step it up in terms of physicality, unpunished. It nearly became a cage match at one point. But you just know, if city retaliate, out come the cards. One foul one booking for us, whereas everton were playing tag team wrestling with bookings seemingly done on a tombola system.
Also completely failed to deal with the everton staff member being arsey over returning he ball and winding grealish up, although maybe that's on the 4th official.
Then there is that offside call leading to stone's injury. Ok, I get the instruction is to hold off flagging and that I'm more salty because this time it led to an injury for one of ours, but surely the linesman can see he's clearly offside so has a duty to flag? It's not as if it was a close call..
Plus, did you notice the ref also blew for half time whilst the ball was out of play? I mean, he didn't blow when the ball went out of play, he waited until the ball has been retrieved, but not long enough for play to restart, then blew. I can only assume he got today's job confused with his other job as twatty the clown, available for hire for parties, work events and all PGMOL meetings.
He also suffers from what I'm now calling 'Its city so play on syndrome ', where he's happy to not give a foul for us , but recognises it is a foul and waves play on, even when we have absolutely zero advantage and are under huge pressure headed back towards our own goal being closed down, because city 'like to play football', are known to be hugely creative and might find a way through it, so they probably don't want a free kick. The syndrome is often paired with allowing precisely 0.5 seconds to pull a free kick back for city if the phase of play ends, compared to upwards of 2 minutes for our opponent.
Anyway, he was awful but we overcame. Maybe now they'll change the rule on when you can flag for offside.
I also just rewatched the penalty. Dyche is a douche. Hits his hands, which are raised, and stops a goal bound attempt. It's a penalty under any law and Sean Dyche is a berk playing the 'its not fair' card to deflect from his own teams failings.
The foul on Alvarez was nasty, and there were a few where he either lost control of the game, or decided everton can step it up in terms of physicality, unpunished. It nearly became a cage match at one point. But you just know, if city retaliate, out come the cards. One foul one booking for us, whereas everton were playing tag team wrestling with bookings seemingly done on a tombola system.
Also completely failed to deal with the everton staff member being arsey over returning he ball and winding grealish up, although maybe that's on the 4th official.
Then there is that offside call leading to stone's injury. Ok, I get the instruction is to hold off flagging and that I'm more salty because this time it led to an injury for one of ours, but surely the linesman can see he's clearly offside so has a duty to flag? It's not as if it was a close call..
Plus, did you notice the ref also blew for half time whilst the ball was out of play? I mean, he didn't blow when the ball went out of play, he waited until the ball has been retrieved, but not long enough for play to restart, then blew. I can only assume he got today's job confused with his other job as twatty the clown, available for hire for parties, work events and all PGMOL meetings.
He also suffers from what I'm now calling 'Its city so play on syndrome ', where he's happy to not give a foul for us , but recognises it is a foul and waves play on, even when we have absolutely zero advantage and are under huge pressure headed back towards our own goal being closed down, because city 'like to play football', are known to be hugely creative and might find a way through it, so they probably don't want a free kick. The syndrome is often paired with allowing precisely 0.5 seconds to pull a free kick back for city if the phase of play ends, compared to upwards of 2 minutes for our opponent.
Anyway, he was awful but we overcame. Maybe now they'll change the rule on when you can flag for offside.
I also just rewatched the penalty. Dyche is a douche. Hits his hands, which are raised, and stops a goal bound attempt. It's a penalty under any law and Sean Dyche is a berk playing the 'its not fair' card to deflect from his own teams failings.
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