Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

Two great teams, football of the highest quality, 5 great goals and refereeing of disgraceful quality.

 

[city2]

Thought this referee has been poor each time we have had him to be honest.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Yeah, maybe so, but it was never going to be loads. We get less because we don’t collapse for team talks every few minutes.

Ultimately worked in our favour anyway.

If I had to guess... my best explanation is thus:

The 4th official is monitoring the total time the ball is in-play rather than doing what most people assume which is totting up excessive stoppages. If it drops below a certain "standard" then minutes get added. Historically we are pretty much always the team with the largest amount of time with the ball in-play because we can keep the ball for 5-10 minutes at a time. Therefore, even when teams time-waste against us (which Dubravka definitely did a fair amount of today) we still end up with more in-play time than most other teams.

The only basis for this was the fact that PGMOL specifically said at the start of the season that their objective was to increase the average amount of in-play time in games.

 

[numanx]

The level of referees in the Premier League is not the same as the level of the players. This one was very poor and gave yellow to City-players, while for the same fouls he forgot to book the Newcastle-players.

 

[Northblue]

Just before the early offside that ended up injuring Eddie - there was a free kick given to Newcastle, I was half watching at that point but does anybody know what it was for?

 

[ancoats]

The referee today was clueless, Please don't try and say VAR is not in full control of the game, Because the Referee blew his whistle when Newcastle thought they had won a Pen for handball, For one dark moment, I thought here we go, He's going to the monitor and VAR was going to cheat us out of the 3 points.

They even turned down a City Pen shout for handball and TNT never showed it on a replay,
Again So poor or are they told to not give us anything and try and unsettle the players? The yellow card for Silva was a joke and plain cheating by the Officials and the Referee,The referee was not giving him a card until he got VAR in his ear,

The Sweet feeling of winning and beating the cheating system to boot

 

[HypnoticBlue]

2 words - F***** Tosser.

 

[tommybooth]

I thought he had an excellent game, Steve the Wonder.

 

[BossHog]

Just before the early offside that ended up injuring Eddie - there was a free kick given to Newcastle, I was half watching at that point but does anybody know what it was for?

Pretty sure it was for offside.

 

[TrentGrisham]

I usually stay out of here, but man... He had a rough game. Not booking Burn(or was it Longstaff?) for that clear-as-day tactical foul on Rodri was shocking. You just fucking knew Bernardo was going to get carded for the same thing when it happened. Except that one was 30 yards further away from the goal than where ours occurred. Also didn't play advantage on a pretty clear advantageous counter we were on.

In their defense, at what point do we stop blaming the officials and direct more blame at Howard Webb?!