Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

[Ric]

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.

Yeah, as soon as Bobb scored I was pretty glad it was only 3 minutes!

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Fuck you!

 

[Axel Freed]

The booking was a joke, but there weren’t many stoppages in the second half, were there? Can’t remember the physios coming on.

3 subs, a booking and a goal. 30 seconds for each.

Just for example …… a game where Arsenal had equalised and were all over their tiring opponents as 90 mins was reached ….. how many minutes you reckon would be added on ? 6 at a bare minimum would be a safe bet regardless of how the 2nd half had panned out.

The same would apply to the dippers.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Just for example …… a game where Arsenal had equalised and were all over their tiring opponents as 90 mins was reached ….. how many minutes you reckon would be added on ? 6 at a bare minimum would be a safe bet regardless of how the 2nd half had panned out.

The same would apply to the dippers.

Arsenal roll around on the floor after every defensive corner and collapse if touched in a tackle. Hence they get more time. It disrupts the flow of the game, so isn’t totally beneficial for them.

I’m glad that we don’t use those tactics and we seem to do okay without them.

 

[Blue Mist]

No one can defend what happened today. Some will try, even on here but it was a total disgrace.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

No one can defend what happened today. Some will try, even on here but it was a total disgrace.

It’s not a disgrace, he hasn’t affected the result in any way. He should have booked a couple more of their players, granted.

I’m not sure Guimares was a second yellow card. The tariff is generally higher for a ref to give those. See Kovacic at Arsenal.

 

[cheekybids]

Arsenal roll around on the floor after every defensive corner and collapse if touched in a tackle. Hence they get more time. It disrupts the flow of the game, so isn’t totally beneficial for them.

I’m glad that we don’t use those tactics and we seem to do okay without them.

That’s a fair point about Arsenals time wasting, it’s so obvious & yet they seem to get away with it & are then rewarded with the time when they need it.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

That’s a fair point about Arsenals time wasting, it’s so obvious & yet they seem to get away with it & are then rewarded with the time when they need it.

It’s why they do it. Stop any momentum and go gung ho at the end. It doesn’t always work.

 

[Axel Freed]

Arsenal roll around on the floor after every defensive corner and collapse if touched in a tackle. Hence they get more time. It disrupts the flow of the game, so isn’t totally beneficial for them.

I’m glad that we don’t use those tactics and we seem to do okay without them.

I’m also glad we don’t as I think it’s a glimpse into their inner psyche that reveals weakness.

In games where Arsenal are trailing or level for long periods, as they have been in some of the recent ones where famous last minute goals clinched them back to back titles, they aren’t rolling around so much and so the quarter of an hour or so that’s added on is unjustified.

We do ok in spite of the fourth official not adding on the correct amount of time. How many times at home during recent seasons when from the first min to the last it’s been a workshop in how to waste time by the opposition keeper have we moaned incredulously when only 4 or 5 mins of added time is put up at the end ?

 

[blue by birth]

It’s not a disgrace, he hasn’t affected the result in any way. He should have booked a couple more of their players, granted.

I’m not sure Guimares was a second yellow card. The tariff is generally higher for a ref to give those. See Kovacic at Arsenal.

Also see the palace player v dippers..
If Rod had done what Guimares did on was on a yellow I'm pretty sure it would be a second yellow.
Kavanagh let's fouls against us go unpunished by a card which is ok as long as he let's similar fouls by us go unpunished by cards