Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

[Stephen230]

That's not what I've heard from various sources.

I’m sure it isn’t. I’ve heard it myself about a dozen times just today.

 

[SSBlue]

There's more than 20 referees registered for Premier League games.

Plenty enough so Taylor never refs our games ever again.

Or we could have a rated referee from the lower leagues. They might make mistakes but at least they'd be honest mistakes.

But truth is that pretty much every team hates this twunt (with one obvious exception). So we all have to take our turn. He's like a virus that nobody wants but we all have to get at some point.

 

[Blueboy73]

I’m sure it isn’t. I’ve heard it myself about a dozen times just today.

I've heard numerous times today and over the last few years that he has family members who are Rag season ticket holders so I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

He affiliated himself with The Cheshire FA to enable him to referee City and Utd matches as he couldn't do so if he was affiliated with the association of his home town.
A Mancunian from Wythenshawe claiming to be an Altrincham fan?
Convenient as he wouldn't be able to referee either City or Utd or any matches which could influence either if he told his employer he supports one or the other.
I smell bullshit.

 

[Stephen230]

I've heard numerous times today and over the last few years that he has family members who are Rag season ticket holders so I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

He affiliated himself with The Cheshire FA to enable him to referee City and Utd matches as he couldn't do so if he was affiliated with the association of his home town.
A Mancunian from Wythenshawe claiming to be an Altrincham fan?
Convenient as he wouldn't be able to referee either City or Utd or any matches which could influence either if he told his employer he supports one or the other.
I smell bullshit.

I’m afraid your info about him being from Wythenshawe is also wrong. Despite what Wikipedia says. He’s from
Altrincham.

 

[TravisBickle]

There's more than 20 referees registered for Premier League games.

Plenty enough so Taylor never refs our games ever again.

Or we could have a rated referee from the lower leagues. They might make mistakes but at least they'd be honest mistakes.

But truth is that pretty much every team hates this twunt (with one obvious exception). So we all have to take our turn. He's like a virus that nobody wants but we all have to get at some point.

Or we could get some top refs from abroad.
The state of refs in this country is fucking shocking, it’s no wonder they hardly ever get World Cup call ups!

 

[Axel Freed]

I remember chatting to a few blues in the hotel carpark on FA cup final morning about this ****, all of us outwardly respectable seeming middle aged men, and to a man everybody thought he deserved what he nearly got from Roma fans.

If you conduct yourself as a **** you can’t complain when you get treated like one. What goes around comes around.

 

[Blueboy73]

I’m afraid your info about him being from Wythenshawe is also wrong. Despite what Wikipedia says. He’s from
Altrincham.

He went to Altrincham Grammar.
He's from Manchester, its listed as his hometown every time he referees a game.

 

[Blueboy73]

I remember chatting to a few blues in the hotel carpark on FA cup final morning about this ****, all of us outwardly respectable seeming middle aged men, and to a man everybody thought he deserved what he nearly got from Roma fans.

If you conduct yourself as a **** you can’t complain when you get treated like one. What goes around comes around.

Mourinho is a twat but Taylor is an even bigger twat and Mourinho has got his number.
Pep has got Taylor's number too.
They can't both be wrong.

 

[Gray]

Taylor most definitely is local. He attended Altrincham Boys Grammar School and his birth place is Wythenshawe (probably the hospital maternity wing).

He should not be refereeing City or Rag matches which is another inditement of the useless twats at PGMOL.

He completely lost it after the Rodri red card and was running around like a headless chicken missing all-sorts of shenanigans by Forest.

As a Club we are far too placid about demanding that certain referees do not get appointed to officiate at our matches.

 

[halfcenturyup]

What I don't understand is why he would "apply a higher bar" in this game. It's pretty obvious that one of the teams will rely on possession and sophisticated tactics, ane one on physicality because they are less skilled. May sound patronising but it's the truth. So the physical team gains an advantage at the expense of the more skilled team. What does the referee expect to happen?

Ignoring the questions of consistency, I can see why it may happen with two "evenly matched" teams, City and Arsenal say, or City and Liverpool (as long as VAR is on the same page), but City and Forest, what is the thought process there?