Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

[manimanc]

I’m no rags fan but I thought the handball was a def pen.
There would be uproar if that was us that said tough shit.

Would have been given if they hadn't bottled it with the Wolves game.

Nailed on penalty on Saturday but refs like to even things up don't they.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I thought the same last season, refs never seemed to get slagged despite how bad the decision. Compare with the season before and they were getting slagged all the time. I got the impression they had been instructed not to criticise.

It pretty obvious they are purposely not mentioning it, because that was a pivotal decision in the Liverpool game. It was clearly simulation because contact was minimal at best, but the VAR 'check' concluded it wasn't a clear and obvious' error from the referee, who gave it instantly. It was given when the score was a 1-1 and Bournemouth were holding their own. It doesn't even show up as a penalty on the stat's because it was scored on the rebound.

 

[cleavers]

Only thing that went England's way was no penalty retake when Earps was clearly not on the line

She had her foot on the line, I originally thought the same as you, but there's a still picture as the ball was kicked, and her foot is still on the line.

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

Difference is the Dippers had 2 penalty decisions wrongly called in their favour and Klopps narrative after the game was all about the red card with no media having the backbone to ask him about the penalties.
Ferguson we know was exactly the same.

With us we are far too weak after the game, we never moan or bring up any decisions by the officials, Pep could have talked about the aggression and how they ended up somehow with 11 on the pitch and how the referee had different interpretations on whats a foul for each team.

But he didnt, we didnt make a fuss so its already forgotten.

Now, most refs are very weak these days, and say your one of them and had a call to make. Would you award it to us knowing the other team will moan and brung it up after the game and depending on the team have it all over social media.
Or would you take the easy option and give it against us, keep your cards in your pocket etc, knowing after the game its forgotten and knowing City wont mention it at all.

"Pep could have talked about the aggression and how they ended up somehow with 11 on the pitch and how the referee had different interpretations on whats a foul for each team"

But he'd have got fined for dissing the ref and his integrity (laughs)..... and Pigmol would have doubled down on us to show us who's boss.

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

I thought the same last season, refs never seemed to get slagged despite how bad the decision. Compare with the season before and they were getting slagged all the time. I got the impression they had been instructed not to criticise.

Pigmol/Webb apologizes, ref and the VAR wanker get a week off (paid I suspect), nothing happens and we move on. Jobs for the boys.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

Rags shouldn't have had a penalty according to Ref Watch as Romero was too close to the ball. And Grealish wasn't in the FA Cup final? Were they trying to manipulate a result in the final, why not against Spurs. Does anyone know what the handball law is these days?

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Was an interesting penalty award, play stopped, with the ref notified there was a possible penalty incident missed, VAR took an age to say I think you should look at it, the ref then needed a dozen + replays of the incident to convince herself, then awarded it, there was nothing clear and obvious about that

And she was 5 yards away looking directly at the incident!

 

[Blueboy73]

I’m no rags fan but I thought the handball was a def pen.
There would be uproar if that was us that said tough shit.

I thought Spurs could have had one too.
Anyway fuck the Rag scum, along with their other arse cheek they're refereed differently than everyone else and benefit disproportionately from joke decisions week after week, season after season.

 

[Norbiton]

Arsenal’s Tomiyasu given a second yellow card for something that wasn’t even a foul after a first for wasting time on a throw which wasn’t particularly delayed. Whereas studs in the back of the leg are fine apparently

 

[dickie davies]

@ZanteWeatherman
The last time Pep asked for the players to be protected, the next time they had an opportunity to teach Pep a lesson, they did
Wigan away , FA Cup. Delph dived in, ref pulls a yellow as that was the correct punishment, then puts it back in his pocket and showed him a red

 

[BringBackSwales]

“clear and obvious” has got to go, it’s a blatant manipulation tool. I think “right and wrong” would be a lot more sensible

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Didn’t watch it but I’ve seen stills that show her trailing foot was above the line when the ball was struck, which makes it a legal save.

I've seen that overhead still too - the shot from behind the goal is the one that makes it look like an early jump. The overhead was a surprise to me when I saw it.

 

[Kmezn]

“clear and obvious” has got to go, it’s a blatant manipulation tool. I think “right and wrong” would be a lot more sensible

Agreed. I'm not sure why the var has to overrule. And you know can't just ASSIST!

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Bookings for waving yellow cards rule has gone I see

 

[TonyM]

Are all sports in England officiated so poorly?

It's at a point (for quite a while now) that I'd trust European refs more than I would English ones. I just assume that English football refs are poor - a mixture of weak character, confused inconsistent intelligence and/or corrupt/biased.

Maybe it's partly because the media and the clubs play a part in ignoring it and/or enabling it.

Maybe (hopefully) it's just football.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Bookings for waving yellow cards rule has gone I see

Doesn't apply for Arsenal. Along with the until they score overtime.

 

[geoff hammond]

It’s strange. If you go on other clubs forums they all slag the refs off and feel that their club is hard done by.
Not a single one thinks that they benefit from refs decisions

 

[SebastianBlue]

It’s strange. If you go on other clubs forums they all slag the refs off and feel that their club is hard done by.
Not a single one thinks that they benefit from refs decisions

Well, we all can’t be right. ;-)

 

[salfordbluetrue]

The ref in the City game gave out 6 yellows 4 for touching the opponent and 2 for fouls, the 2 fouls both he was told to by VAR, as the first he ignored like all the others, and the second he signaled for an opposition throw in. The ref was effectively allowing Newcastle to bulldoze their way through the game.

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

Arsenal’s Tomiyasu given a second yellow card for something that wasn’t even a foul after a first for wasting time on a throw which wasn’t particularly delayed. Whereas studs in the back of the leg are fine apparently

Carded the wrong player imo. The snide fucker Havertz held on to the ball for a minute (ish) and when he threw it to Tomiyasu, that's when the card was shown.

Plus Exe should have had a pen, or be booked for a dive. Partey was waving the imaginary card in view of the whole world on tv, and the weak Coote did nothing at all.