Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

[jrb]

Obviously not a City game, but a result that could have a huge impact on the title race.

 

[Gordyola]

Can't fault the ref for the 8 minutes. He added time on because of the rag time wasting.
He should have booked Onana for time wasting but overall no complaints.

Agreed Although I do wonder how he got it so badly wrong against Chelsea having booked the GK and more subs he only allowed 4 mins Maybe it was City drawing v City winning

 

[BringBackSwales]

Tierney not allowed to ref this coming weekend cos he favoured one of our title challengers; he is allowed on var for our other challenger instead. Thats all ok then

 

[BringBackSwales]

Do we know who our officials are for Sunday yet?

 

[Damanino]

Do we know who our officials are for Sunday yet?

Olivar with Atwell on VAR.

Atwell gave the offside goal for Fernandes/Rashford last season in the derby.

said in other topic, Oliver will give one of those pens to dippers where VAR cannot overturn if given or overturn if not given by on field ref which is the ultimate fucking joke wild card for a ref under VAR regime.

 

[Chris in London]

I wonder what odds you'd get from a bookie for a red card for a dipper or a penalty to us?

 

[SebastianBlue]

Obviously not a City game, but a result that could have a huge impact on the title race.

Same old, same old.

No real consequences for mistakes. Just stand them down until the heat dissipates and then put them back to refereeing until they make another high profile “mistake”.

Some of the shambolic state of officiating is unfortunately due to there simply not being enough top flight credentialed referees to allow for all of those consistently making mistakes to be sent back to the lower leagues.

But you also have to ask yourself why referees are rarely actually sent back down at all.

And why the consequences for repeated poor performance is usually being given VAR duty for a few weeks.

It becomes merely a rotation and, even if there is nothing actually untoward about it, the current setup does nothing to instil confidence with fans who are accustomed to facing material consequences in their lives when they continual make mistakes (at work or otherwise). And who are used to seeing the manager, executives, and players at their club also experience them (whilst also having to speak to and defend practically every action they undertake and every decision they make, right or wrong), whilst referees are largely insulated from such accountability.

If you wanted to design a system that would have its integrity and legitimacy consistently questioned by the main users of its output, this is how you would do it.

So, again, you have to ask yourself why the league and FA would not only persist with it but, in some ways, double down in the face of mounting criticism.

Perhaps we will never know.

 

[invisibleandalone]

I wonder what odds you'd get from a bookie for a red card for a dipper or a penalty to us?

How many stars are there in the universe /1 .

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

They don't need every game just the dipper one to screw us over.

And that's my biggest worry.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Tierney not allowed to ref this coming weekend cos he favoured one of our title challengers; he is allowed on var for our other challenger instead. Thats all ok then

Ycmiu