Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

[HypnoticBlue]

Taylor is rag c*nt, and that’s the end of it.

 

[cheekybids]

It worked though, no? No malicious or out of control challenges from either side. 22 men battling for a game of football and being allowed to do so.

It favours the team playing negative football. His job is to apply the laws of the game & there hasn’t been one game this season versus us a team has lost a player to accumulating yellows. Do you not think that players aren’t told this by their analysts before every game, they can break up every attack cynically with impunity.

Critics say our build up play is slow, it’s a direct correlation to the refs performance.

I don’t think it’s bias but they must have been told try & keep 11 on the pitch.

 

[meltonblue]

It favours the team playing negative football. His job is to apply the laws of the game & there hasn’t been one game this season versus us a team has lost a player to accumulating yellows. Do you not think that players aren’t told this by their analysts before every game, they can break up every attack cynically with impunity.

Critics say our build up play is slow, it’s a direct correlation to the refs performance.

I don’t think it’s bias but they must have been told try & keep 11 on the pitch.

It can favour both depending how it’s applied, we’ve had players that are masters at it to be fair.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Tbf to him, he was maybe expecting a game where both sides were playing the same sort of possession-based, aggressive pressing football, so he had decided beforehand to let the game flow on both sides. The problem was, it was pretty clear early on that that wasn't the case and it was more like attacking team vs spoilers like if we play Forest or Brentford, or pretty much anyone else, in fact. He didn't respond quickly enough to change the way he was managing the game. He could have lost control of it.

Maybe that is why he seems to lose control of so many games .....

 

[GaudinoMotors]

PL clearly so caught up in slowing down the game and punishing and vilifying those orrible balls boys and girls for throwing the footballs back - let's face it, we've all wanted that major issue clamped down upon for years - that their new directive supercedes, diving, professional fouls, play acting, shirt pulling, time-wasting, leaving the field of play etc.
The Webb and PL, continuing to enhance the football experience. No obvious lack of priorities or consistency anywhere!

 

[dickie davies]

The issue is being consistent in not calling fouls and/or not booking players for yellow card offences advantages the team parking the bus and committing most of the fouls in order to break the rhythm of the opposition actually trying to play.

Consistency does not mean fairness.

He did the same at klanfield a couple of years ago, then We scored and mason on VAR told him to look at a potential foul in the build up which he gave, when he’d been letting them go all game

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

It worked though, no? No malicious or out of control challenges from either side. 22 men battling for a game of football and being allowed to do so.

I'm sure that Ortega agrees with you about the flow of the match and probably very much appreciated the studs to the chest and face that Havertz gave him when the forward had absolutely zero chance of getting to the ball and slide into his had feet first in the first half.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

ATIAC

 

[Gordyola]

Although I totally disagreed with his actions post game Mourinho knows the truth about Tony Taylor

 

[Manc baggie]

It was a good example of a ref influencing the outcome of a game instead of simply applying the rules.
At least 3 Arsenal players should have been yellow carded for the fouls on Bernie, Kev & Ortega & then it’s a different situation for those Arsenal players for the rest of the game & also gives the City players a weak link to attack.
Not booking the Arsenal players gave them protection to foul & wrestle for the rest of the game & gave them a pretty obvious advantage.