Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

A complete twat who fell for every single bit of shithousery from them, the complete opposite of the first leg ref.
 
Only issue was whoever it was not getting booked for belting Foden in the thigh

On RAWK he’s been given the name of Abu Dhabi Oliver. lol
 
We obviously played pretty poorly, and were fortunate to face an absolutely shite Chelsea side, but Oliver and his assistants did not help matters at the end.

Apart from VAR not giving the penalty—which I think was the correct call—there were some truly bizarre (in)decisions that favoured Chelsea and an extreme amount of leniency.

Both Caicedo and Enzo should have been sent off. Who knows, perhaps he was worried about the blowback of not giving Chelsea the penalty so was trying to make it up at the end.

Still a very odd performance overall.
 
Not sure either team will be overly happy with him today. From our point of views we must be feeling caicedo has license to do whatever he pleases against us. Did it in the league, and did it again today.

No yellow for booting Foden in the knee. Yellow for the next challenge, then no yellow for the next one which was probably the worst of the lot.

Oliver also suffers from the affliction of giving us play on when we have no advantage. Why? Because we're Man City and apparently we want possess always, even if the player was taken out and we're temporarily down to ten, heading backwards, and being closed down.

Then he books Alvarez for not retreating from a free kick, only to not book Palmer for the same thing literally twenty seconds later, or in fact any other player at all for doing it on the game thereafter, despite both sides doing it. Bizzare performance.

Also an unusually high number of decisions given the wrong way from deflects etc. Were the officials not talking to each other? Was a high chance that game could have been settled by a goal from a corner or throw in which was given the wrong way.
 
bluetonium said:
Not sure either team will be overly happy with him today. From our point of views we must be feeling caicedo has license to do whatever he pleases against us. Did it in the league, and did it again today.

No yellow for booting Foden in the knee. Yellow for the next challenge, then no yellow for the next one which was probably the worst of the lot.

Oliver also suffers from the affliction of giving us play on when we have no advantage. Why? Because we're Man City and apparently we want possess always, even if the player was taken out and we're temporarily down to ten, heading backwards, and being closed down.

Then he books Alvarez for not retreating from a free kick, only to not book Palmer for the same thing literally twenty seconds later, or in fact any other player at all for doing it on the game thereafter, despite both sides doing it. Bizzare performance.

Also an unusually high number of decisions given the wrong way from deflects etc. Were the officials not talking to each other? Was a high chance that game could have been settled by a goal from a corner or throw in which was given the wrong way.
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Even when we have the so-called advantage after staying on our feet following a bookable foul we get neither free kick when the advantage comes to nothing nor the booking. The real advantage comes from a free kick AND a fuckin' booking so that the perpetrator might just think twice before laying into one of our main men next time he needs to challenge. There are plenty of hatchet men still plying their trade in the PL and when they turn up to play us they know they can have a couple of solid hacks at Kev or Phil with the knowledge that the second booking will only appear in their next game.
 
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