Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

[Iassel]

Pawson looks unfit

this is actually quite an important issue in the English game today, and one of the very few things PGMOL are not at fault for.

They tried several times to enforce strict fitness tests on refs to bomb out the old fat fucks refusing to retire with dignity and were forced to back down each time.

Subsequently the ‘fitness test’ is so watered down that you could pass it the morning after a Wolf of Wall Street style bender and thus we are forced to see guys like Jon Moss a few years back waddling around at the end of his career clearly 20kg overweight and never within 15 yards of play.

It’s quite sad to think back not that many years to guys like Collina who looked like they could do 120 minutes in a dessert and then run a marathon after.

 

[bluenova]

We just want to have the rules applied evenly to both teams how can you book Alvarez for kicking the ball away at a free kick ( a booking was correct going by the new rules) but then doesn’t bother when a wolves player does similar..what was his reasoning for not applying the rules ..only conclusion is cheating..

He'd already booked a Wolves played for doing the same thing, which is why the crowd screamed for a booking when Alvarez did it.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Add him to the ever growing list of fucking utterly useless cunts that are stealing a living from our once great game.

 

[Don Karleone]

Add him to the ever growing list of fucking utterly useless cunts that are stealing a living from our once great game.

The list

 

[FantasyIreland]

The list

Its scandalous mate,fucking ridiculous.

 

[homerdog]

I actually think he didn’t give a second yellow because of Walker’s earlier theatrics.

A few minutes before, there was a nondescript foul that Walker laughably hammed up with a performance the Paris 24 gymnastics team will be studying.

When he then did exactly the same on Hwang’s challenge, rolling so far he’d be halfway to Manchester now without the advertising boards, Pawson I suspect thought he was hamming it up again.

You again...

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Yes, he was looking for the card then realised. Bent as fuck.

I don’t think it’s bent, the ref just had a shit game. It’s unfair on all the good refs who work hard to try and do a very tough job as well as they can by calling it all bent and corrupt.

Pawson today was just shit.

If it was bent, the Liverpool lad is booked there and the game moves on and nobody brings it up again.

 

[homerdog]

That's bollocks, sorry.

No need to be sorry, 100% correct!

 

[daztrueblue91]

That foul by Hwang was as clear a yellow as you will ever see. A bit of a bottle job by the refs there.

However, the fact they only added on six minutes should be a bigger talking point. We’ve had more added on in uneventful second half’s this season.

That second half had at least 5 stoppages due to injuries, 2 goals and several substitutions. The fact there was more added on time in the Community Shield speaks volumes.

 

[Iassel]

You again...

Bit odd that VAR told the onfield ref at Spurs to change his decision and send off Jones when there is a clear conspiracy to have a tight title race?!…