Ref Watch

[bluemystery]

Marciniak was good last night and in the madrid semi. Felt he needed to book barella earlier though.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Thought he had a great game, seemed to give them everything in the last 10 mins but that was probably my nerves kicking in.

 

[Haaland94]

I want him for our every big game in the future, the best ref around.

 

[ZenHalfTimeCrock]

My older brother (who is a much more astute observer of the game than I am and watches about 10x more games than I do) is a former referee and a City fan.

He reckons that the standard of refereeing is much poorer here. Last night seemed to demonstrate that.

 

[Sir peace frog]

there's a reason he reffed the two biggest games in world football, different class this ref.

 

[jaiguruKun]

Decent overall, but there were couple of weird decisions against Jack towards the end.

 

[SatOnTheWall]

Decent overall, but there were couple of weird decisions against Jack towards the end.

One or two against Foden, too. Strangely, he does not seem to grasp the concept of shirt-pulling as a yellow card offence.

I thought he gave them some very soft free kicks towards the end. Giving in to Inter pressure a little, perhaps.

Overall he has done ok in the two games recently.

 

[kaz7]

Booking eddie was ridiculous , he always waits a while to see who is free to pass to , apart from that and given inters being hit by snipers every five mins i think he was good

 

[East Level 2]

I thought he let them kick Jack far too many times without taking appropriate action.

 

[Zubrman]

I have a theory about this. As it happens with so many different refs...

I don't think it's the refs being in the way, I think it's the team using the ref to shield the ball and protect the pass.

Ref is no longer considered part of the pitch so if the ball hits the ref.... What a shame uncontested drop ball to us. Still retain possession.

I think this is a credible theory. The ref in the opponent's third is obviously not marked and therefore has a space around him. We kick the ball in his direction as a disguised pass to the space behind him which we might be moving towards and, 'hey presto', a clever play if the ref moves out of the way. If he doesn't, we get an uncontested drop ball, right?