Ref Watch

[BringBackSwales]

We were shit today but Marriner was worse. I predicted that their keeper would get away with it, and be booked between the 85th and 90th minute, and low and behold. It’s so fucking transparent. Ederson never takes as long as that **** did 20+ times and gets booked first time

 

[Metalartin]

I think Foden was offside just about but the offside line didn't seem right. How can a kneecap make you a foot offside?

 

[madloaf]

You can almost hear his thoughts: "Fuck City. I didn't want to book him at all but the gaffer just told me I have to. Oil money cunts! Keep doing it Palace, we're nearly at the finish line"
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Thought exactly the same thing at the time.

 

[JRockBlues]

The laws of the game should be applied equally not just to both teams but consistently over the 90 minutes of the game. Can someone please explain to me what their kepper did differently in the 85th minute to get that yellow card than to what he was doing throughout from the 6th minute?

 

[eastmanc]

Didn’t give a f*ck today.

Set the tone by allowing the Palace keeper to waste time from the 1st minute. Allowed 2 cynical fouls by Palace players at the start of the game to go unpunished.

Shocking performance by Marriner. But he will get away with it.

Why did he not watch what the keeper was doing, he kept running to the half way line with his back to the keeper not watching the goal kick and the keepers time wasting. To give him a card on the 85 th minute, what the point.

 

[Gray]

Yes it’s frustrating that their keeper takes an age with goal kicks running the click down, there must have been 20 of them today.

But we know he’s going to do it! So stop letting the ball go dead! Make sure you hit the target, make the keeper work! But no, ballooned efforts from distance, over hit crosses, failed dribbles result in countless goal kicks and more opportunities to let the clock tick down. It’s hard to fathom that players that can control the ball so effectively all over the pitch lose composure within sight of goal

Also don’t gift your opponent the opening goal.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

And we wonder why refs from the pl are hardly called up to the major international tournaments. Good thing Mariner isn't a cop, he would have been a menace. That man is rotten to his bones.

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

Not often I’m hoarse purely from screaming abuse at the ref. He was an utter disgrace. Is it an actual rule that keepers can’t be booked for time wasting until after the 85th minute ? Half the time he had his back turned to the time wasting, he was even pissing about near the touch line with the 4th official at one point while the keeper was faffing about.

And it might’ve been a sending off in todays game but it wasn’t clearcut enough to be overturned by var had he not given it but he couldn’t fuckin wait to pull the red card out.

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

How much time did they add on ? Should’ve been 7 minutes at least.

 

[Bozzie]

I thought booking the keeper on 85 minutes was just Marriner's way of taking the piss out of us. Having let him waste time all game I'd have rather he just left him to it for the full match than book him when it wouldn't make any difference.