Ref Watch

[Metalartin]

That was a truly appalling display of officiating from the referee and his backup in the VAR room. The sending off, the goalkeeper 'foul' for jumping over his own player, the knee-high, studs-up challenge on Gundo, and the non-pen on Gabby all made for as 'corrupt' a performance as I have witnessed for a long, long time.

Also a blatant freekick on the edge of their box, when they brought Bernardo down and he was fuming that is wasn't given, so you know it was a foul.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Brighton were disgusting tonight, but they knew they could be with this officiating

Not too sure if Brighton were disgusting.
They weren't responsible for Cancelo sending off and If officials and Var were doing their job we'd have had a penalty.
One of the weirdest decisions was Jesus being fouled and the ref played on, as if it was Jesus who had done the fouling

 

[MCFC1993]

Atwell was also on VAR when Zouma fouled Sterling. Out of his depth, disgusting performance.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Whatever we think about uefa refs they are generally better than ours. Mind you we can guess who they will pull out for the CL final
Edit - just googled it, fucking Lahoz

 

[Manc baggie]

Can only assume there was some serious money made on brighton winning that game. There is no other way to explain that referee/var performance.
I am honestly astounded at how biased that was.
Ref went full on Mike Riley.

 

[Don Karleone]

BENT

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Tonight was bent, shocking officiating.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

BT, Brighton, Bloom, Moss, Twatwell, what did you expect?

 

[hammocity]

Have a look at Tielemens on Werner, just like Gabby's (not the pen shout) but in the box, clear penalty and again VAR does fuck all when there's no other decision to give.

 

[SWP's back]

Tonight was bent, shocking officiating.

And then some.

 

[kwm1988]

BENT

Wow astounding that .
how the fuck is that not a foul .

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

Said to the wife it was corrupt at half time. Absolutely shite refereeing and quite what the fucking commentators were going on about I've no idea.

 

[burning blue soul]

I can't decide which option is worse; bent or incompetent.

 

[Kazzydeyna]

He is just a poor ref. I’m struggling to see why he would be corrupt in a game with as much importance as the Dog and Duck against the Farmers Arms on a Sunday afternoon.

Because somewhere in the world there will have been huge money wagered on City going down to 10 men in the first half you’ll find. Meanwhile this ref will probably buy himself a new car in a few weeks. Totally unconnected of course. Nothing to see here.

Footballl is institutionally corrupt. Has been for 20 years or more.

 

[simmo]

Where is the impartiality of the VAR officials.

Having just seen that farce of Werner not getting a clear pen and a free kick against it’s madness.

 

[herrock]

Ignoring the sending off, fouls on Gundogan and the blatant penalty, he was completely out of his depth, struggled to keep up with play and missed so many free kicks

 

[MCFC1993]

State of them. As bad as our game.

 

[Marvin]

Ref had nightmare. Two very close VAR calls. They could have given them a pen. though for Garcia's handball.

 

[knuckles]

Fck me attwell and moss truly appalling. Obvious that attwell was massively influenced by the fans, but Moss does not have the same excuse, wow that was bad, no way should Cancelo have been sent off, then that tackle on Jesus by lallana, he just does not touch the ball but defo gets Jesus. It doesn't mean much in the scheme of things but boy that was bad by the officials

 

[custardpie]

BT, Brighton, Bloom, Moss, Twatwell, what did you expect?

In a nutshell.
look up corruption in the Oxford English Dictionary and it says ....’BT, Brighton, Bloom, Moss, Twatwell.....