Ref Watch

[lancs blue]

Despite the result at Wolves, Anthony Taylor is usually bad news for City.

Last season, Taylor refereed City in 4 PL games (Spurs home & away, West Ham away & Liverpool). City won none of them.
In total across the other 34 games & all other refs, City lost just once.

City win %ges last season:

Without Taylor: 85.3%
With Taylor: 0%

I thought the Spurs defeats were of our own making tbh and we ballsed up the chance to win at West Ham when Mahrez missed the pen. Not convinced that Taylor was much of a factor in those results.

 

[nmc]

I thought the Spurs defeats were of our own making tbh and we ballsed up the chance to win at West Ham when Mahrez missed the pen. Not convinced that Taylor was much of a factor in those results.

Taylor was front and centre in out defeat at Spurs….he let them kick the shit out of us…. Who was that full back who got 3 final warnings?

 

[lancs blue]

Taylor was front and centre in out defeat at Spurs….he let them kick the shit out of us…. Who was that full back who got 3 final warnings?

We still missed enough chances to win three games.

 

[cleavers]

Taylor was front and centre in out defeat at Spurs….he let them kick the shit out of us…. Who was that full back who got 3 final warnings?

Maybe true, but we can't keep missing the chances we did in those games.

That is what costs, the home game, we had 21-6 shots, 79-21% possession, 10-0 corners, they should have been hammered regardless of the referee. The defending at the end also cost us, it was stupid.

It wasn't much better in the away game either, more shots, more on target, more possession, and more corners.

We don't lose very often, so it's easy to blame referee's, but our players are often more to blame I'm afraid.

 

[mat]

I thought we did get worked up about Mason, he's a fat **** that has done us over time and time again.

We did and so did the club. Getting that "Bolturn fan" removed from a crucial title run in game. (West Brom I think)

Very rarely reffed us after that and was still a **** who hated us.

 

[Stephen230]

For those advocating we look to Europe to find some proper refs who know how to control a game.

Sendings off so far this season:

 

[asahartford1]

Despite the result at Wolves, Anthony Taylor is usually bad news for City.

Last season, Taylor refereed City in 4 PL games (Spurs home & away, West Ham away & Liverpool). City won none of them.
In total across the other 34 games & all other refs, City lost just once.

City win %ges last season:

Without Taylor: 85.3%
With Taylor: 0%

I was at 3 out of 4 of those and Taylor was certainly not at fault.
But let's bring back Dowd and Mason, proper refs.
A preconceived bias is never the best approach to fair judgement.

 

[SatOnTheWall]

For those advocating we look to Europe to find some proper refs who know how to control a game.

Sendings off so far this season:

Without seeing individual incidents it is hard to comment. Each one deserves to be dealt with appropriately.

 

[East Level 2]

For what it's worth I think there really is a top official in Taylor but it is really difficult to erase that Chelsea match from my head. One of the most corrupt performances I've ever witnessed.

Not to mention the penalty at West Ham last season. Every angle showed a clear foul with Alty having a good view, yet he still needed a long look at the monitor before awarding it.

 

[mat]

I read an interesting interview with Michael Oliver once where he said it’s important to realise that different teams need refereeing differently when it came to applying advantage. He used Stoke as an example and said he knew they would virtually always prefer a free kick. Because of that he would very rarely apply advantage after a foul on a Stoke player, when he would have done in an identical situation with other teams. Good understanding of the game and refereeing.

That explains why he likes to block out passing link ups when reffing us.