This might sound as though he is doing the flow of football a favour, but if three should have been sent off then I think the ref is not applying the LotG. If they've done summat that mandates a red then they shouldn't remain on the field. Or were they fouls that other refs might have given a yellow, or where refs wouldn't have bothered raising the whistle to their lips? Just shows how variable football can be arbitrated.Tony Harrington had a great game tonight in the Newcastle v Everton game. He could have probably sent 3 players off but didn't and actually let the game play. I wish more referee's would let the game flow the way that he did tonight.
This might sound as though he is doing the flow of football a favour, but if three should have been sent off then I think the ref is not applying the LotG. If they've done summat that mandates a red then they shouldn't remain on the field. Or were they fouls that other refs might have given a yellow, or where refs wouldn't have bothered raising the whistle to their lips? Just shows how variable football can be arbitrated.
This might sound as though he is doing the flow of football a favour, but if three should have been sent off then I think the ref is not applying the LotG. If they've done summat that mandates a red then they shouldn't remain on the field. Or were they fouls that other refs might have given a yellow, or where refs wouldn't have bothered raising the whistle to their lips? Just shows how variable football can be arbitrated.
Funny thing about 'soft' cards - the opposition turning up at The Etihad never seem to get 'em. 'Could, should'? If the ref has a mind to send someone off for a tackle that on another day he wouldn't or in another match, then I wonder how the sent off player would feel seeing a very similar offence only given a yellow. I've said for season after season that the issue of yellow cards often seems like a lottery, and the situation of someone being booked like that Wolves fellah last season for two yellows inside a couple of minutes doesn't bear comparison with someone who is violent or reckless towards an opponent. Red cards shouldn't be given for an accumulation of 'technical' fouls - kicking the ball away, removing yer shirt after scoring a career worldy. But then the refs have their instructions!I didn't say 3 players should have been sent off, I said 3 players could have been sent off. The bar is set so low now when issuing soft cards that it spoils the game in my opinion. Bad tackles should be punished but not every foul is a booking.
Correct, but how many players, teams 'n coaches look at the LotG and see how they can take advantage of them, push them to and beyond the limit. Refs are on a loser which, I suppose, is why they keep the VAR visuals and verbals tightly under control and all the fans get is a yea or nay to a goal that VAR have looked at. The LotG have been, I think deliberately, made more complicated than they need to be in order to circumvent teams taking advantage of a 'loophole' within them, and there are refs, without a doubt, who referee teams and players differently.This is why referees are always on to a loser. Enforce the laws strictly and flash cards as the law requires and you’ve ruined the game.
Be a bit more relaxed and let things go and you’ve lost control.
Today's was a complete bell end, determined to give us nothing . Stockley Park reluctantly told him to go to the screen for the penalty, yet it still took him endless views, from what was clear cut.
Brighton getting free kicks from the merest touches, too.
Bent all round
Well I'd say not giving us clear penalty, before we scored our first. Both commentator and sidekick were baffled that we didn't get one.Bent in what way?
Peter 'fucking ****' Walton couldn't understand why the first against Haaland wasn't given. That's like Jeffrey Dahmer saying Fred West went too far.Bent in what way?