Ref Watch

[Colin Bells Boots]

Slight tug. Nothing more. No enough to warrant going down, and certainly didn't appear to stop him challenging for the ball. Cancelo was just too quick. It just gave the ref an excuse.

In the context of the whole game Atwell let a whole lot worse slide. The ONLY difference was City were in on goal.

We are defintely reffed in a different manner to other teams, and PiGMOL see no issues with it.

It happens too often to be dismissed as " one offs ".

We obviously don't complain like other managers do, but if we did the wankers would probably appoint even more inept officials for our audacity in expecting fairness and consistency.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

It meant it wasn't the ridiculous decision it looked at the time.

I think it was still a ridiculous decision the context of the match.

 

[SatOnTheWall]

Probably the worst performance so far this season. The Cancelo decision was just bizarre. I have said this previously. Been on loads of courses and remember Howard Webb saying that having possesion does not automatically constitute having an advantage. City seem to get load of advantages where we have a player down or on the edge of our box or even when we have 1 attacker onto 4 defenders. Also, his use of the cards was very questionable

The refereeing community have a habit of sticking together like shit to a blanket so I think this is a very interesting, honest and telling post, not to mention correct, though I would substitute the word "questionable" for "bent as a corkscrew".

 

[Norbiton]

The Cancelo decision was because Haaland pulled the defender who might have otherwise tackled Cancelo.

I thought at the time there must have been something which prevented the City players going ballistic about being wrongly denied a clear run on goal

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I thought at the time there must have been something which prevented the City players going ballistic about being wrongly denied a clear run on goal

Just shows sometimes we're a bit quick to jump on a particular decision as we're set to the refs a twat mode....don't get me wrong he was shit all game as is usual.

It's funny though that Haaland gets called for a slight touch as happened at the dips for our goal yet we can be fouled left right and centre with nothing happening.

 

[manimanc]

It's so bent even the blind can see.

Grealish got kicked to death all night and Atwell wasn't the slightest bit interested in getting cards out.

You just knew the first challenge we made was going to end up in a yellow.

I don't care what anyone says, Atwell got told from whoever to Ref that game in the manner that he did, it was so obvious. Us scoring right before half time fucked it up for him as he changed his tune second half and reffed it completely different.

Seeing something as suspicious as it was unfold live makes you question yourself if you are paranoid or looking at it through blue specs but that was clear and obvious that he'd been instructed to ref it against us.

 

[mattcity5]

Teams are learning that more often than not, they can take one of our players out late and the ref will play the advantage and nothing happen. We're continuously having 4 man attacks reduced to 3 because of this 'advantage'. Then because the ref doesn't go back to book the player, they know they can continue like this. It's absolute crap.

There aren't generally too many individual horrendous mistakes to show up the bias. What we have instead are games reffed in a manner that suits the team we play against. As ever, we're up against it this season.

 

[Mentis]

Teams are learning that more often than not, they can take one of our players out late and the ref will play the advantage and nothing happen. We're continuously having 4 man attacks reduced to 3 because of this 'advantage'. Then because the ref doesn't go back to book the player, they know they can continue like this. It's absolute crap.

There aren't generally too many individual horrendous mistakes to show up the bias. What we have instead are games reffed in a manner that suits the team we play against. As ever, we're up against it this season.

I watched the game again and counted the fouls, either given or given advantage.

Team	Fouls​	Fouls advantage​	Total​
Leeds	13​	11​	24​
City	14​	1​	15​

No yellows given after advantages, even the one where de Bruyne was hacked down after a pass to Haaland.

 

[Blue Mist]

At one point in the game you saw Rico Lewis pass the ball and then weirdly jump in the air. That was because all game we had been clattered after we had released the ball, Rico was expecting the kick but for once it never came. Virtually every time we were fouled after passing it to a team mate, nothing was given.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Just shows sometimes we're a bit quick to jump on a particular decision as we're set to the refs a twat mode....don't get me wrong he was shit all game as is usual.

It's funny though that Haaland gets called for a slight touch as happened at the dips for our goal yet we can be fouled left right and centre with nothing happening.

Experience tells me that this is the correct mode in 99-999999999999999 recurring% of all cases.

What amuses me more than most with refs is the 'ease' with which they blow for a direct free kick outside the area but would need to have their bollocks in a vice to award the same if it occurred inside the area.