Ref Watch

[Gazza]

I’ve never known a referee to be so unaware (or maybe only too aware) of the effect stoppages are having on the flow of the game. He’s so easy to manipulate by time wasting tactics.

Not to mention Hojberg pretending to have a head injury to break up a City attack.

 

[knuckles]

Madeley is truly the worst ref in the prem, along with the total shithousery of spuds and the continued dirty f'ckin fouling and blatant yellow cards not given, and the fact that we are not playing all that well at the moment, we fell right into the hands of these gits.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

From the red card on 86.30 or so until 90.30 there was maybe 15 seconds of play,the Kev free kick for what 5 seconds then that twat starts rolling around after being hit by the ball.....suppose it could have killed him.

 

[Feed the Elk]

Not to mention Hojberg pretending to have a head injury to break up a City attack.

Surely that’s a yellow card for simulation.
It hit him in the shoulder ffs

 

[Gordyola]

Not to mention Hojberg pretending to have a head injury to break up a City attack.

He looked around and when he saw City had the ball he went down clutching his head wouldn’t have do so if they had the ball, an out an out cheat can’t blame refs for this if a player simulates a head injury
The only way to stop it is any player having treatment or the game is stop for them then has to leave the field of play for 5 mins I know it would be harsh for players genuinely injured but if introduced it would stop the faking also include the fake cramp

 

[spinney]

Should have send royal off for accumulation of fouls on jack. Weak officiating screws us over week in and week out.

Can't even mention the disgraceful five minutes added. There was maybe two minutes of ball in play from the 84th minute to the 91st. Where the fuck are they getting these numbers?

Any semblance of fairness has gone, sky / prem now want as much drama as they can get , pigmol / var are just feeding into it

No point having 'neutral' refs if they are not bring neutral, might as well go back to Sunday league where the home pub supplies the ref / linesmen

 

[MikeF]

The worst referee in this league by far. Utterly clueless.

The two instances in the first half where he blew for free kicks to spurs in off the ball situations and miles away from play got me. If that was applied throughout we’d have free kicks left right n centre. Joke of a referee.

I never thought I’d say this but Taylor is the best ref there is at the moment

 

[Akira]

Not to mention Hojberg pretending to have a head injury to break up a City attack.

Bothers me that. Not just Hojberg is particular, but players awhile back catching on that faking a head injury necessitates stoppage. Irritates me that nothing is being done about it, and the media aren't on it.

 

[micky_blue]

He looked around and when he saw City had the ball he went down clutching his head wouldn’t have do so if they had the ball, an out an out cheat can’t blame refs for this if a player simulates a head injury
The only way to stop it is any player having treatment or the game is stop for them then has to leave the field of play for 5 mins I know it would be harsh for players genuinely injured but if introduced it would stop the faking also include the fake cramp

Any player simulating a head injury to stop the game should be sin binned for 10 minutes....VAR could have easily determined that the ball hit Hoijberg shoulder not his head

 

[Eds]

We were poor but the ref was awful for both sides but mainly against us. Three ways to stop all the fake injury nonsense. 1. Players down with pretend cramp, play doesn't get stopped until ball out of play. Physio comes on and player must go off for a minimum of five minutes 2. Players down with fake head injury stay of the pitch for a minimum of five minutes regardless of whether it is real or not. 3. Independent time keeper is used. If 15 minutes goes up at the end of games then timewasting is useless other than letting players have a rest