Refereeing decisions...

[Anthony Kun]

It works both ways lads plenty of shit decisions go or way too.
Fuck the shit refereeing I'm more passed off we couldn't even overturn ten men!!

 

[Dethred]

"How is possible then that these selections are made 6 weeks early? It just doesn’t make any sense at all. How does someone’s form leading up to mid-January earn him a big match in March? And if they take in consideration how many times a ref has taken charge of a team, why was Howard Webb (a referee who's given United 9 penalties in 32 games but only 10 to Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool in 100 matches) given the last United game of the season at Sunderland last term, when he’d already refereed them more than anyone else previously?"

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"The season before that, Rafa Benitez had criticized 2 referees for their performances in Liverpool games: Phil Dowd who took charge of the opening league defeat at Spurs and Lee Mason who sent 2 reds players off in a 3-1 loss to Fulham. Both reffed LFC games a couple of months after. Mason sent Javier Mascherano off in his next Liverpool game (also a defeat) and still got handed another Reds game to officiate a few weeks later.

Of course, this is all one season. And United only lost 4 games so the sample is small. But we saw in the last post what happened the next season: the demotion Mike Jones suffered after giving Demba Ba an imaginary penalty at Old Trafford as well as how long Clattenburg has gone without reffing United after the 6-1 loss to City. And of course, the brilliant “coincidence” of Chris Foy reffing a League 2 game for the first time in 5 years after taking charge of Spurs 3-2 win at Old Trafford."

 

[Pigeonho]

The most one-sided rant against a ref i've ever seen, completely missing Everton's lack of decisions of which there were more than our penalty claim. Until the penalty decision the Everton fans could have been forgiven for thinking the ref had it in for them and wanted us to win, which is what we were all saying in the pub to the point it was laughable at times.

Carry on though.

 

[Marvin]

The most one-sided rant against a ref i've ever seen, completely missing Everton's lack of decisions of which there were more than our penalty claim. Until the penalty decision the Everton fans could have been forgiven for thinking the ref had it in for them and wanted us to win, which is what we were all saying in the pub to the point it was laughable at times.

Carry on though.

You are seriously comparing very marginal calls against a glaring error. :-)

 

[Pigeonho]

The most one-sided rant against a ref i've ever seen, completely missing Everton's lack of decisions of which there were more than our penalty claim. Until the penalty decision the Everton fans could have been forgiven for thinking the ref had it in for them and wanted us to win, which is what we were all saying in the pub to the point it was laughable at times.

Carry on though.

You are seriously comparing very marginal calls against a glaring error. :-)

No, i'm highlighting that the OP says the ref was cheating, when the fact of the matter is he was just absolutely fucking dog shit for both teams, but Everton would have right to be more aggrieved with his performance than us. Luckily for them from their point of view, they had a team who wanted to win the game despite the ref being shit.

 

[Deleted member 52846]

So many times when refs are blamed it's both selective and diversionary.

Hughes and Baconface were/are arch-exponents.

It's a lack of humility in defeat by being unable to accept our own shortcomings and there has to be some blame pointed somewhere else. I call it being a sore loser. There are decisions that go against every team in every match by we only ever seem to make a point of the ones that happen when we lose.

If the officials had done their job properly on Satruday, Everton may have had two goals and Edin may have found himself getting a second yellow for saying "fuck you" to the ref. Yesterday all Pardew could talk about was Macmanaman's horror tackle yet conveniently didn't once mention Ameobi's that should have seen him get sent off too (they seemed to miss hat one in the studio too), but it was Newcastle who got beat and Pardew is the Ncastle manager and ACole was a Ncaslte player.

 

[poyntonblue]

We were shit. Call the ref all you want and I agree he was dire but we, again were fucking awful at Goodison.

Call it 'Evertons cup final' blah, blah but they were up for it from the off and we showed no desire. They went down to 10 men and showed everything to hold on to their goal lead.

Perfectly good goal disallowed for them and we shoudl've had a penalty but all in all we deserved nothing from that game.

 

[Marvin]

The most one-sided rant against a ref i've ever seen, completely missing Everton's lack of decisions of which there were more than our penalty claim. Until the penalty decision the Everton fans could have been forgiven for thinking the ref had it in for them and wanted us to win, which is what we were all saying in the pub to the point it was laughable at times.

Carry on though.

You are seriously comparing very marginal calls against a glaring error. :-)

No, i'm highlighting that the OP says the ref was cheating, when the fact of the matter is he was just absolutely fucking dog shit for both teams, but Everton would have right to be more aggrieved with his performance than us. Luckily for them from their point of view, they had a team who wanted to win the game despite the ref being shit.

He made mistakes to the detriment of both teams although I think the Mirallas goal was offside and Pienaar was rightly sent off, but you can not compare a marginally incorrect call to a huge inexplicable error. A) Can happen B) makes you wonder wtfigo and you know full well Utd would have got a pen in that instance. I know the ref is not biased in favour of Everton against MCFC, but they are all more likely to give decisions in favour of Utd than anyone else, and that's what bothers me

 

[mgreenz97]

The referees seem to only get worse every year.
We've had a few go in our favour, and a few more than haven't, but the rags have had some absolute woppers.
Their game vs Chelsea was one of the worst performances by a referee I've ever seen. Linesman played a part there to.

 

[Ash of Ashton]

I was on the 3rd row of the lower bullens yesterday right on the line of the 18 yard box.

I thought it was outside. In hindsight with stalled pictures it is easy. At normal pace it was difficult. The fact that none of our players appealed for it showed they weren't arsed or weren't sure themselves.

I was in the paddock level with Fellaini and the linesman, it was as clear as day to me and everyone around me. Watched it later and all the players in view appealed.