Referees’ Performances 2018/19

[NoApologiesForBeingSpurs]

If ever there was bent refereeing it was today.
Every 60/40 tackle or worse resulted in a Spurs free kick. Oliver also allowed 4 awful challenges on City players to go unpunished - Only once did he card a Spurs player for a bad challenge. Rose should have got two yellows within 10 mins of coming on to the pitch.

Spurs fans on the train home thought he was a homer.

Yep, we did on the whole. Personally I thought he just got a lot wrong both ways. Foden didn't get booked for preventing a counter attack, Fernandinho seems to have a free pass for his first three bookable offences in every game he plays and Bernardo took two swipes at Rose nowhere near the ball but got away with them because he somehow missed Rose completely. And then the booking you refer to was Wanyama who had just got on the pitch and was booked for his first foul which was Fernandinho going over an outstretched leg. So in terms of bookings dished out there were plenty both ways that could or should have been yellows and the only one he gave was a far lesser offence.

The only other bookings were for the Vertonghen / Sterling handbags, right at the end that wasted a couple of minutes of the 5 additional. But the ref added 20 seconds to make up for that...

I thought it was a generally poor performance by a ref that seems to be highly rated and yet appears to bottle making decisions.

Rose is a basket catch. He had admitted as such.

Rose has admitted to suffering from depression. Referring to that to being a basket case is just wrong and that kind of comment contributes to the ongoing stigma around mental illness, a stigma that destroys lives and results in suicide being the most common cause of death for men aged 20-49 in the UK. This reply has nothing to do with club affiliation or Rose specifically but I would ask that you consider this kind of post in the future :-)

 

[dennishasdoneit]

I got the impression today that some big money had been placed in the Far East market on less than 4.5 yellow cards.

Also gave Spurs a free kick for a push in the back that looked no worse than the one on Sterling that looked like it should have been a penalty.

Interesting point re betting on bookings...i didnt think of that.
Watching matches in pubs now as i do,ive noticed neutrals hopping up and down screaming for bookings,and saying things, hope its a corner ...or "right no more corners for City me bets looking good " ..its wierd how modern football has desolved into some kind of betting farce.

 

[NoApologiesForBeingSpurs]

Why do I keep hearing about the alleged Walker handball but nothing about the Alderweireld one?

Probably because one changed the result and the other didn't and there are a lot of Liverpool online and in the media that are desperate for their lot to take the title so will alter the narrative to make Liverpool sound hard done by. Always the victims! (why I wasn't overly disappointed with losing yesterday as I would prefer you take the title - as long as we get top 4!)

If we had equalised there would have been a lot more noise about decisions not given in your favour. I thought they either both were penalties or neither were. Neither of the players could have done anything to prevent the contact on their arms: Toby had his weight on his arm in standing up with no idea where the ball was and Walker had no time to react to get his arm out of the way. But the handball rule seems to be made up for every match so I've no idea how a PL ref was supposed to interpret them.

 

[Rolee]

Probably because one changed the result and the other didn't and there are a lot of Liverpool online and in the media that are desperate for their lot to take the title so will alter the narrative to make Liverpool sound hard done by. Always the victims! (why I wasn't overly disappointed with losing yesterday as I would prefer you take the title - as long as we get top 4!)

If we had equalised there would have been a lot more noise about decisions not given in your favour. I thought they either both were penalties or neither were. Neither of the players could have done anything to prevent the contact on their arms: Toby had his weight on his arm in standing up with no idea where the ball was and Walker had no time to react to get his arm out of the way. But the handball rule seems to be made up for every match so I've no idea how a PL ref was supposed to interpret them.

Good post, for the record I think neither justified a penalty but like you say it's hard to know what is handbell from one game to the next.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Didn’t Vertonghen go through Aguero in the second half with two feet off the ground scissoring into him. He got the ball but it was from behind and pretty dangerous.

Wouldn't have said 'went through' but the momentum/follow through was a pretty bad scissor tackle. Normally a booking.

I thought we got away with a couple of wild ones early, Spurs replied and the ref should have had a word then.

The Aderweireld handball - Wouldn't want that to be a foul, he was off balance, not deliberate, and gained no benefit.

 

[Cityfan1977]

Yep, we did on the whole. Personally I thought he just got a lot wrong both ways. Foden didn't get booked for preventing a counter attack, Fernandinho seems to have a free pass for his first three bookable offences in every game he plays and Bernardo took two swipes at Rose nowhere near the ball but got away with them because he somehow missed Rose completely. And then the booking you refer to was Wanyama who had just got on the pitch and was booked for his first foul which was Fernandinho going over an outstretched leg. So in terms of bookings dished out there were plenty both ways that could or should have been yellows and the only one he gave was a far lesser offence.

The only other bookings were for the Vertonghen / Sterling handbags, right at the end that wasted a couple of minutes of the 5 additional. But the ref added 20 seconds to make up for that...

I thought it was a generally poor performance by a ref that seems to be highly rated and yet appears to bottle making decisions.



Rose has admitted to suffering from depression. Referring to that to being a basket case is just wrong and that kind of comment contributes to the ongoing stigma around mental illness, a stigma that destroys lives and results in suicide being the most common cause of death for men aged 20-49 in the UK. This reply has nothing to do with club affiliation or Rose specifically but I would ask that you consider this kind of post in the future :-)

I agree that its wrong to call Rose that but I find it strange that he is playing football he seemed in no way focused on football he was more trying to pick a fight.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Probably because one changed the result and the other didn't and there are a lot of Liverpool online and in the media that are desperate for their lot to take the title so will alter the narrative to make Liverpool sound hard done by. Always the victims! (why I wasn't overly disappointed with losing yesterday as I would prefer you take the title - as long as we get top 4!)

If we had equalised there would have been a lot more noise about decisions not given in your favour. I thought they either both were penalties or neither were. Neither of the players could have done anything to prevent the contact on their arms: Toby had his weight on his arm in standing up with no idea where the ball was and Walker had no time to react to get his arm out of the way. But the handball rule seems to be made up for every match so I've no idea how a PL ref was supposed to interpret them.

On a slightly different note.
What on earth is happening with Danny Rose?
I know he's had some personal issues, but his body language appears permanently angry, not dissimilar to Balotelli on a bad day
Yesterday he just seemed to be looking for a fight

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

We need to try to always get the two goal lead if we can because one of these twats will give something against us soon and it will
cost us.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Is it possible that Oliver may be suffering from some kind of problem? His actions and inactions yesterday were most strange. I mean this quite seriously. It was, probably, the worst performance I have ever seen by a referee.

 

[cleavers]

Personally I thought he just got a lot wrong both ways.

I thought it was a generally poor performance by a ref that seems to be highly rated and yet appears to bottle making decisions.

Wouldn't argue with that (or most of the rest of your post), we certainly should have had a penalty though, and that would have (probably) put us 2 up.