Referees’ Performances | 2024/2025

Phil1 said:
The foul itself was a yellow card. Not arsed about the supposed kicking it away. He jumped into the back of Bernardo with force without looking at the ball.
No issue with a yellow and no issue with it leading to a red.
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We should have had a penalty when Rodri got injured. Akanji was "bear hugged" for about 10 yards in the box prior to Rodri going down as the corner was taken, and that was after the same player had been spoken to about 10 seconds before.
 
The issue with Oliver is that he’s generally afraid to make a controversial decision. He will try not to make a mistake by not making the difficult call. The irony being he then faces huge controversy over non decisions.

The first time I remember seeing him is when he bottled a blatant Fulham penalty late on at Old Trafford which would have seen united drop points in the 2011/12 run in. Every time I’ve seen him since it’s the same, the non penalties against united when Smalling was sent off, the array of red cards and penalties missed in the 1-1 at home to Liverpool in Pep’s first season, the numerous handballs away to Liverpool in 19/20, the missed red card against Kovacic away to Arsenal last season. Always decides not to make the hard call.

Yesterday the smart decision would have been to book Havertz early and calm matters down. The smart call would’ve been to call the arsenal free kick back as soon as it was taken. Once Calafiori scored he was never going to make the hard decision and call it back.
 
cleavers said:
We should have had a penalty when Rodri got injured. Akanji was "bear hugged" for about 10 yards in the box prior to Rodri going down as the corner was taken, and that was after the same player had been spoken to about 10 seconds before.
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Indeed. That was a ridiculous decision.

What is even more ridiculous is that Oliver blew for a foul for the exact same routine on Ederson but then allowed it to go unpunished when we conceded. VAR then rule that no offence had been committed. It was either a foul both times or not.
 
Gabriel said:
Indeed. That was a ridiculous decision.

What is even more ridiculous is that Oliver blew for a foul for the exact same routine on Ederson but then allowed it to go unpunished when we conceded. VAR then rule that no offence had been committed. It was either a foul both times or not.
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They were too afraid to (rightly) disallow the goal for Arsenal.
 
That was the poorest display by Oliver that I've ever seen. Even without my blue tinted specs we suffered 2 goals due to his negligence/lack of concentration/bias - choose your word according to taste. He was just poor, imho. In the second half, he didn't so much lose control as abdicate responsibility. VAR were worse, arguably.
But, when you look at what Martinez got away with at Palace, you just have to remember that, if we win anything, it's always because we get barely any help from referees. Once or twice a season we might get away with something: can you imaging how quickly the red card would have come out if a City player had done what Martinez did?
I'd rather do what we do our way - the Pep way - than any other way.
 
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