Referees’ Performances | 2024/2025

The audacity of gooners to complain about the refereeing when neither of their goals should've counted, regardless of of Walker being in position or not, that free kick was taken 10 yards ahead of where it happened, and for the second goal if that's not obstruction I don't know what is, not to mention just the 7 minutes of added time when it should've been 10 at least with all the time wasting, thank fuck they didn't win at least.
 
Weakest refereeing performance in a long time. 7 minutes injury time was a joke. Chuckle brother said just heard var say we're playing to 99 minutes when we scored, on 77 minutes. Were did that 2 minutes go. Arsenal are a proper smacked arse club.
 
A new level of incompetence was reached today and given that he’s supposedly our best referee it was particularly egregious

For a man of his experience to have completely lost control of a game like he did should result in some kind of inquiry

Too many incidents to list individually but my main gripe is the failure to control time wasting. We’d quite literally still be playing now had he added on the correct amount of time.
 
I would say at least he got Trousers’ second yellow right but even that was apparently for kicking the ball away, instead of going full force in to Bernie’s back.

He was incredibly poor in almost every category of officiating.

It is a great indictment of the standard of referring in the PL that he is considered the best one England has to offer.
 
Chak19 said:
Someone tell me, if the ref talks to both captains surely he has to blow whistle for the game to restart ?
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Funnily enough 1 of the last courses I attended brought this up. If you call any player over to have a word then you should let said player get back into position. You should also restart with a whistle.
 
richardtheref said:
Funnily enough 1 of the last courses I attended brought this up. If you call any player over to have a word then you should let said player get back into position. You should also restart with a whistle.
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You just haven’t yet progressed to the top division refereeing badge course where you learn you can do whatever the fuck you want because you’ll never be held accountable in any way.
 
skillman said:
**** Oliver. Tried the usual hurrying players off the pitch but the damage had been done.

Lost control 5 minutes in and never regained it.

A reminder - Raya survived that game booking-free.
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Lost it after 10 seconds when Havertz was allowed to do Rodri
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Go on Pep!!!
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Is he having a go at Oliver?

Please tell me he is having a go at Oliver!?

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homerdog said:
Olivar allowed the tarquins to get away with all sorts of shit; if he's the PLs best ref, then god help us!
When Raya tried to kick it out of play after he had signalled play on when Timberrrr went down pretending to be injured, he then stopped the game when we went on the attack. That's total and utter incompetence and he should be roundly condemned for it.
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He indicated play on and I'm certain he thought Raya had kicked the ball out. In any case he would still have had to stop the game as their medical team had run on the field of play which is also against the laws of the games.
 
richardtheref said:
He indicated play on and I'm certain he thought Raya had kicked the ball out. In any case he would still have had to stop the game as their medical team had run on the field of play which is also against the laws of the games.
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Yep, they intentionally ran out without the referee’s position to force him to stop play. I am actually pretty sure I saw Arteta scream and gesticulate at them to do it as it became obvious the ball wasn’t going out of play.

Nearly all of Arsenal’s tactics are bad faith and yet nothing is done.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
He said Walker was right to complain that Olivar should have let him get back into position before allowing the free kick.
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Hope he mentions in it every presser from now until the end of the season and the club just pay the fines by selling and buying back hotels in the city centre.
 
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