Referees’ Performances | 2024/2025

Stephen230 said:
You can’t build the laws of the game around how can we reduce the chance of injuries at all costs, or you’d be playing no contact football.

What if the linesman flags immediately. They take a quick free kick and within a few seconds someone gets clobbered and seriously injured? That wouldn’t have happened if they’d delayed the flag.
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At all costs, you say? You are normally OK with your analysis, but here not so much, imho.

You are drawing an equivalence in terms of risk between a referee blowing for an offence, play restarting and a player getting injured in the normal flow of the game on the one hand, and, on the other, a referee knowing an offence has been committed, deliberately letting play continue for technical reasons and then blowing at the end of the phase, during which a serious injury occurs?

You presumably accept that such injuries are inevitable? So it's a sort of Russian roulette with players' careers and health. All for the sake of fixing a problem that the authorities themselves have created.
 
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Fucking Atwell. A fussy little weak willed wanker. Nailed on he lets them get away with persistent niggly fouls and slowing the game down - no yellow cards. First clumsy foul from us will be the first booking. Even more nailed on if we’re leading 1-0 at any point in the 2nd half Ortega gets booked for time wasting.

You can read him like a book and not a very good book
 
Axel Freed said:
Fucking Atwell. A fussy little weak willed wanker. Nailed on he lets them get away with persistent niggly fouls and slowing the game down - no yellow cards. First clumsy foul from us will be the first booking. Even more nailed on if we’re leading 1-0 at any point in the 2nd half Ortega gets booked for time wasting.

You can read him like a book and not a very good book
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It's the bloke on var I'm more worried about they run the game they can influence the referee and change the mind of these weak referees!
 
Stephen230 said:
You can’t build the laws of the game around how can we reduce the chance of injuries at all costs, or you’d be playing no contact football.

What if the linesman flags immediately. They take a quick free kick and within a few seconds someone gets clobbered and seriously injured? That wouldn’t have happened if they’d delayed the flag.
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A philosophical question for you.

What are the two most importance purposes of the laws of the game, in your view?
 
Axel Freed said:
Fucking Atwell. A fussy little weak willed wanker. Nailed on he lets them get away with persistent niggly fouls and slowing the game down - no yellow cards. First clumsy foul from us will be the first booking. Even more nailed on if we’re leading 1-0 at any point in the 2nd half Ortega gets booked for time wasting.

You can read him like a book and not a very good book
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But at least there's a good chance we'll see the first try, home run or LBW decision in an FA Cup final.
 
Thinking about the positives ahead of our day in the sun, blue skies, and blue ribbons on trophies ahead…….

…..he was the VAR who gave the goal in the last minute away at Wolves after the onfield decision was ruled out.

So while competence remains a discussion point, having an ‘agenda’ probably shouldn’t be, as no-one other than us would have questioned him staying with the onfield decision.

Competence wise, hmmmm. Would be good if he gave us a goal that didn’t even go in the net, like he did Watford v Reading. That’s takes some doing. You Tube classic.
 
As mentioned in my OP of the post match thread, Jared Gillett should be sacked and PGMOL should be apologising to the club.

I hated Arsenal's public letter to them, I don't think that's the right attitude but we should be knocking on the door tomorrow and asking for a public apology.

It means fuck all but they should be admitting that's the worst decision in VAR history.
 
Can I ask a silly question and ask as interpreted it that it’s a deliberate handball by Henderson and a red card or am I missing something listening to shearer on coms he seemed to think it wasn’t as a man was covering but that only would apply to denial of goal scoring chance
 
NptonBlue89! said:
Can I ask a silly question and ask as interpreted it that it’s a deliberate handball by Henderson and a red card or am I missing something listening to shearer on coms he seemed to think it wasn’t as a man was covering but that only would apply to denial of goal scoring chance
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I think he's swayed by the comments that it was going away from goal, where Haaland got to the ball eventually, and that weird VAR explanation. He got carried away, as did Mowbray.

It's only a red card if it's DOGSO. It's not an automatic red card for handling outside the area.

If Henderson doesn't bat the ball, Haaland's just got to get it on target hard enough to beat the covering defenders. I thought it was a clear DOGSO.

The linesman on that side missed that it wasn't in the area, which isn't good enough.
 
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