Referees/Officials Thread - 2023/24

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

They’d say the ref was right. All fans are biased. That’s fine. What isn’t is the continual crowing about corruption.

A push, grab or hold doesn’t necessarily mean a foul though. Football is a contact sport.

In your interpretation, every corner would result in a free kick or a penalty, depending on which of the 12 different hold/pulls you decided was in breech of the LotG.

And this is the area where the biggest variation lies. When City players are grabbed, held or pushed it's contact; when we push, grab or hold an opponent it's a foul, and invariably a booking.

I start off about two minutes before kick off and brand the whistling wanker a fuckin' cheatin' bastard. I then await his application of the LotG to prove me wrong. One or two over the road reffing the women have managed it, but none of PiGMOL's 'finest' has come near.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

And this is the area where the biggest variation lies. When City players are grabbed, held or pushed it's contact; when we push, grab or hold an opponent it's a foul, and invariably a booking.

I start off about two minutes before kick off and brand the whistling wanker a fuckin' cheatin' bastard. I then await his application of the LotG to prove me wrong. One or two over the road reffing the women have managed it, but none of PiGMOL's 'finest' has come near.

That’s just not true. We’re 14th in the league for number of bookings.

Again, I have no issue with you believing it’s true, it just isn’t.

Your second paragraph cements the fact that you‘ve already decided that the referee is rubbish before the game begins, so it’s no coincidence that you have com formation bias.

 

[Vienna_70]

I thought Robert Jones - I’ve never heard of him before - was shocking yesterday.

It seemed that he couldn’t pull the yellow card out fast enough for our players on occasion, but was very reluctant to do so for a similar offence by a Brighton player.

He was far too inconsistent, IMHO.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

That’s just not true. We’re 14th in the league for number of bookings.

Again, I have no issue with you believing it’s true, it just isn’t.

Your second paragraph cements the fact that you‘ve already decided that the referee is rubbish before the game begins, so it’s no coincidence that you have com formation bias.

Yer the second to tell me this. My ERO is forever tellin' me I've a bad case of combias. But I don't think it's a bad situation to regard refs as inadequate and then giving them 90mins to prove whether I'm a hopeless case!!

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Yeah booooooi.

 

[Stephen230]

Something that has long being an annoyance of mine and I know other people on here, is finally being addressed.

Namely the reluctance of referees to enforce the six second rule for goalkeepers to release the ball.

Trials are being planned in lower leagues next season, which may lead to a change of the laws by 2026/27.

The main points of the trial are:

*Goalkeepers to be allowed eight seconds to release the ball.

*The referee will raise his hand and count down the final five seconds for everyone to see.

* The penalty if the ball isn’t released in time will be either a throw in level with the penalty area or a corner. Participating leagues can choose which they use but have to stick with one or the other throughout the trial.

* First offence will bring a warning. A second offence, a yellow card and a third offence a second yellow/ red.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Something that has long being an annoyance of mine and I know other people on here, is finally being addressed.

Namely the reluctance of referees to enforce the six second rule for goalkeepers to release the ball.

Trials are being planned in lower leagues next season, which may lead to a change of the laws by 2026/27.

The main points of the trial are:

*Goalkeepers to be allowed eight seconds to release the ball.

*The referee will raise his hand and count down the final five seconds for everyone to see.

* The penalty if the ball isn’t released in time will be either a throw in level with the penalty area or a corner. Participating leagues can choose which they use but have to stick with one or the other throughout the trial.

* First offence will bring a warning. A second offence, a yellow card and a third offence a second yellow/ red.

Should be dealing with 45 secs to take a goal kick...

Fanny about very slowly...CHECK

Kick boots against the post... CHECK

Look about to consider (yeah right) a short goal kick...CHECK

Wave everyone up field into a 10 yard area...CHECK

Ref chats away to a midfielder of theirs so he either doesn't notice or is complicit... CHECK

Eventually warns keeper 2/3 times...CHECK

Issues a waste of time booking as the process of chatting to a midfielder starts again...CHECK

Never ever issue a second yellow...CHECK

We should call the bluff of these fucking teams and when they all crowd around one side of the halfway line put someone on the other wing. The one tactic Hughes had that impressed me was against Stoke when they had corners he had one of our players on each touchline on the halfway line, proper confused them.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Something that has long being an annoyance of mine and I know other people on here, is finally being addressed.

Namely the reluctance of referees to enforce the six second rule for goalkeepers to release the ball.

Trials are being planned in lower leagues next season, which may lead to a change of the laws by 2026/27.

The main points of the trial are:

*Goalkeepers to be allowed eight seconds to release the ball.

*The referee will raise his hand and count down the final five seconds for everyone to see.

* The penalty if the ball isn’t released in time will be either a throw in level with the penalty area or a corner. Participating leagues can choose which they use but have to stick with one or the other throughout the trial.

* First offence will bring a warning. A second offence, a yellow card and a third offence a second yellow/ red.

All these bullshit rules are just to stop time wasting. You could get rid of them all just with a stop watch. Play stops, watch stops suddenly all these problems go away, refs won't be hassled and fans will get more enjoyment due to equality

 

[Stephen230]

All these bullshit rules are just to stop time wasting. You could get rid of them all just with a stop watch. Play stops, watch stops suddenly all these problems go away, refs won't be hassled and fans will get more enjoyment due to equality

The ball is in play when the goalkeeper is in possession of the ball, so a stop clock would still be running.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

The ball is in play when the goalkeeper is in possession of the ball, so a stop clock would still be running.

Not for a goal kick it isn't