Referees/Officials

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I have to be honest and say that I am not a fan of the CL, and one of the reasons for that is the performances of the officials towards the like of Barceloa, RM, etc.

There is absolutely no justification for the ridiculous card given to Sterling when the was clear contact by Umtiti, thus denying City a penalty.

There were also numerous flaws within his overall performance which demonstrated a clear bias in favour of Barcelona , which is simply corrupt in favour of the UEFA staus quo.

I appreciate that the CL is the holy grail for our owners, but I seriously doubt that I will ever fall in love with the competition due to the blatant corruption demonstrated by the UEFA and their officials.

PL and domestic competitions are the important to me, but I'm only a punter paying my money to watch my beloved team.

Boo UEFA and every other rancid organisation at every opportunity imo - it's the one way we have to shown our disapproval.

Well done tp Pep and the buys for beating both Braca and the officials !!
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
If anybody saw...at half-time, John Stones putting his hand on the shoulder of the referee who reacts with major disdain.

Up steps Lionel Messi, who manages to put his arm around the twot and not a flying fuck was given then.
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I did see. Messi was allowed at least four lengthy moans at the referee between his penalty appeal and leaving the pitch at half time.
 
Sterling booked for "diving"
Messi actually diving and ...................nothing.

Joke of a ref - these people need to be made accountable.
 
We've been subjected to some pretty bad refereeing performances in the Champions League, but that was ridiculous last night. As someone else said, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but there is no way he was impartial last night. The decision to book Sterling rather than award the penalty was a disgrace. The ref had a clear view of it. On a side note, Messi is as bad as Rooney for trying to ref games.
 
The Busquets situation was the same as Mr Potato Head in the league derby. A number of clear yellow card offences simply ignored. And how Digne was still on the pitch at half time is a complete mystery. Well it's not a mystery really.

It reminded me of Foy in the 2011/12 game at Norwich, who was determined to stop us winning and booked Tevez in very similar circumstances to Sterling last night. In the end, not even he could influence the result as we blew Norwich away like we blew Barca away.

And the club definitely knew that Foy was dodgy.
 
Ric said:
We've been subjected to some pretty bad refereeing performances in the Champions League, but that was ridiculous last night. As someone else said, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but there is no way he was impartial last night. The decision to book Sterling rather than award the penalty was a disgrace. The ref had a clear view of it. On a side note, Messi is as bad as Rooney for trying to ref games.
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BG74 said exactly the same thing about Messi to me last night, shockingly biased performance by the ref
 
The ref made some curious decisions - carded Sterling when I thought it was likely a penalty and at best a non-call; didn't book one of Barca's defenders (I forget whom) early on when he took a tactical foul; Busquets seemed to get away with murder before finally drawing a foul.

But I don't think he was a cheat or was pro-Barca.

He could have easily given hand ball against Aguero (assuming that he even saw the play) and could have given a penalty for the challenge against Messi in our box (though this was no way a penalty).

My take - bad night for the ref; but we won in the end on our own merit, overcoming his questionable calls.
 
Ref was awful last night, no way did Sterling dive and what use are the extra officials behind the goal because they do nothing.
The Barca player who trip Sterling twice when he was past him should have got 2 yellows.
Every 50/50 went Barcas way, but fuck them because we won in spite of the officials not because of them.
 
Neville Kneville said:
Later in the game, they hoofed one over the top at Suarez which resulted in Willy having to rush out & clear the ball.

Suarez was a clear yard offside. No chance the lino didn't see it, just decided not to give it.
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I was fucking furious with that last night, he was waiting to see if Suarez got near the ball before putting his flag up but as Willy got there first he decided not to, how a throw in to them 30 yards from goal is an advantage to us from a player offside i'll never know, corrupt as fuck last night and only our actual brilliance got us the result.
 
Marvin said:
Also the Sterling pen is very difficult to see
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I see what you mean
 
The amount of times Barca were allowed to stop a break by a cynical foul on the halfway line was what really got my goat.
 
Terra Passenger said:
The ref made some curious decisions - carded Sterling when I thought it was likely a penalty and at best a non-call; didn't book one of Barca's defenders (I forget whom) early on when he took a tactical foul; Busquets seemed to get away with murder before finally drawing a foul.

But I don't think he was a cheat or was pro-Barca.

He could have easily given hand ball against Aguero (assuming that he even saw the play) and could have given a penalty for the challenge against Messi in our box (though this was no way a penalty).

My take - bad night for the ref; but we won in the end on our own merit, overcoming his questionable calls.
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Aguero's arm was in a natural position close to his side when the ball struck him (leaving aside the fact that I thought he'd been fouled as the initial cross came over).

The Digne situation was the one that got me raging, at least three bookable offences in the first hour and not one yellow and then if I'm not mistaken he kicked the ball away late on to add insult to injury.
 
lancs blue said:
Aguero's arm was in a natural position close to his side when the ball struck him (leaving aside the fact that I thought he'd been fouled as the initial cross came over).

The Digne situation was the one that got me raging, at least three bookable offences in the first hour and not one yellow and then if I'm not mistaken he kicked the ball away late on to add insult to injury.
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Can't argue with this. A poor performance by the ref. But to accuse him of intentionally cheating is stretching matters IMO.

If he were trying to cheat, he'd have blown hand ball on Aguero (assuming once more that he even saw the play).
 
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