Referees' Performances | 2025/26

Free kicks being taken quickly.
If you take it quick by kicking it at a retreating opposition player, that player then receives a yellow.
But if you take it too quickly say from the halfway line chasing an equaliser (as in Everton's case vs the dippers) the ref will book the taker.
Hmmm strange rules
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
All refs will make some debatable calls in each match they referee.

He could have given them more fouls when they lumped balls up to their strikers and there were battles for the ball.

I’ll leave it there as I don’t want to rile people.

You’re right. He was shit.
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I dont recall any fouls their strikers could have got. What I do remember is Brentford being repeatedly allowed to take throws from way forward from where they are - which given their tactics was a huge advantage to them. It's beyond me how someone can have watched that and describe England's performance as "ok".
 
lasereyes said:
I dont recall any fouls their strikers could have got. What I do remember is Brentford being repeatedly allowed to take throws from way forward from where they are - which given their tactics was a huge advantage to them. It's beyond me how someone can have watched that and describe England's performance as "ok".
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That’s okay. Fans generally only remember negative aspects of referees performances.

Thought he did okay. He didn’t fall for the forward feigning that he’d got an arm in the face from Gvardiol towards the end, where he could easily have fallen for it.

He booked their player for waving an imaginary card when they don’t always do that.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
That’s okay. Fans generally only remember negative aspects of referees performances.

Thought he did okay. He didn’t fall for the forward feigning that he’d got an arm in the face from Gvardiol towards the end, where he could easily have fallen for it.

He booked their player for waving an imaginary card when they don’t always do that.
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That's pretty arrogant. So you are the only person who apparently watches the game objectively. You are welcome to your opinion but you are IMO citing very minor things that supposedly favoured us while ignoring much more significant things that greatly favoured Brentford. In addition to letting them blatantly abuse throw-ins, he booked Nico for delaying a few seconds, allowed them to use the towel illegally, ignored Bobb's penalty shout, called Doku for handball when the linesman who was much closer didn't flag, and inexplicably allowed the game to go on for an extra minute at the end. He is a cheating tool and has generally ranged from bad to dreadful in our games that he has officiated (including those on VAR)
 
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One of the many things that infuriated me about the referee today was stopping play for an opposition foul and not playing advantage when we had an overload. To make it worse, he didn't even book the offending player. Pep was fuming.
 
lasereyes said:
That's pretty arrogant. So you are the only person who apparently watches the game objectively. You are welcome to your opinion but you are IMO citing very minor things that supposedly favoured us while ignoring much more significant things that greatly favoured Brentford. In addition to letting them blatantly abuse throw-ins, he booked Nico for delaying a few seconds, allowed them to use the towel illegally, ignored Bobb's penalty shout, called Doku for handball when the linesman who was much closer didn't flag, and inexplicably allowed the game to go on for an extra minute at the end. He is a cheating tool and has generally ranged from bad to dreadful in our games that he has officiated (including those on VAR)
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It's not illegal to use a towel. As long as both teams are allowed to do so.
 
lasereyes said:
That's pretty arrogant. So you are the only person who apparently watches the game objectively. You are welcome to your opinion but you are IMO citing very minor things that supposedly favoured us while ignoring much more significant things that greatly favoured Brentford. In addition to letting them blatantly abuse throw-ins, he booked Nico for delaying a few seconds, allowed them to use the towel illegally, ignored Bobb's penalty shout, called Doku for handball when the linesman who was much closer didn't flag, and inexplicably allowed the game to go on for an extra minute at the end. He is a cheating tool and has generally ranged from bad to dreadful in our games that he has officiated (including those on VAR)
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Illegal towel ?
 
lasereyes said:
I dont recall any fouls their strikers could have got. What I do remember is Brentford being repeatedly allowed to take throws from way forward from where they are - which given their tactics was a huge advantage to them. It's beyond me how someone can have watched that and describe England's performance as "ok".
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There was one in their own half by the corner flag, by the time he released the ball for a throw the player was half way down the line, past the 18 yard box by a good 5 yards. Its totally unacceptable and the ref and assistant have no excuse not to stop it from happening.
 
richardtheref said:
It's not illegal to use a towel. As long as both teams are allowed to do so.
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I know its the rule, but have you noticed that the towels are never in the attacking half that we are attacking? The Brentford ground staff must have moved them around at half time and put them in the half that Brentford were attacking. There needs to be a tweak to that rule, where towels have to be supplied all around the pitch or not at all
 
New tactic for Pep. When we’re 3-0 up against Brentford at home, bring Donnarumma up to take a throw. I bet he could throw the ball off the other side of the pitch if he wanted. Waste a bit of time and take the piss out of the Stoke replicants. Pgmol would also have a hissy fit.
 
AirbagsOptionalTheReturn said:
I know its the rule, but have you noticed that the towels are never in the attacking half that we are attacking? The Brentford ground staff must have moved them around at half time and put them in the half that Brentford were attacking. There needs to be a tweak to that rule, where towels have to be supplied all around the pitch or not at all
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We could have just said no to the towels and they wouldn’t have been anywhere near the pitch.
For all the planning and professionalism at the club there are, on occasion, some unfathomable decisions made.
 
I thought the referee was ok. Obviously the throw ins and us somehow being carded for the time it took us to take a throw was laughable. But overall I don't think he was bad. I think different times he let the game flow. No issues really. Savinho needs to wise up, refs are on to his feigning injury and he won't get free kicks often, even if he has been fouled.
 
Kippax77 said:
Free kicks being taken quickly.
If you take it quick by kicking it at a retreating opposition player, that player then receives a yellow.
But if you take it too quickly say from the halfway line chasing an equaliser (as in Everton's case vs the dippers) the ref will book the taker.
Hmmm strange rules
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Theses refs make it up as they go along, when blasted it at Nunes I was fuming!
 
lasereyes said:
That's pretty arrogant. So you are the only person who apparently watches the game objectively. You are welcome to your opinion but you are IMO citing very minor things that supposedly favoured us while ignoring much more significant things that greatly favoured Brentford. In addition to letting them blatantly abuse throw-ins, he booked Nico for delaying a few seconds, allowed them to use the towel illegally, ignored Bobb's penalty shout, called Doku for handball when the linesman who was much closer didn't flag, and inexplicably allowed the game to go on for an extra minute at the end. He is a cheating tool and has generally ranged from bad to dreadful in our games that he has officiated (including those on VAR)
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Darren England has reffed us 10 times in the PL. We’ve won 9 and lost 1 of those games (B&HA, this season). He’s shown us 12 yellow cards in those games and 1 red whilst showing 24 yellows to the opposition.

He might not have been ‘great’ yesterday but he’s certainly not a referee I worry about affecting our games too badly, especially given his record when refereeing us.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
We could have just said no to the towels and they wouldn’t have been anywhere near the pitch.
For all the planning and professionalism at the club there are, on occasion, some unfathomable decisions made.
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There is no mention of use of towels, either way, in the laws of the game.

Every mention of it online comes back to a BBC article, called 'Ask Me Anything' where an unnamed journalist claims that in the Premier League " Clubs have to agree to the availability of towels around the field before the match. If no agreement can be made, towels cannot be used"

But there's no source cited where they've got this from, so I wouldn't be taking it as fact.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Darren England has reffed us 10 times in the PL. We’ve won 9 and lost 1 of those games (B&HA, this season). He’s shown us 12 yellow cards in those games and 1 red whilst showing 24 yellows to the opposition.

He might not have been ‘great’ yesterday but he’s certainly not a referee I worry about affecting our games too badly, especially given his record when refereeing us.
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He also (correctly) booked the Brentford player for simulation yesterday, which rarely happens in games these days.
 
lasereyes said:
That's pretty arrogant. So you are the only person who apparently watches the game objectively. You are welcome to your opinion but you are IMO citing very minor things that supposedly favoured us while ignoring much more significant things that greatly favoured Brentford. In addition to letting them blatantly abuse throw-ins, he booked Nico for delaying a few seconds, allowed them to use the towel illegally, ignored Bobb's penalty shout, called Doku for handball when the linesman who was much closer didn't flag, and inexplicably allowed the game to go on for an extra minute at the end. He is a cheating tool and has generally ranged from bad to dreadful in our games that he has officiated (including those on VAR)
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People bemoan the match day thread, but this is by far the worst on the forum.
 
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