Referees' Performances | 2025/26

Mancini Manus Domini said:
So Aston Villa counter from the edge of their own box and Saka deliberately trips the Villa player. No yellow card and Sky quickly cut to Dua Lipa in the crowd.

At the end of the half Watkins and an Arsenal centre-back collapse in a heap as a Villa cross goes in. Play continues until the ref blows for halftime. The players are going off and you see Watkins gesturing he had arms wrapped around him. Nothing from Sky.
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As bent a performance by Arsenal loving England as youll ever see. Arsenal should have been down to 9. 18 fouls and 1 yellow before a late taking your shirt off booking. And now we have him on Var v Chelsea. Pgmol not even hiding it
 
.db. said:
He’s a good ref to a point, but one thing that does my head in with him (and a number of them now as it’s a growing trend with our refs) is that he gives free kicks for any and all contact where the player dives over after the slightest touch.

Fair enough football is not a collision sport like rugby, but football is a contact sport and should have a lot more ‘Play-ons’ called when things aren’t fouls just because a player has chosen to fall over.

It was one of the things I always used to prefer watching PL games over CL games in the past where CL refs have called these dives as fouls for decades and we didn’t in the PL, it was always a case of ‘get up you diving ****’ the game’s playing on… whereäs now the PL is reffed just like the CL with regards to this and Gillett is one of the worst for it.
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I watched the last 20/25 minutes of United last night, once Arsenal had clearly won and the 7.30 games were over. No idea who the ref was but he seemed to have arrived from the 1970s. Think he maybe gave two fouls the whole time I was watching, when he could quite easily have given 20. There was one incident where two Wolves players were simultaneously holding some United bloke and then a third can't have been impressed by their feeble efforts and came flying in and just completely took him out. Still no foul. Although tbf it might have been more an advantage than not seeing them, on that one.
 
And another blind ref and pointless VAR official helped Arsenal to win at Everton according to PL Key Match Incidents Panel. Admittedly they voted 3-2 implying it was subjective, but the report says Thierno Barry got the ball first and his boot was kicked by Saliba. If that's what the videos showed then how the hell can two well-qualified refs say the ref and VAR clown were correct?

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Key Match Incidents Panel: Everton wrongly denied penalty in Arsenal defeat

Everton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal, the Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel has said.
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East Level 2 said:
And another blind ref and pointless VAR official helped Arsenal to win at Everton according to PL Key Match Incidents Panel. Admittedly they voted 3-2 implying it was subjective, but the report says Thierno Barry got the ball first and his boot was kicked by Saliba. If that's what the videos showed then how the hell can two well-qualified refs say the ref and VAR clown were correct?

www.bbc.co.uk

Key Match Incidents Panel: Everton wrongly denied penalty in Arsenal defeat

Everton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal, the Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel has said.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Added to the farce we were subjected to at Newcastle its a 5 point swing.
 
Toney’s bookie said:
So 2 out of the top 3 English refs are Mancs. I still find it odd that Alty and Kavanagh are allowed to referee derbies.
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Archaic FA rules.



Both moved from the Manchester FA to be able to do it.


Alty moved to London so he could do any game. As did Mike Dean so he could ref Merseyside Derbies.
 
East Level 2 said:
And another blind ref and pointless VAR official helped Arsenal to win at Everton according to PL Key Match Incidents Panel. Admittedly they voted 3-2 implying it was subjective, but the report says Thierno Barry got the ball first and his boot was kicked by Saliba. If that's what the videos showed then how the hell can two well-qualified refs say the ref and VAR clown were correct?

www.bbc.co.uk

Key Match Incidents Panel: Everton wrongly denied penalty in Arsenal defeat

Everton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal, the Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel has said.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Surely they didn’t get the penalty because the ball was gone ? In which case are we due some penalties ?
 
TinFoilHat said:
Archaic FA rules.



Both moved from the Manchester FA to be able to do it.


Alty moved to London so he could do any game. As did Mike Dean so he could ref Merseyside Derbies.
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Anthony Taylor lives near Sainsbury’s in Altrincham. He goes running on the track at Timperley Sports Club.
 
Didn’t think he was that bad at all until he blew early, which I found really weird because if Sunderland are on the ball there, he’s letting play go on.
 
Not the worst, let tasty challenges from both sides go so reasonably even handed. Noticeable though that any contact by Haaland is a foul, any contact on him isn’t
 
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