Referees' Performances | 2025/26

cheekybids said:
There one & only booking was in the 43rd minute which was 2 players cynically stopping our break & finished with Anderson booked & pushing the ref whilst complaining.

I haven’t heard much about it, not when you consider the outrage when Sergio put his arm on the lines women.
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I know that I am as myopic as the next supporter, which is no doubt why I am so amused by Dyche moaning like a bitch about the performance of the referee.

I wonder what level Dyche would have reached had Rob Jones not given so many unwarranted decisions for fouls against City in his desire to create such an unlevel playing field and help Forest even more.

Having said that, I did feel that Forest did a very effective job of frustrating City in that first half with us having great difficulty finding space between their players.

Credit to Dyche for that formation .................no fuck him the moaning **** !
 
cheekybids said:
How could anyone not see the ref get pushed. Now imagine that was a City player & how many replays Sky would have shown by now.
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It would have been wall-to-wall coverage on SSN all day today, tomorrow & for the next week until the PL took action against the player. Ref Watch would have done a special report on it.
 
Colin Bells Boots said:
I know that I am as myopic as the next supporter, which is no doubt why I am so amused by Dyche moaning like a bitch about the performance of the referee.

I wonder what level Dyche would have reached had Rob Jones not given so many unwarranted decisions for fouls against City in his desire to create such an unlevel playing field and help Forest even more.

Having said that, I did feel that Forest did a very effective job of frustrating City in that first half with us having great difficulty finding space between their players.

Credit to Dyche for that formation .................no fuck him the moaning **** !
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The only time he deserves credit is when he's asleep.
 
blueste41 said:
It was a question not a point, the question was quite simple I thought-you stated that Forest fans are deluded so I asked which fans (along with us I assume) are not deluded?
I have no idea what evidence you can have that backs up " there is a greater expectation from fans and management of other clubs like forest, palace, villa etc for things to go their way than when they play liverpool, utd, and arsenal." but I can't wait to see it! For reference Forest fans were claiming that we were protected today because "we are a big club" so it seems they lump us in with the team you referenced.
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They do. But just to take one example of why they are wrong to do so, many opposition fans complain, with some justification, that if a referee gives a decision against a big club, it gets analysed to death to show why it was wrong. The argument goes that if you make a big call against a big team and get it wrong you will be pilloried so that leads to unconscious bias in favour of those clubs. When it’s United Liverpool or Arsenal I get that. We have seen it happen time and time again, We are however said to benefit from the same protection, which is just deluded. When was a bad decision against City subjected to that style of forensic scrutiny? The Cup final? Nope. The non-penalty on Bobb against Spurs? Nope. The non penalty on Foden against Newcastle? Nope.

Contrast that with the scrutiny if we get a dodgy decision in our favour, exactly like the non red card. There is no short of media scrutiny then.

The Forest fans are correct to say that with certain teams decisions against them get analysed to the Nth degree to show why they are wrong. They are just wrong to say that we are one of those teams.
 
Jarred Gillett is ref versus Sunderland.

Third time this season - Wolves and Swansea games.

Looking at his stats he has never been involved as ref for an Everton or Liverpool game. He seems to avoid their matches.
 
simmo said:
Jarred Gillett is ref versus Sunderland.

Third time this season - Wolves and Swansea games.

Looking at his stats he has never been involved as ref for an Everton or Liverpool game. He seems to avoid their matches.
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He's a dipper.

Banks on VAR likewise.

It's like La Liga in the 90s - too many refs support the same club. I doubt that has much bearing on the ones wanting to put their career first. Jones, Kavanagh (who's reffing dips V Leeds) and England would proudly wear Scouse shirts if they were allowed.
 
simmo said:
Jarred Gillett is ref versus Sunderland.

Third time this season - Wolves and Swansea games.

Looking at his stats he has never been involved as ref for an Everton or Liverpool game. He seems to avoid their matches.
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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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Forrest are asking the Premier League for explanations of Saturday's decesions.
For once Ref Watch got it right.
Dias very fortunate not to go,O'Reilly fouled,so good goal.
My question: If Cherki hadn't scored,would we have been given a penalty?
 
fierydan said:
Forrest are asking the Premier League for explanations of Saturday's decesions.
For once Ref Watch got it right.
Dias very fortunate not to go,O'Reilly fouled,so good goal.
My question: If Cherki hadn't scored,would we have been given a penalty?
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Probably not as the ball was too high for O'Reilly to reach. - That fact it was a foul in the box would be ignored.
 
Forest asking for the VAR audio, could’t they just contact the match commentators they hear everything?

Moaning, whinging bunch of sore losers.

Just let them be on the end of a decision like we got in the FA Cup final, now that was something to really moan about.
 
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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