WSL Chelsea (H) 08/10/23:

Kicking the ball away is a booking because it prevents the restart, in this case it didn't, as the restart wasn't for 15 more minutes, and I seriously doubt she could kick it that far, unless it landed on a tram of course.
She kicked it down towards Gorton, but the ref might have thought it could have bounced off the stand at the far end, bounced over the opposite stand and hit the Ashton tram. She could have put someone's eye out if they'd been sitting on the stadium side of the tram. The whistling wanker just had to stamp her authority on the game. She never understood from the kickoff what she was doing was destroying a couple of hours entertainment that the public had paid for. Her common sense amounted to the square root of fuck all.
 
From when the whistle blew to when she took the free kick was about 13/14 seconds not 26. Funny how goalkeepers in the PL can take 20 seconds or more from putting the ball down for a goal kick to taking it without punishment (unless it's Ederson). Likewise free kicks can take longer than a minute by the time the ref has marched a team back ten yards, then the keeper lines hos wall up etc. The ref in this game must have either done it to make a name for herself or because she had a bet. Either way she needs calling out and questions as to her suitability to ref such a high profile game have to be questioned.
I think we don't really need that extra bit about 'a high profile' game. She is clearly unsuitable material to ref any game of football. She displayed not an ounce, nay not a gramme, of player management skills. Her reffing reminded me of that 'Blobby Charlton PE teacher in Kes! Her strength was the application of some vague mathematical formulae - Ooooh, that's 26sec yer off, Oooooh yer've been sent to the ground in that tackle, yellow card, Oooooh, I don't particularly like Lauren Hemp so she can hit the ground and I begrudgingly give the free kick, but you sky blues can whistle for the yellow card, my arm is aching, I've held up enough yellow and red cards to last me a season.
 
The player I spoke with yesterday thinks that the ref initially went to book Greenwood not realising she already had done, but as she's already made the move to get the card out, had to follow through with it to save face. (I don't personally agree with this view cos it doesn't explain the rest).

The club are fuming, particularly with her walking off the pitch and down the tunnel smirking. The dressing room was in shock at her 'performance'. Chelsea players and staff were also baffled but Emma Hayes has come out afterwards and said different, which hasn't gone down too well either.
Having won the WSL title EH thinks she is God's Gift to the game. She came out the other week with a women's league that had neither relegation nor promotion, now she wants a league that's 50% bigger than the one we've got. Wonder how many CFC players would cop for an ACL injury in one of those extra games?
 
Basically, if you wait 26 seconds to take a free kick, you allow the referee to. make a decision. Then dissent is dissent.

Until we hear what form of words the dissent took I have a good number of refs in my database of Dissembling Bastards. And the specimen who turned up on Sunday was the latest addition.
 
Having won the WSL title EH thinks she is God's Gift to the game. She came out the other week with a women's league that had neither relegation nor promotion, now she wants a league that's 50% bigger than the one we've got. Wonder how many CFC players would cop for an ACL injury in one of those extra games?
I cant stand her and her mouth.
 
About the 26 seconds "delay", these are the numbers for last season in the Premier League, for context

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