Big team sympathy Referee

[boo radley]

Got one today.

 

[HydeParkBlade]

Chester should be off. Mcg was clean through

 

[Topplayersleave]

BBC have also got 51% - 49% possession in "VILLA'S FAVOUR"
OMFG !!!!!!!!!

 

[BrinsworthBlade]

Never trust the BBC stats

 

[siblade]

Quite a few iffy decisions, still only one team in it UTB

 

[Pompey_Blade]

BBC got 53 to villa now

 

[Topplayersleave]

47% - 53% Possession now in Villa's favour

I just hope we don't relax in the 2nd half, I still don't feel confident when we shut the shop up. You just can't where United are concerned

 

[dazzlingblade]

Got one today.

I take it he is giving villa nothing at all???

 

[Topplayersleave]

There's been more fouls given against United in one half of football than there was in their previous two games combined.
Wonder why that is ?

 

[Iceybabey]

Thought we didn't get any sympathy today in fact I though..... Oh I see, you meant Villa

 

[Large Mendonca]

It gets very annoying - we hardly ever get a homer

 

[Foxy]

Very poor officiating throughout today.

So many ridiculous examples to discuss.

Thankfully, them Blades put the result beyond influence.

 

[boo radley]

Original tread started about HT but it continued through the second half.

 

[ForgeBlade]

He was horrific. Lapped up all their playacting and clearly wanted a Villa win.

However.

Sheffield United 4 - 1 Aston Villa plus referee.

 

[bromtom]

I would bet £1 GBP that Billy wasn't offside too.

Although I'll let that lino off a bit because he told a Villa player to coco when he wanted a throw in. Started waggling his leg around and it was amusing.

 

[Blade56]

Tbf when we scored our 3rd Girlish was kicking off at him and he put his fingers to his lips.

Glad he didn't fall for Girlish's tantrumesk display looking for a free kick throwing himself on the ground thrashing about, embarrassing.

Hope Girlish makes the 'let's all laugh at diving' spot on football a.m.

 

[spongebobblade]

Chester should be off. Mcg was clean through

Not too dissimilar to Coadys dismissal involving Leon against Wolves last season. The ref knew if he gave the foul it had to be red. Gutless ref who pampered to the big boys so often it was embarrassing

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

Poor ref, gave Villa plenty and us next to nowt. Hope we marked him down.

 

[Rob86]

Got one today.

100% And they still got fucking done ! Incredible how Grealish didn’t get at least booked for kicking out after Basham err slipped into him !

 

[Toronto Blade]

Yep Grealish raked Bash's achilles from behind filthy player, weak ref.

 

[1889]

The ref made some unbelievably bad decisions today, off the top of my head

There was the trip on McGoldrick, for which he didn't even give a free kick
The foul on Sharp that he gave the other way
The blatant back pass towards the end that the keeper picked up
Lafferty shielding the ball in the corner, gets pushed over and he gave the free kick to Villa

I'd say he was absolutely fucking clueless, but that would flatter him

 

[Northyorksblade]

As good as the referee was v Bolton, he was as bad. Blowing the whistle every few seconds. And seriously favoured Villa.

 

[ChemEngBlade]

He was horrific. Lapped up all their playacting and clearly wanted a Villa win.

However.

Sheffield United 4 - 1 Aston Villa plus referee.

So many times it seemed today that the ref was determined to get a Villa win, McG's clear goal-scoring opportunity not being given is a total travesty and should surely be looked at again.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Got one today.

Father-in-law (a pig) asked me “how bad were Villa?” (Notice how he started it by asking not how good we might have been....?)

He mentioned that he hates Villa more than he hates us.

He also reminded me that last season Wendy committed 19 fouls against the game at Hillsborough last season.

Villa??

1.

One foul all game.

 

[S64 Blade]

There was a free kick in the second half that was one of the most baffling decisions I’ve ever seen in football. Should have been ours, but they got it.

The ref tried his very best to give them a lifeline. Alas, it failed.

 

[ucandomagic]

One quite funny incident in the 6th minute with the ref - we took a free kick quickly and the ref pulled it back for absolutely no reason. Ollie then put the retaken free kick on Jack’s head for our first goal.

God saying fuck you to the ref I reckon!

 

[boo radley]

Father-in-law (a pig) asked me “how bad were Villa?” (Notice how he started it by asking not how good we might have been....?)

He mentioned that he hates Villa more than he hates us.

He also reminded me that last season Wendy committed 19 fouls against the game at Hillsborough last season.

Villa??

1.

One foul all game.

It's like the BBC sports headline that starts
" Aston villa thrashed at Bramall Lane". Which has now become, " Players must look at themselves - Bruce".
Notice the lack of focus on us.

 

[bromtom]

It's like the BBC sports headline that starts
" Aston villa thrashed at Bramall Lane". Which has now become, " Players must look at themselves - Bruce".
Notice the lack of focus on us.

This report is a fucking joke.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45304576

We get a paragraph at the bottom. Villa this, Bruce that. As though it was entirely a mistake on their part and not due to the fact that we played some of the best football you could ever wish to see.

Not even a picture of a goal or us celebrating. Absolute bastards, I'd complain but it means shit all.

At least Sky have this picture on their report, correctly titled "rampant Blades demolish Villa"

 

[coaxingstar71]

At least the ref was consistent, in that he consistently gave them all the decisions and consistently gave us nothing. Apart from the ones already mentioned, there were 2 nasty fouls after the ball had gone that the ref didn't think even warranted a booking, one by Grealish on O'Connell in the first half (incidentally, Grealish could have easily been sent off by a different ref as he should have got booked for his petulant kick at Basham too). There was another on Basham in the 2nd half but I'm not sure which Villa player committed the foul.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

It’s not often that a ref gets booed off at half time ... when we are 3-0 up!

Those few seconds at around 3:50pm kind of summed up the whole game, for me