The view from Oldham
"2-0 to the Ref
The worst ref I have seen for a long long time.
How we did not get a penalty !!
He gave Sheff every thing and was a disgrace. "
"Today was the worst display of refereeing i have seen in a long time, and im so annoyed thats all im going to say on todays match."
"I can't really comment on the refs performance as i still find it difficult to believe what I saw."
"Tarky should learn from their young CH Maguire on how to defend. he was superb for them today good young player who doesn't panic and uses his strength."
"We never made their goalie work hard enough. Ref was poor but also our team wasn't that good. Would like their CH Maguire in our team good solid player who did boss his area."
"Sheff will get auto promotion for a reason..they are big,good and have quality but we were not totally outclassed."
"If you could check the refs bank balance tonight you will probably find a nice deposit landing about 5 o'clock. Knew exactly what he was doing today. Bent for me."
"Maguire bossed his penalty area, very good player. "
"REF WAS SHOCKING they fell over ALL THE TIME.We never looked like scoring either.
Blatant pen on Simmo though in the 2nd half but the REF gave us nothing but we also made mistakes."
"A ref who dare not rule against a bigger club team. Please bring in someone who knows whats what about basic soccer,and NOT A RECYCLED ONE Like that reprebate WILSON (the cheating *******)"
"cheating barstewards. Shame they didnt come to play football just cheat and waste time oh and by the way the ref from Sheffield or what"
"Sounded like today's referee might feature in a bribery trial sometime soon."
"Referee apparently got a piggie player's shirt at the end. You could not make it up."
"I hope after all the trouble the ref went to today, his other matches on his accumulator did not let him down, that was possibly one of the worst I have ever seen."
"it sounds as though the ref might as well have put a red and white shirt on."
"Might sound daft to say this but I cant blame the sheffield players, they had the ref worked out, even with no challenge they went down, free kick given. The one with Obita when it should have been a corner was farcical, the lad flung himself and stayed down, very frustrating but the ref will still get a game somewhere
next week."
"They didnt win by playing football, the ref was in their pocket. Even there own subs bench remarked that they knew were our anger was coming from. The guy should never ref another match."
"If thats the way Wilson sets up his teams to play week in week out then I would rather watch us under Dickov in the last 10 games he was here!
Stalling tactics and **** football! Hill goes down holding his face in the first 5 mins under a challenge by Croft and set the tone, no contact but the ref gives it because a big club player hits the deck.
They had him in his pocket from the start!
Note to the capatin in this case Dean Furman - open your ****in mouth to the ref and stay in his ear all game! they did today and Gerrard showed how to do it for Liverpool, pester the **** out of him for every decision no matter how blatent it is.
No wonder Sheff Utd fans are not happy if thats the **** they watch"
" I have never seen such a pisspoor set of bad decisions and collisions with players in one game in my life. This one was seriously, seriously bad. There was one moment when the ball was in the air where he ran between a group of four players who were clearly going to be challenging for it. If that's not a foul on
Simpson, and I'll wait for TV evidence before I hang Woolmer for it, then Simpson has bottled out of nodding the ball into an empty net. Why would he?
He was utterly dereadful from start to finish. I didn't think much of Sheffield United either. And they milked his ****ness to the extreme once they were in front."
"Absolutely shocking performance from the referee today...hope his marks reflect this...BUT...we created hardly anything today, never got our passing going. A very average Blades team took the points today"
"I've not calmed down yet
Blantant outright cheating.
Biased favouritism.
One of the most shocking 'performances' i've ever seen from a ref.
It needs investigating that does...somethings fishy with the way he's refeered that today.
Awful.
I'm fuming."
"The problem is they don't investigate, carry on as you were. We can complain but it sounds like sour grapes. I just feel cheated, thought we were good for a point today."
"Echo all of the thoughts about this ref, not just ****, bent. Just before the Simpson penalty that wasn't there was an unmissable shirt pull on Obita, mandatory yellow, the player wasn't even spoken to. Unbelievable."
"That was a poor team selection i am afraid, we play a top premier league team away with Baxter and Furman in midfield then at home against a team of third division cloggers we go back to the dynamic, defensive duo of Furman and Wes.
Smith starting ( no disrespect to the lad himself ) acts only as an invitation to his teammates to launch the ball into the stratosphere"
"Kitson fouls a player. Nothing given. One of ours does similar. That's a foul. They took the piss all afternoon because he allowed them to. Weak referee, happy to side with them. Walking off arm in arm with one of their lads at half time. I mean really ****ing hell."
"Today was the worst display of refereeing i have seen in a long time the FA should sack him, he waited for all roads to clear and the fans to go home before he came out my mate was telling me."
"Listened to the Sufc commentary at times today, even they could understand the crowds frustration. They admitted that ALL the big decisions went their way!"
"How many times did we force a save from the Sheff U 'keeper? Once?!"
"After 3 wins over the teams as out of form as us , Pompey MK Dons & Stevenage , we played a team in form.
Who didn't think at half time that it was only a matter of time before our back 5 fell apart in front of a Rocky Road End with 2,000 plus away fans in ?
This time it was our hapless centre half & keeper who gave the presents .
Their keeper was a spectator until the late efforts of Smith.
Sheff U the latest of many to win league games here in a canter.
The ref was poor , but not as poor as our team."
"They stopped Jose and kept it niggly and stopped us playing. When we got on top they slowed it down with their gamesmanship. Horrible team."
"We lost to the best team in the league. What do you expect? I thought we played well, if we got anything from this game it would have been a bonus"
"They haven't lost away in the league since Nov so it will be tough no matter how poorly the fans think they are playing"
"Leyton Orient had 20 shots (14 on target) against them in their last match"
"I'd love to have their problem of only being 2nd!"
"I've seen them twice this season and they've been very average both times. Oldham should have won both games"
"They seem to lack a bit of quality, they are very beatable just we have not managed to do it."
"I feel totally sick, Oldham lost 2-0 to that horrible team"
"Awful match! Least said about ref the better! And Sheff U! #HORRIBLECLUB"
"sheffield united fans have no brain cells between the lot of them, jesus I thought people in oldham were bad!"
"sheffield united=cheating basterds"
