Referee

[nopigfansintown]

What you can’t see with the penalty unless you were bang in line was how Cooper pulled out and the striker slowed down and slightly changed direction to initiate a collision. The ref bought it

It was a dive. To be fair to Sky they called it right. The refs positioning was as shocking as it was all night. He guessed.

 

[de g.]

It was a foul and a yellow, if that’s a red then ‘game’s gone’.

There was no last man and without that he was through on the keeper. It was blatantly denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity which has been a red as long as I've been reading the 'You are the Ref' column.

 

[Bladesman]

To repeat a Mick McCarthy classic when co-commentating on a match once .

" If the ref thinks that's 10 yards.... , I wouldn't buy a carpet off him"

It was embarrassing watching O'Hare literally walk the yards for him and them him somewhat deliberately walk incorrectly to get the number of "yards" he wanted.

You play that back to the PGMOL and I am not sure how they can not think this ref is either a fucking idiot, bias or bent.

 

[spongebobblade]

We bumped into 2 Southampton fans walking to the ground and by chance again on the way back. One had told us on the way there that his friend had been a fully qualified referee and officiated in the championship. On the way back he agreed the ref had been dreadful and pointed out he had officiated more championship matches than him. That must surely tell you something

 

[Bladesman]

We bumped into 2 Southampton fans walking to the ground and by chance again on the way back. One had told us on the way there that his friend had been a fully qualified referee and officiated in the championship. On the way back he agreed the ref had been dreadful and pointed out he had officiated more championship matches than him. That must surely tell you something

Seriously, it's about time some of the refs in this league and the PL start getting reprimanded.

At the moment most refs seem to think they ref every game perfectly, including their officials some of whom seem to struggle to keep up with play and seem to just guess whether its offside or a foul.

 

[Bladesince61]

Free kick is virtually on the 18 yard line. The penalty spot is 12 yards out so he marks the wall just behind it. An 8 year old kid would have known that isn't 10 yards. He didn't need to show himself up with steps. It's hard to believe a referee could be so thick.

 

[SuperSonicBlade89]

I wish someone would post a video of the "8 Mile Yard" incident.

 

[alcoblade]

I wish someone would post a video of the "8 Mile Yard" incident.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

But correct decision to disallow Peck’s late ‘goal’ - deffo foul on the keeper. We would have been fuming if that had been the other way round and had been allowed.

No we wouldn't. The game has gone soft. Absolute bollocks of a decision.

 

[Houston_Blade]

There was no last man and without that he was through on the keeper. It was blatantly denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity which has been a red as long as I've been reading the 'You are the Ref' column.

I’ll have to wait for the extended highlights for another replay. The couple of replays I saw at the time of the incident suggested to me that he was towards the right hand side of the area and not really bearing down on goal.

It looked to be a foul and a yellow. I don’t think it was a red in most people’s book and no one suggested it was at the time but happy to be proved wrong.

 

[Stretch]

As soon as we knew that the lead official did not know how to count 10 yards, our players should have tried to get the match abandoned. Nothing he did from that point on changed my view. An absolute dickhead, who threw away his professionalism and made things personal tonight.

 

[Gysbrechts_tash]

I've never seen anything like the 8 yard thing. Pretty much edge of the box to penalty spot so it was 6/7 yards at best, never mind counting 8 and sticking to it. Absolutely baffling!

Not why we lost but you could see just looking at it it wasn't 10 yards. Then hamer who is probably better from 25 yards has no room to drop it down. Infuriating decision.

 

[Grey Blade]

Just arrived home and have only skimmed through this. I very rarely criticise referees but tonight I was furious. It was obvious with the pitch markings that the wall was nowhere near 10 yards back. I would estimate 8 at the most and then the clown measured out 8 yards - they looked short yards as well!

The refereeing ruined what had been a good game and that isn't sour grapes because of the defeat.

Don't know what CW was thinking kicking the ball like he did - see there's a long thread regarding that which I can't be bothered to read at this time of night

 

[SuperSonicBlade89]

Zoomed into that clip as best as I could with the potato video quality and slowed it down.

8 and a quarter steps. Very uneven steps at that.

 

[bladesmanluke]

He simply cannot be allowed to ref another one of our games. I've never seen a ref so blatantly bent in my life

 

[Zero dark thirty]

0/10

Absolute shambles of a referee.... my word. Makes VAR look revolutionary.

Think his brother was ref at Birmingham tonight..set of cunts

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I once attended an event where former FIFA referee and Senior Blade George McCabe was the guest speaker. He told one story about how he mistakenly blew for full time five minutes early. By the time he realised his error, the teams were back in their dressing rooms, so he went into the dressing rooms and got both sets of players back out onto the pitch to play the missing five minutes.

He said that afterwards, he was told by those in high places that if he hadn't taken this action, he would have been finished as a referee. This is what should happen to the utter plank in charge tonight. Gone. Not even back to League 2, but to the Sheffield Bible Class League at best.

 

[Toronto Blade]

I once attended an event where former FIFA referee and Senior Blade George McCabe was the guest speaker. He told one story about how he mistakenly blew for full time five minutes early. By the time he realised his error, the teams were back in their dressing rooms, so he went into the dressing rooms and got both sets of players back out onto the pitch to play the missing five minutes.

He said that afterwards, he was told by those in high places that if he hadn't taken this action, he would have been finished as a referee. This is what should happen to the utter plank in charge tonight. Gone. Not even back to League 2, but to the Sheffield Bible Class League at best.

The plank that decided to put another plank from League 2 in charge of a big Championship clash should also be under a microscope .The whole experiment cost one club points lost and suspensions for red and yellow cards closer.What was there 4 yellows in the first half for dissent alone