Referee

[Belvedere Blade]

 

[Bladesman]

 

[bladesince64]

That ref was an absolute disgrace!

The number of times their 'players' lunged dangerously at our players deliberately following through on tackles was outrageous.

The ones on Sereki were bad enough and I honestly thought that the one on Tanganga would see him carried off it was so reckless.

Imagine if any of our players had done any of them (probably half a dozen or so) with the thousands of outraged squeeling piggies baying for red cards.

 

[Rochdaleblade]

It wasn't exactly difficult to spot.

 

[Bath Blade]

I liked the fact that he let a lot go, but that was a shocking decision. The tackle was so late that I think the ref followed the ball and missed the late tackle.

 

[Bladesman]

 

[blades_95]

Felt like the referee was joining in with the Wednesday pity party yesterday in not giving some basic decisions - honestly baffling.

 

[Jon B]

Outside the Premier League the Ref can only give what he or his assistants actually see.

VAR would have probably led to bookings etc for the Wednesday players involved.

But who wants VAR?

 

[LBA_Blade]

It’s not only a foul is bordering on a red card in my personal opinion at least a yellow and that’s not with tinted specs on. The Laws of the game on free kicks use the “traffic light system” careless = free kick only, reckless = yellow card plus free kick and use of excessive force red card plus free kick.

The Wednesday player has dived in with studs raised from a distance (not careless) l would say the run and jump is excessive

 

[LBA_Blade]

Outside the Premier League the Ref can only give what he or his assistants actually see.

VAR would have probably led to bookings etc for the Wednesday players involved.

But who wants VAR?

I said this in a thread a few years ago but I would like all professional games for referees to have some form of head cam, whether that is glasses with the camera attached or something attached to the head. So in incidents like this, the scrutiny can happen post match as needed. On this occasion, I can’t see how he didn’t see it but on some occasions we criticise the referee for missing something however our elevated view point in the stands without players blocking your view sometimes leads to the wrong opinion. Referees are human and just like footballers they don’t give a decision based on merit (mistake or not) but there could be a reason for it