Dogawful Officiating

[Magpie]

8 minutes ago, Rod said:

Six and half a dozen.  Referee got it bang on.

It's a foul and a red all day long man

[Kaizero]

2 hours ago, The Butcher said:

 

 

I mean, seems like fatherhood has calmed down the butcherin' instinct in you, @The Butcher  

 

Horrible, dogawful even, officiating – but old Butcher's take on that would've been:

 

:lol: 

[Mike]

Shocked Liverpool got help from the ref at the end of a match.

[Mike]

Is there no VAR at the cup matches as a reminder of how fucking shit they were before it?

[nufc123]

Another VAR shambles in the West Ham Brighton game.

[geordie_b]

 

Up there with Ben Thatcher if that connects but instead gets nothing...

[BergenMagpie]

Crazy that that's not a red 

[Kid Icarus]

Vogue-ing isn't a red card 

[Cf]

That's as clear a red as you'll see. 

[Teslact]

On the US analysis just now, Robbie Earle said he thought Pedro did it as a joke for "like do that again and you'll get one of these". Howay man, the force on that would have smashed his cheek bones in if it had landed. I don't think he knew the other player had moved away and was extremely lucky.

[Pilko]

Blimey, just watching that footage for the first time. The lad's jaw would have ended up in Row Z if that connected with him. Ridiculous how that's not a red, VAR absolutely all over the place there.

[Pokerprince2004]

Just saw Hurzeler's interview and he was  asked if he thought it was a red he said no then snapped at the journo saying 'have you ever played football before?'  tickled me after the Villa match thread...

 

 

[Lush Vlad]

Absolutely bonkers that he wasn’t sent off before it even got to VAR. Ref is stood right next to him. Disgraceful that VAR didn’t deem that a clear and obvious mistake. 
 

Reminded me of an incident when I was playing years ago. Against a bit of a rough team. They were dirty as fuck and had a rowdy home crowd. So the ref was scared to make decisions. A lad threw a punch at me after a bit of afters. I ducked out the way. Ref booked us both and said “if that punch would have connected. You would have been off.”  

 

Seems similar applies here. Throw deliberate elbows all you want. Only a red if it connects. 

[toon25]

15 hours ago, geordie_b said:

 

Up there with Ben Thatcher if that connects but instead gets nothing...

 

Fucking cowardly, anyone that does that.

[toon25]

15 hours ago, geordie_b said:

 

Up there with Ben Thatcher if that connects but instead gets nothing...

 

Andy Townsend: 'He looks like he's signalling to the referee there'.

 

Prick.

[Sima]

2 hours ago, Lush Vlad said:

Absolutely bonkers that he wasn’t sent off before it even got to VAR. Ref is stood right next to him. Disgraceful that VAR didn’t deem that a clear and obvious mistake. 
 

Reminded me of an incident when I was playing years ago. Against a bit of a rough team. They were dirty as fuck and had a rowdy home crowd. So the ref was scared to make decisions. A lad threw a punch at me after a bit of afters. I ducked out the way. Ref booked us both and said “if that punch would have connected. You would have been off.”  

 

Seems similar applies here. Throw deliberate elbows all you want. Only a red if it connects. 

Refs are fucking cowards now and hide behind VAR.
 

So much so that I don’t think Anthony Taylor sent Duran off the other day of his own free will.

[huss9]

soft pel for villa tonight.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Just now, huss9 said:

soft pel for villa tonight.

 

Extremely, and for Ipswich against Chelsea.

[toon25]

Another fucking joke.

[nemtizz]

Dog nonce

[Skeletor]

One of the most blatantly corrupt and biased performances I've seen. They literally broke Gordon's nose, not even a penalty or a booking (never mind a red card as it should have been).

[Begbie]

This refs performance reminded me of the Ferguson days in the 90s. 

[nemtizz]

2 minutes ago, Skeletor said:

One of the most blatantly corrupt and biased performances I've seen. They literally broke Gordon's nose, not even a penalty or a booking (never mind a red card as it should have been).

 

Didn't think it was a pen personally, but the fact he gave freekick and Botman a yellow for the same thing was absurd.

[Checko]

13 minutes ago, nemtizz said:

 

Didn't think it was a pen personally, but the fact he gave freekick and Botman a yellow for the same thing was absurd.

Yeah those 'I'm just going to run straight into the defender and throw myself to the floor' freekicks are the worst.

[Pilko]

17 minutes ago, Skeletor said:

One of the most blatantly corrupt and biased performances I've seen. They literally broke Gordon's nose, not even a penalty or a booking (never mind a red card as it should have been).

 

Yep. And as others have said, to book Botman for a lesser similar challenge was an extra insult. Absolute fucking wanker with the whistle today.