Dogawful Officiating

[Guest neesy111]

Ref was such a homer.

[midds]

Ref was such a homer.

 

He gave us 4 free kicks in the entire match.

[newsted]

I'd never noticed Mahrez likes a dive so much before. Ref kept buying it. Goddammit. Great player, but he can fuck off with that, the cheating forrin. (Stays firmly in my fantasy team)

[Leazes_End_Mag]

Sissoko's tackle on Mitrovic was a nailed on pen.

[geordiesteve710]

Ref was such a homer.

 

This is it, nothing too outrageous (pen call was 50-50 in my opinion), but quite content to let the Leicester fans referee for him and to not go spoiling their "fairytale story" or anything daft like that.

[Nobody]

So sick of defenders being allowed to do pretty much whatever they want to Mitrovic without it being a foul.

[Wallsendmag]

I gave up on getting a fair cracking from referees a long time ago. There's only 2 decent refs in the entire league (Clattenburg and Oliver) and with them both being Toon fans neither of them can ref us anyway. Not a pen last night but Man Utd got a pen when the ball hit Mbembas arm from a foot away. Aye OK.

[Guest firetotheworks]

It's flown under the radar because of the result and the lack of a huge decision, but yet again Martin Atkinson was absolutely terrible and consistently favoured the opposition. He's terrible at his job.

[Kaizero]

It's flown under the radar because of the result and the lack of a huge decision, but yet again Martin Atkinson was absolutely terrible and consistently favoured the opposition. He's terrible at his job.

 

Can't fathom that he's the chosen English ref for the EC. Madness.

[Figures 1-0 Football]

The referees are far too protected imo, the assessor at todays game must SURELY have seen a terrible performance - yet he'll still get a game to ref next week.

 

The only time they get taken off ref'ing duties is when a big club gets a decision against them and the media run with it.

 

That little scrote who ruined the away game against the mackems (Madley) has horrific performances week in, week out but is still given top games to referee.

[samag]

It's flown under the radar because of the result and the lack of a huge decision, but yet again Martin Atkinson was absolutely terrible and consistently favoured the opposition. He's terrible at his job.

i thought he bottled a few decisions  yesterday

[Karjala]

That Mitrovic shoulder 'foul' has to be one of the worst decisions ive seen. The bloke is fucking clueless.

[geordiesteve710]

Every 50/50 went their way. Seemed to take the shift in momentum at the end personally and did everything in his power to slow the game down, break up play etc.

[huss9]

mitro should have had a pen second half. clearly impeded when running through by having his shirt pulled.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

The wrestle in the first half was insane, literally a rugby tackle.

[triggs]

Didn't think he was biased really, just absolutely shit. Colback should definitely have been sent off and got away with 3 or 4 clear fouls added to the ones he did give away

[M4]

I liked how we got a corner but he blew for half time anyway. That was really neat.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I liked how we got a corner but he blew for half time anyway. That was really neat.

 

I never understand why people have a problem with when the whistle goes. The time was up wasn't it?

[Leazes_End_Mag]

That Mitrovic shoulder 'foul' has to be one of the worst decisions ive seen. The bloke is f***ing clueless.

Incredible decision. Sheer strength isn't allowed apparently.

[M4]

I liked how we got a corner but he blew for half time anyway. That was really neat.

 

I never understand why people have a problem with when the whistle goes. The time was up wasn't it?

 

If there's an offensive play underway it is normally allowed to go on. I'll agree this isn't much of a big deal and I'm just being deliberately awkward, but in that particular case you usually see the team get to play the corner until it's cleared.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Suppose, aye. It's unlucky but it's probably correct.

[Ashley17]

They scored right on half time anyway, so there should have been more time added on. It was a dick move blowing for half time

[LoveItIfWeBeatU]

No Sunderland players were booked were they? Most of our players were booked for a foul they committed after being fouled themselves where the ref didn't even blink and let play continue.

 

Stopping the game during a Newcastle attack as a Sunderland player was down with cramp took the piss.

 

I genuinely think the refs hate us for some reason.

[joeyt]

Mannone was booked eventually for time wasting I think

[Guest Gino14]

There's a consistent stat in these games where no matter how many fouls Sunderland commit, they always have a lower booking per foul ratio.  I don't know how they manage it.  I know some of our players are daft and dive it, but today we had 60% possession and yet still committed double the fouls Sunderland did.  Are we such a dirty team or do we just not get given the free kicks?  I'd also suggest that we don't go on cynically enough now compared to most.  It's not something I like to see, but there seemed to be a thing in place at Sunderland where almost every foul was accompanied by a scream from one of their players.  It seemed like a deliberate ploy to get free kicks.  We don't seem to have a lot of that, or at least we don't do it well.  It seems too easy for refs to ignore us somehow.  Look at the low amount of penalties we've had in the last few seasons and some have been so ridiculous that they defy belief.

 

Martin Atkinson though I find generally shocking.  He's one of those refs where I know his name so well because of all his highlighted mistakes.  I never expect much when we get a ref like that.  It just seems like we don't have the refs onside with us at all, whether it's just some psychological shift causing that, I don't know, but we don't seem to get a great lot from any of them.