Prem Officiating Abomination Journal 24/25

[st albans fox]

Just now, CosbehFox said:

It was a Villa throw in. Vardy touched the ball, Tielemans follows through 

It shouldn’t have been a villa throw 

vardy never touched the ball 

[themightyfin]

10 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

You can groan about his decision making - I thought it was a clear panelty on Vardy and Tielemans knew it from his reaction. 
 

However how many times does a ref get hit by the ball three times? That’s just poor officiating. 

Never a penalty in a million years. 

Yiu have had an absolute shocker there calling that a pen. 

[CosbehFox]

4 minutes ago, billyfox1 said:

Tielemans was definitely first to the ball on the replay

Why was it a Villa throw in then? 

[CosbehFox]

Just now, themightyfin said:

Never a penalty in a million years. 

Yiu have had an absolute shocker there calling that a pen. 

At least we’ve got something to talk about now after that thrilling last week of the window as predicted 

[CosbehFox]

2 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

It shouldn’t have been a villa throw 

vardy never touched the ball 

But it was. That actually happened. So the ref has said Vardy touched the ball. 

[Jonezy]

Skipp took ball and man from behind, when the guy was breaking clear. In modern football that will be a freekick most of the time. Yellow felt harsh though.

 

The ball hit the ref and redirected into Skipps path for the disallowed goal. Not much to do about that.

 

Tielemans clearly hit the ball first before clashing with Vardy.

 

This was a solid ref performance. Reserve your anger till we get proper shafted.

[CosbehFox]

2 minutes ago, Jonezy said:

Skipp took ball and man from behind, when the guy was breaking clear. In modern football that will be a freekick most of the time. Yellow felt harsh though.

 

The ball hit the ref and redirected into Skipps path for the disallowed goal. Not much to do about that.

 

Tielemans clearly hit the ball first before clashing with Vardy.

 

This was a solid ref performance. Reserve your anger till we get proper shafted.

That’s one description I wouldn’t use even if you agreed with his decision making. 

[westernpark]

Regardless of decisions, it was poor refereeing, the amount of times he was in the way of the ball, stopped us passing through the lines a few times.

[st albans fox]

7 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

But it was. That actually happened. So the ref has said Vardy touched the ball. 

So the ref thinks vardy touches the ball 

he maybe gives a pen 

the var would over rule cos it just wasn’t.  the only way that could be a pen is if tielemans clears the ball and goes through the man recklessly. But he didn’t so it wasn’t. 

 

the throw in should have been ours - thats all - and we wasted the time we had left to equalise by arguing about it for 45 seconds 

Edited 31 August by st albans fox

[Les-TA-Jon]

Ref stopped the game and ruled our goal out because it hit him, then later in the game the ref played on after it hit him? So…?

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

Ref stopped the game and ruled our goal out because it hit him, then later in the game the ref played on after it hit him? So…?

On our ‘goal’ the ball deflected into the path of our runner when it wasn’t headed for him before the deflection.  Late in the game the touch off the ref had no material effect on the movement of the ball to our player - so he played on 

[Les-TA-Jon]

Just now, st albans fox said:

On our ‘goal’ the ball deflected into the path of our runner when it wasn’t headed for him before the deflection.  Late in the game the touch off the ref had no material effect on the movement of the ball to our player - so he played on 

But is that the rule? The ref appeared to stop the game every time it touched him, apart from that one time he didn’t. 
 

so wild inconsistency and terrible game management 

[st albans fox]

Just now, Les-TA-Jon said:

But is that the rule? The ref appeared to stop the game every time it touched him, apart from that one time he didn’t. 
 

so wild inconsistency and terrible game management 

If the touch of the ref has a material impact on the movement of the ball then the game stops and it’s a drop ball to the side who would have had possession 

on winks’ clearance, it wasn’t clear who would have got the ball so he just asked them to give it back to us 

 

but he shouldn’t be getting in the way of the ball that many times - poor positioning by him 

[Les-TA-Jon]

Just now, st albans fox said:

If the touch of the ref has a material impact on the movement of the ball then the game stops and it’s a drop ball to the side who would have had possession 

on winks’ clearance, it wasn’t clear who would have got the ball so he just asked them to give it back to us 

 

but he shouldn’t be getting in the way of the ball that many times - poor positioning by him 

We’re referring to different incidents then.  There was an incident after our ‘equaliser’ the ball clearly hit the ref but he played on regardless. Probably didn’t dare stop the game again! 

[moore_94]

It isn’t just decisions that was the issue with him, it was him taking SO long during those decisions to let play start again

 

wtf was he doing for the drop ball outside our box - he didn’t help himself at all by making it look like he doesn’t know what to do

[st albans fox]

Just now, Les-TA-Jon said:

We’re referring to different incidents then.  There was an incident after our ‘equaliser’ the ball clearly hit the ref but he played on regardless. Probably didn’t dare stop the game again! 

can’t remember for sure. - if it’s deflected away from its intended path then he is supposed to stop the game 

[OntarioFox]

1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

David Coote having an absolute shocker

You missed the N

[phoneticerror]

You simply cannot reason with that level of incompetence. However, all the berating probably didn’t help!

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, moore_94 said:

It isn’t just decisions that was the issue with him, it was him taking SO long during those decisions to let play start again

 

wtf was he doing for the drop ball outside our box - he didn’t help himself at all by making it look like he doesn’t know what to do

100% 

they wasted so much time and he just indulged them 

[Les-TA-Jon]

What was that weird moment in the 2nd half when Villa were preparing to take a freekick in right back position and the ref made them change the ball position a few times, then blew his whistle to halt the game and pointed around at all the Villa players and gave a sort of crossed raised arms signal? 
 

it was bizarre. I wondered if he was warning them all against timewasting? 

[st albans fox]

Just now, Les-TA-Jon said:

What was that weird moment in the 2nd half when Villa were preparing to take a freekick in right back position and the ref made them change the ball position a few times, then blew his whistle to halt the game and pointed around at all the Villa players and gave a sort of crossed raised arms signal? 
 

it was bizarre. I wondered if he was warning them all against timewasting? 

Yep - bizarre 

and another few seconds 

[holyfox]

26 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

You can groan about his decision making - I thought it was a clear panelty on Vardy and Tielemans knew it from his reaction. 
 

However how many times does a ref get hit by the ball three times? That’s just poor officiating. 

Was sitting close to the pitch in row E right in line with that foul on Vardy for the penalty.

The foul on Vardy looked so stone wall penalty. How the ref refused to go to VAR and get away with it, I haven’t a clue! Vardy clearly got to the ball first. But either way, how the hell doesn’t he go to VAR for such a decision??

 

I thought we gave them a tough game and on  another day could easily have won it. PS, Villa players are cheating time wasting ba**ards!

play like that with the new players only getting better, we have every chance of having a good season

[Big Dave]

1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

David Coote having an absolute shocker

What did he get wrong? Thought most decisions were correct.

[moore_94]

2 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

What was that weird moment in the 2nd half when Villa were preparing to take a freekick in right back position and the ref made them change the ball position a few times, then blew his whistle to halt the game and pointed around at all the Villa players and gave a sort of crossed raised arms signal? 
 

it was bizarre. I wondered if he was warning them all against timewasting? 

I think he was

 

 But let them carry on doing it anyway

[Les-TA-Jon]

2 minutes ago, Big Dave said:

What did he get wrong? Thought most decisions were correct.

Don’t think he made any specific howlers 

 

but I’d need to see the Skipp foul and the Vardy penalty shout again. 
 

but his overall game management was woeful. Wildly inconsistent about enforcing or not enforcing restart positions. Managed to get in the way of the ball 3-4 times. Was constantly in the way of Winks. 

kept whistling at Villa to hurry / warn them for timewasting but never booked anyone. 
 

in the first half board only added 2 mins when it should have been more, there was stoppages within the 2 mins and yet still blew up on 47:50 

 

managed to annoy both sets of fans, players and managers 

Edited 31 August by Les-TA-Jon