Refereeing

[busterish]

It's crap and just not fair

While in no way do I blame the ref for today's defeat, I thought he did as well as anyone, it was still pap.

Today the match was a non-contact sport. We might as well have been watching basketball. Every contact resulted in a free kick. The only time I remember him "playing on" was after Song had eventually got a yellow card after something like 10 fouls, he tackled Sess by the neck. Suarez would have been down like a bag of shit and Arsenal would have been down to 10 men. Sess tried to struggle free and was eventually out-manned. Honest endeavor is our worst enemy and we will never succeed. Sad but so true.

[Billy Fish]

Ref generally handled it well but there was one particular incident when Sess had it in their box and was shouldered off it by a defender (which I thought was fair enough and not a pen) but when Sess then went to get it back and shouldered back himself it's a free kick How does that work?

[chris_dunn59]

Originally Posted by Billy Fish

Ref generally handled it well but there was one particular incident when Sess had it in their box and was shouldered off it by a defender (which I thought was fair enough and not a pen) but when Sess then went to get it back and shouldered back himself it's a free kick How does that work?

Is it just me that thinks song should have walked? Already in the book he cynically tried to drag sess back, he wriggled free and ref played advantage, but a cynical pull like that should've been punished with a 2nd yellow.

[gipetto]

I always think Webb is fucking shocking against us.

[Confucius]

I like how someone facing their own goal can ROLL a ball backwards and a goalkeeper can pick it up.
Again as said above, Sess supposedly barges into Song in the corner he goes over and gets a free kick. Richardson in exactly the same corner gets barged over and it's a goal kick. Webb is wank

[Dogbark]

Originally Posted by chris_dunn59

Is it just me that thinks song should have walked? Already in the book he cynically tried to drag sess back, he wriggled free and ref played advantage, but a cynical pull like that should've been punished with a 2nd yellow.

No. He clearly saw it, but then pretended that he hadn't.

[murrayout]

I didn't see much particually bad. He was giving weak calls both ways.