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I asked how does it make sense not can you find a stupid rule to support it.
I asked how does it make sense not can you find a stupid rule to support it.
It was an even match until the cards.Dreadful decision. He gave 2 yellow cards in the first half, both to Herrera. Of the two offences, they barely made the top 10 of worst fouls in the half.
Compare that to Harry Arter getting away with a second yellow for a sliding tackle on Pogba last weekend.
United were looking pretty comfortable until the red card. It was a huge decision.
The Celtic fans noticed him!The standard of refereeing in this league is dreadful and has been for quite some time now. Referees seem to want to be in the center of attention all the time. I watched the Celtic vs Rangers game last weekend and I did not once notice the referee; that is how it should be.
The narrow back 4 with deep wingers was an interesting formation and it was stifling Chelsea's attacking play. As the game opened up, Rashford and Mkhitaryan would have been a real threat on the counter attack. Just a real shame.It was an even match until the cards.
Chelsea are an excellent team. They did not need the cnut to give the match to them.
It could have gone either way.
None of this is in the actual laws of the game. This is an interpretation (from 2009) of what one football federation thinks should be applied (the same nation that thought every drawn game should end with a 45-yard shootout).
But he found it on the internet, it must be true!None of this is in the actual laws of the game. This is an interpretation (from 2009) of what one football federation thinks should be applied (the same nation that thought every drawn game should end with a 45-yard shootout).
Absolutly none of this is a part of the actual rules, let alone an interpretation made by someone in this country - where the actual infringement took place. It's not even an opinion conjured up in the same decade.
after that talk with Smalling, he was waiting to make his point and he did. by sending off a player for a nothing foul and ruining an important football match.. or at least the FA would seem to think it was.Yes I'm bitter but a Chelsea player wouldn't be off like Herrera y'day.
Oliver might well have let Ander away without a card for his last foul if it was another player. If that trip had been on Matic or Kante maybe the ref would give us the benefit of the doubt as he might think it was accidental. Our treatment of Hazard seemed to have made up the refs mind that this was an intentional trip on him and a card.Jones commits a load of fouls so he sends Ander off. How does that make any sense?
Book Jones if he oversteps the mark his fouls should have no bearing on Ander's disciplinary record.
It's like a cop pulling you over and arresting you because your mate is drunk.
As I said earlier he should have booked Jones for his 4 fouls on Hazard. Passing that booking on to Ander for nothing was ridiculous.Oliver might well have let Ander away without a card for his last foul if it was another player. If that trip had been on Matic or Kante maybe the ref would give us the benefit of the doubt as he might think it was accidental. Our treatment of Hazard seemed to have made up the refs mind that this was an intentional trip on him and a card.
He gave the Chelsea player the choice of who to book and Hazard chose Herrera. When hazard gets the ball with his back to goal his body is so low to the ground and when he turns most of the time he hits the deck. When he hits the floor he actually impedes the opposing player turning and running for that ball and a few times i have seen this it is hazard that is actually fouling. When he pulls it off it looks magnificent but most of the time he is thinking of the foul.As I said earlier he should have booked Jones for his 4 fouls on Hazard. Passing that booking on to Ander for nothing was ridiculous.
Sorry but that's one of the strangest analogies I've ever heard. Is it a traumatic memory from your childhood or something?Not only I am unimpressed by Oilver getting conned 2x by wobbly legs Hazard, I am thoroughly unimpressed by his lack of temperament on the 2nd decision. If he was truly "exasperated" by the continuous cynical fouling of Hazard and actually warned that the next person to foul Hazard would get a card, then he should never ref another game in the EPL. The refs have to be objective, assess each situation on its own and above all else never lose their tempers. Its akin to a parent on a roadtrip with small children giving a ultimatum to their misbehaviour in the backseat and then turning the car around when they screw up, cancelling the vacation. He lost the plot with that decision and ruined the game.
This. I must have said that 10 times already today.Mike Dean is a fecking cnut
My thoughts exactly. He was so pedantic over the free kicks, even though we nearly always played a backwards/sideways pass when the ball was slightly in motion. We weren't exactly gaining an advantage from it. A bit of common sense needs to be applied. In the first half, they intentionally blocked us from taking a quick free kick (something the same ref gave Juan Mata one of two yellows that had him sent off last season) and Dean blamed it on Young, telling him not to do that and to wait.I don't think you can point to many incidents today and blame Dean for making a poor call, but his game management is just appealing. They were time-wasting from the first minute, and he told them to hurry up at their very first throw-in - yet he doesn't add sufficient time and doesn't book any of them (Foster spent about 30 seconds per goal kick the entire game). Every time we tried to take a quick free kick he took it back, because the ball was moving every so slightly when it was taken - why the feck does that matter? It like that every time he's on the pitch - he cares way too much about small details like that and completely ignores other parts.
Yup perfect summary of what happened today. I was at the ground and the ref was getting a lot of abuse, quite rightly so, for not hurrying up Foster with his goal kicks. It wasn't just goal kicks though. Whenever a throw in was given to the opposition, I went and brewed myself a nice cup of tea knowing full well I'd have time to come back to my seat, look up and take a sip just as it would be taken.I don't think you can point to many incidents today and blame Dean for making a poor call, but his game management is just appalling. They were time-wasting from the first minute, and he told them to hurry up at their very first throw-in - yet he doesn't add sufficient time and doesn't book any of them (Foster spent about 30 seconds per goal kick the entire game). Every time we tried to take a quick free kick he took it back, because the ball was moving ever so slightly when it was taken - why the feck does that matter? It like that every time he's on the pitch - he cares way too much about small details like that and completely ignores other parts.
Don't think we can blame the ref today. Yea, he wasn't great but we probably wouldn't have scored in another 10 minutes of injury time
So? Three days is enough time to get over a hangover.Probably a bit tenuous, but Friend and his buddy were on a stag do three days before his Zlatan/Mings horror show.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...e-anthony-taylor-denies-timing-stag-do-blame/