Forget about that, he's calling fouls for no contact (Dalot on Robertson) and not giving yellows for pushes from behind on counter attacks (Firmino on Rashford).
Atkinson is a homer ref, lost the plot in this game.
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Atkinson is a homer ref, lost the plot in this game.
He's always been about the story rather than being a fair ref. VAR will retire guys like him.
I've complained about it in the last two pages of the serie A thread 
Salah's little push on bailly is a foul. Even a potentially dangerous one! FFS
Salah's little push on bailly is a foul. Even a potentially dangerous one! FFS
This fella today has been awful. And I don't normally look to criticise refs.
The guy is pathetic.
Every big game Michael Oliver referees is decided by game changing decisions he gets wrong.
Classic Oliver, thinks that his job is to give a performance. No, you're a ref, you're not supposed to be noticed.
All 3 penalty decisions wrong today? Auba chance missed given offside also wrong. Lucky he missed anyway.
Salah is being encouraged to dive at will by the premier League. When you look at the dives players were punished for last season it's even more laughable.
English refereeing is the worst in Europe. VAR will be carnage if its actually implemented properly. You'd think half the referees will be forced to retire in embarrassment.
Mane should have been off before the first goal.
Atrocious.
He looks quite funny with his little paunch and manboobs.
Overindulged at Christmas?
Overindulged at Christmas?
It amazes me that Pogba gets a talking to after Shelvey raked down the back of his leg just then.
If the referee does his job, that gets negated.
If the referee does his job, that gets negated.
It's difficult. Generally I like that he's letting things go, but that's just no the way the sport is these days. Then he books Lindelof for the crime of receiving a massive shove. So weird.
So it's not only Premier League refs that are totally inept.
Even with the help of VAR, Kimpembe tonight should've been sent off twice tonight for a second booking. Yet he was the game changer.
Ref was happy to dish out bookings for every other foul though. Fecking fed up of refs screwing us at this stage. Utter bullshit.
Even with the help of VAR, Kimpembe tonight should've been sent off twice tonight for a second booking. Yet he was the game changer.
Ref was happy to dish out bookings for every other foul though. Fecking fed up of refs screwing us at this stage. Utter bullshit.
He won't get another CL game this season.
UEFA don't like high carded games. They especially don't like marquee players not playing in big games (i.e. Pogba).
UEFA don't like high carded games. They especially don't like marquee players not playing in big games (i.e. Pogba).
Yeah the Kimpembe decisions were odd. Yellows all round except the crucial ones to put PSG down to 10.
He chickened out of sending Kimpembe off. Made a problem for himself with showing everyone a yellow early on. Then couldn't be consistent.
I hope he gets called out on it, but we all know he won't because UEFA are cowards just like the FA that put refs on a pedestal.
I admit that we didn’t play well but this guy was fecking awful!
He let Kimpembe away countless times and seemed to take pity whenever a PSG player began diving around like Tom Daley.
We say the refs in England are terrible but this guy here took it to a whole new level.
Made Martin Atkinson look like Pierluigi Collina
He let Kimpembe away countless times and seemed to take pity whenever a PSG player began diving around like Tom Daley.
We say the refs in England are terrible but this guy here took it to a whole new level.
Made Martin Atkinson look like Pierluigi Collina
Can't really argue with the second yellow for Pogba. The Kimpembe decisions were bizarre, not even free kicks!
But the worse thing he did was get the yellows out too early. Set the standard and ruined the flow of the game. Also made a red card inevitable.
But the worse thing he did was get the yellows out too early. Set the standard and ruined the flow of the game. Also made a red card inevitable.
Fact is that in the cl most of the decisions go to the bigger team . We are now a second tier European team . Most of these decisions go against PSG if they play Barca or real
CL refereeing is mental. How do they fall for all those dives and fail to give actual fouls? There's just zero flow to the game. Feels like the ball is hardly in play.
Referee was a complete disgrace, helped a team full of disgraces.
All is forgiven for the PL referees, it could be much worse.
Problem is the game is so much faster now, the players, the tactics and even the ball they use. Meanwhile the referees and linesmen are still refereeing the game the way they were in the 50s. They need help.
Problem is the game is so much faster now, the players, the tactics and even the ball they use. Meanwhile the referees and linesmen are still refereeing the game the way they were in the 50s. They need help.
I think for the most part the referees in the PL get too much stick, and too many people seem to believe that they are worse than referees elsewhere. It's an impossible job with and without VAR, and football overall would do well to focus less on decisions that can go either way and more on the actual football.
It's funny the cognitive bias of fans who ignore every referee decision that was in their favour (there many yesterday) and use the couple that weren't to paint the refereeing performance as completely against them.
Don't they do the same in other leagues in Europe. Whenever I see La Liga matches, I see players going down at the slightest of pulls or touches and the ref blows.
How can anyone still be against var after seeing these referees get away with such blatant mistakes over and over again.
Thes worst eason from Premier League referees I remember in years.
Genuine question, is there anyone we rate?
Moss is fat, old, shit.
Oliver makes it up as he goes along.
Mariner seems weak.
Mike Dean has occasional moments of competence but only while being the most punchable cnut in the Mike Dean show.
Anyone decent?
Genuine question, is there anyone we rate?
Moss is fat, old, shit.
Oliver makes it up as he goes along.
Mariner seems weak.
Mike Dean has occasional moments of competence but only while being the most punchable cnut in the Mike Dean show.
Anyone decent?
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Rough season continues.
Exactly - referees are making atleast 2 mistakes a game.
Teams should be allowed a restricted amount of VAR's a half (maybe one a half for each team?) - this will make a referee mistake only happen at max once a game.
The biggest problem is not making mistakes per say, but its costly ones, game changing ones.
If a ref makes a mistake when it should be a throw in the other way, or a goal kick instead of a corner or vice-versa (assuming the corner doesn't lead to a goal), I can accept that, but when it literally robs the other team because it changes the entire game or result its just unthinkable that var isn't in existence in the PL yet.
If I were to choose between "sucking the life out of the game" or being "robbed every game" I would choose the so-called sucking life out of the game, at least it will be a fair-life sucking game that a blatantly robbed unfair game.
Got shafted tonight.
Busquets has more lives than a witch's cat. No idea how he wasn't sent off, especially for that handball towards the start of the second half.
European refs are shite.
Same as Fernandinho last night, and Casemiro every other game and so on.
European referees are shit just like the ones in the PL.
Can't wait for football without refs.
Can't wait for football without refs.
Busquets should have been sent off on three separate occasions. And those weren't even debatable decisions.
It's the fact he then called handballs against us even when they were marginal at best, and then booked our players for very little.
One aspect where I hate the Champions League, we never have the best of the referees bad performance.