Against spurs recently, De Gea gets booked early on for time wasting. I thought at the time it was a fantastic piece of refereeing and was looking forward to that being applied consistently in the future. Ha!
Foster took as long as he could get away with for every single dead ball yesterday. The ref told him to hurry up on at least 3 occasions which I saw. No booking though. I genuinely thought, as a result of the constant time wasting, we'd be getting 6 minutes of added time, given the subs and goals included. 8 minutes if he really wanted to punish Watford for ruining the match. Nope. 3 Phucking minutes! That has to go beyond incompetence, right? There's a team of at least 4 officials at the match, plus those watching the screens. How can something like that happen? What if we'd scored one of our chances and it had really mattered? Would he then have added the lost time? If it takes yet another official on 50k a year to look at a stopwatch, then it will be money worth spent. Though I'm beginning suspect the desire for flexibility is more attractive to the FA than accuracy as further evidenced by the mis-use of VAR.