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To disallow that goal last night in my opinion was more than just incompetency, he saw something which didn’t even happen. It’s surely impossible for a ref to a get a decision so wrong and just chalk it down to a human error.
Butterfield was a a few yards away from their GK when he slapped the ball into his own net !
Just looking for the possible explanation with the least edge to it, for the sake of everyone’s sanity…
I’d suggest that because he didn’t have a clear view (ie. sight of the keeper was obscured by Butterfield’s back), when the keeper went down seeming to have been fouled then the referee had no option other than working on the balance of probability that he had. The lino might have been able to clarify, but perhaps he didn’t have a clear view either.
In the non-VAR leagues, who does the rule book favour in these situations?
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When they countered we had 2 or 3 players in our box, when we attacked they had 8 or 9 back because we took too long.
This, over and over and over and over again this season.
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apparently a certain bespectacled ginner had a few choice words too
Were they his, or did he get them from here?
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I don’t have a problem with swearing but endless abuse and tirades are just tedious. The local councillor was clearly audible on the stream last night, boorishly abusing the referee over & over again.
Though not as much as our manager who got involved with someone in the crowd, abused the referee enough to get a red card, and then wasn’t big enough to answer questions from the media.
It’s in the rules / directives that if you’ve been red carded you can’t talk to the media after the game.
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Nice interview by Brad James their goalkeeper completely admitting nobody touched him and it was his mistake. Ref association needs to watch that aswell as the actually footage
It’s all very well saying it after the fact from a match-winning position, three points safely in the bank, but what about manning up and talking to the referee in the immediate aftermath? Unlikely, I know, and it would take some guts to do it. But what a man, if you did.
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It was always a very real possibility that would be the case. If we don’t get out of it we can’t be blaming the officials and other clubs pitches and supposed bias against us. Though I suspect some will.
Fairer to say we couldn’t JUST blame those things as they have certainly contributed. But the lion’s share of responsibility for failure to get promoted will be with ourselves.
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You are right it is 99% incompetence, by the refs and the system that runs them. The system for promoting refs isn’t working Les.
You cannot reasonably expect a human referee to get technical decisions right 100% of the time. It’s just not possible to avoid the occasional error or even the occasional seemingly ridiculous decision. What you are entitled to reasonably expect is a high degree of competence and unbiased judgement.
Comments from the referee a few games ago (who said that Whitehall’s game is going down and that’s why he didn’t give the penalty) were alarming. In addition, last night was a disgrace – the booking of Whitehall was a joke and the disallowed goal was a tragedy.
All said, on the whole I don’t think the referees have been that good this season – but nor have they been that bad.
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I fully accept that this is rarely deliberate – but ‘subconscious bias’ is an identifiable phenomenon.
Exactly the same thing when Whitehall wasn’t awarded the penalty a few games ago when it was more than clear, and the referee afterwards saying that Whitehall’s game is going down easily.
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They will when they see posters using ‘on’ when ‘at’ is the correct preposition.
Strikes me he may be a bit of a twon.
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I’d say Hilton’s “wow price” hamstrung them somewhat, Left them with a £300 barrier to break through, had he not set his super cheap tickets so low and a bit nearer the £300 line they could ?
Yes, pretty much what I was getting at. It’s generally accepted that there were ‘flights of fancy’ going on during David Hilton’s ownership – and I actually always thought the low season ticket price was one of them. It was too good an opportunity to miss. I’ve spent the season expecting that to be redressed when the time comes for renewal – but bearing in mind inflation and blah blah blah, it remains a very low price which can’t be doing the board too many favours. Seems odd, to me.
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According to Jimmy, Evans was sent off for a supposed knee in the face…
From where I was, it was difficult to see exactly who did what, but I’m pretty sure I saw a leg flash out as someone took a kick at one of theirs in the immediate aftermath of play being stopped. To be honest I’d thought it was Whitehall so was surprised to see Evans get his marching orders.
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