I agree with Steve we have been on the end of some atrocious decisions this season. But does this endless referee bashing become counter productive at the end of the day?
It was unbelievable, the penalty was another nailed on!! We had three free kicks around the box. On the first the ref marked the ball with his spray and counted out 10 of the tiniest, little steps you could get away with (no more than 9 yards), stopped, stepped back and then sprayed in front of where the wall was already standing! About another yard back. On the second, the crowd started counting with him but again he just sprayed the line where the Blackburn wall was already standing rather than getting them back. On the third, the crowd counted his steps again and this time he only got to eight! You could see Smallwood protesting at the ref and pointing towards the fans saying 'they even counted them out for you' and he just waved him away. Truly incredible.
It was unbelievable, the penalty was another nailed on!! We had three free kicks around the box. On the first the ref marked the ball with his spray and counted out 10 of the tiniest, little steps you could get away with (no more than 9 yards), stopped, stepped back and then sprayed in front of where the wall was already standing! About another yard back. On the second, the crowd started counting with him but again he just sprayed the line where the Blackburn wall was already standing rather than getting them back. On the third, the crowd counted his steps again and this time he only got to eight! You could see Smallwood protesting at the ref and pointing towards the fans saying 'they even counted them out for you' and he just waved him away. Truly incredible.
Unfortunately truly incompetent peeps become referees.
Unfortunately truly incompetent peeps become referee adjudicators.
If we are gonna have spray (which is meant to make sure that players dont encroach) maybe we should have a tape measure to get the actual distance right in the first place!!!
