- I can accept if the ref didn't see something he can't give it but its unforgiveable for the ref to make something up eg the chelsea second goal. Basically he guessed.
But isn't that what refs do in a lot of decisions? There's no way. for instance, that a ref can categorically know that a handball in the box when the ball is hit at a defender from five yards is definitely deliberate, so he has to guess. Or when a player goes flying, was he tripped or did he dive, it's a guess.
Same with the Chelsea goal, he had a couple of seconds to decide and he must have thought something along the lines of "Tottenham player way behind the line, I reckon that was over" so he gave the goal.