Crystal Palace v Aston Villa post match thread

[paul_e]

Yep, all 3 of them seemed certain that it was a fucking awful decision, hopefully the sheer amount of noise will force something to happen to Friend, he simply can't away with such an awful decision.

[SoccerHQ]

That free kick Palace had end of first half...if you watch the run Palace player had it was near identical to Jack in that he was running at speed and clipped from behind.

It was an awful awful decision. Only thing we can do is get in touch with FA and request Kevin Friend dosen't ref a game of ours for a very long time which many clubs have done in the past.

I remember years back we had that run of games with Halsley messing us about and he didn't ref us for quite a while. Wasn't it over a year before Dowd took a game for us after the cup final decision?

[Sexual Ealing]

I can't guarantee my own safety if that prick refs us again.

[eamonn]

Nice to see Jenas be categorical in his disgust at the ref's decision. Of course he's right but I wonder is there a bit of residual guilt for doing little to earn his wages at Villa (unlucky to be tripped up by an errant water sprinkler at VP that effectively rendered him injured for most of his time with us).

[LukeJames]

Im usually the most laid back idiot but im still fucking fuming over it.

[ROBBO]

Dean Smith should have taken Trezeguet off at half time, he has so far has been very disappointing.
I was worried in the first fifteen as our very reliable defence were making stupid mistakes and the whole team looked disjointed. I wish posters didn't wet their pants so easily we were not good enough today but it wasn't the disaster that some are making out this is a tough gig and we as a team have had little time to settle, we will get better.

[KevinGage]

I actually hope he gets a gig at Villa Park sometime soon.

Give us all a chance to let us know what we really think of him.

[The Edge]

Well well. I'm hoping that knobhead Kevin Friend has watched motd tonight. Fair play to Jenas "worst decision i've ever seen" And Lineker pointed out that at no time could you see said knobhead put the whistle to his mouth. Joker. Coupled with the blatant pen Wet Spam we're denied just what's the point of VAR? I'm actually starting to think that the refs don't want VAR undermining them and are actively out to sabotage it.

[Uknowthescore]

At the end of the day no matter how much we cry about the incompetence of the ref( which is justified) we was shit. Pissed off with performance and ref. Goodnight.

[john2710]

The ref blowing the whistle is a cover-up. He doesn't blow the whistle, unless he's running with it in his mouth.

It's clear the directive is not to overrule the refs decision, even when it's clearly wrong.

[KevinGage]

Nice to see Jenas be categorical in his disgust at the ref's decision. Of course he's right but I wonder is there a bit of residual guilt for doing little to earn his wages at Villa (unlucky to be tripped up by an errant water sprinkler at VP that effectively rendered him injured for most of his time with us).

He hasn't displayed that at any other time he has commented on us.

[Davkaus]

The ref blowing the whistle is a cover-up. He doesn't blow the whistle, unless he's running with it in his mouth.

What are you suggesting happened? Someone whistled in the crowd and he just went along with it? It was somehow edited in to live streams?

[Flin5tone]

I'm  still very, very angry that decision has ruined my Weekend. Fuming

[KRS]

The ref blowing the whistle is a cover-up. He doesn't blow the whistle, unless he's running with it in his mouth.

What are you suggesting happened? Someone whistled in the crowd and he just went along with it? It was somehow edited in to live streams?

From the angles shown on MOTD and as Lineker pointed out, Friend doesn’t reach for his whistle and it would be physically impossible for him to have whilstled after Jack released the ball and Lansbury but the ball in the net. There is a whistle sound on the replay but doesn’t look like it was Friend that made it. No explanations but it looks dodgy as fuck. Absolutely fuming with the decision.

Just to reiterate my point and disagree strongly with those saying we played shit and didn’t deserve a point...well that’s football! If the cliche about picking up points when not playing well is good enough to be used for teams chasing the league title, then it’s good enough for teams in the middle of the league or fighting relation.

[PeterWithesShin]

We didn't deserve a point but we should have had one, i'm not sure many would disagree with that.