Luton vs Aston Villa post-match thread

[Small Rodent]

On about 94 minutes a Luton player is clearly pulling on a Villa players shorts right in front of the ref, but nothing given and they get a corner.

[levico]

The tendency to sacrifice leads is worrying but Unai’s game management was sound.

[Demitri_C]

Special shout to the ref oliver. The most corrupt mother fucker in the league.

We should be writing a letter demanding answers

[TonyD]

Luton are diving rabble.
Conducted by the odious Oliver.
They got what they fukin deserved.

[astonvilla82]

Apart from the referee, second half display was unacceptable,it was more like "Okay Luton are shit,we don't have too much to do this half," we weren't closing down and generally the ball kept coming back too easy

[Baldy]

Played our 'Get out of Jail free' card tonight. Can't afford any more second half performances like that. But, a win is a win is a win.

As Mr Mullet said, we played the 'crazy gang' tonight. Thankfully, Doughty only moved forward in the second half or we would have had an aerial bombardment for the whole 90 minutes.

Brilliant to get a late win and really piss off Spurs, Man Utd etc in the process.

It's what the top teams do.

[kippaxvilla2]

A special word for Oliver.  That was one of the worst refereeing performances of this and any season.  What a Newcastle Cnut.

[PaulWinch again]

I think Oliver was poor, and the yellows for Doug and Bailey were ridiculous. But we did commit a lot of stupid fouls as well. There’s fault on us for that, no matter how much we want to push it all to the ref.

[dave shelley]

Enjoy the ride ladies and gents, we've waited a hell of a long time for it.

[itbrvilla]

Apparently we tied a PL record set by Watford in 2021 for most fouls (19).

[paul_e]

I think Oliver was poor, and the yellows for Doug and Bailey were ridiculous. But we did commit a lot of stupid fouls as well. There’s fault on us for that, no matter how much we want to push it all to the ref.

We did, but they were making the same challenges and having play waved on, that was the problem, you can be a pernickity shit and blow up for everything or you can let things go and try to let the game flow, you can't do one for one team and one for the other. We didn't commit a single foul all game that was any worse than they were doing to Watkins. Inconsistency is what pisses me off with refs and today was as bad as anything I can think of.

[PaulWinch again]

Special shout to the ref oliver. The most corrupt mother fucker in the league.

We should be writing a letter demanding answers

No we shouldn’t, that’s what pathetic clubs do. He was overzealous, but we were also giving away stupid fouls (that were fouls) too. The main obvious error on his part was he got it into his head that Menghi was being fair against Ollie, which he wasn’t.

[fredm]

How many times did Tiereman (sp) touch the ball during the time he was on the pitch?

[PaulWinch again]

I think Oliver was poor, and the yellows for Doug and Bailey were ridiculous. But we did commit a lot of stupid fouls as well. There’s fault on us for that, no matter how much we want to push it all to the ref.

We did, but they were making the same challenges and having play waved on, that was the problem, you can be a pernickity shit and blow up for everything or you can let things go and try to let the game flow, you can't do one for one team and one for the other. We didn't commit a single foul all game that was any worse than they were doing to Watkins. Inconsistency is what pisses me off with refs and today was as bad as anything I can think of.

The Menghi vs Ollie battle was his main mistake, because he got it into his head that Menghi was being fair. He also gave us some very soft yellow cards, but I think most of the fouls he gave were fouls.

[danno]

Oliver didn't give Luiz a second yellow, other than that I thought he was pretty bad.