Standard of Refereeing

[Hookeysmith]

Nobody can or will convince me that the turd Phil Dowd who reffed our LC final against the Redfilth was not bent when he did not send of Vidic. The rules were clear then - stop a goal scoring opportunity it was a Pen and a straight red.
He was intimidated by the spectre of rednose and completely bottled it.

Yeah, but being 'bent' and bottling decisions are two different things.
 

You are corrrect replace bent (as i do not think he took a bung to not give it) with useless and bottling it with outright cheating by not applying the rules

[kippaxvilla2]

There was a podcast last year I think where he mentioned it - cannot remember what he said though.

[Somniloquism]

The problem is the ref's who believe they "HAVE TO" ensure finals are a spectacle for all fans. So they let more go then they should.

Look at Milford for the 91 final. Gascoigne should have been carded for a high foot directly into Parkers chest. Milford  gave the foul and no card. He then allowed the foul on Gary Charles with no punishment to Spurs either. He even did an interview a few years ago with "how would it have looked if he had red carded Gascoigne when he was being carried off on a stretcher". Well like you were doing the correct thing as per the laws of the game, but as Gascoigne actually got up and went into the wall  for the freekick before collapsing and going off on said stretcher, don't fucking lie you grey-pube-haired twat, you were not going to send off one of the big names in the final.

[dcdavecollett]

Wasn't it the great CoC himself, Graham Poll, who defended Dowd's cowardice (at best) by saying, "In cup finals, referees have to ref the occasion."

Tip -top! Let's just rip up the fucking rule-book and get on with it!

[Pat McMahon]

I have never been angrier in my life than that 2010 final. The only thing that prevented me being thrown out of the pub in Shanghai was the fact the staff couldn’t understand me.

[SaddVillan]

Truly, one of the greatest referees to ever blow his Acme Thunderer.

FA Cup referee's cup final medal to be auctioned.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kdvvnk18qo

[Footy-Vill]

The official Atwell was appalling today.
There should have been a sending off for Ipswich Captain.
And there were many fouls he wasn't giving cost us the game

[jon collett]

We were pretty poor and unbalanced but I don’t think Attwell shouldn’t be reffing our games!

[SoccerHQ]

Morsy should've walked for sure. Went in late on Tielemans and I presumed last warning and then he does the same to Jaden five minutes later and ref just ignores it.

We were our own worst enemies in the second half but we were 2-1 up when he was putting in those late challengers so it did impact things.

[Nev]

Across this weekend refs have bottled second yellows.

[Steve67]

Awful today.

[edgysatsuma89]

Across this weekend refs have bottled second yellows.

Yeah, it's definitely feeling like this at the moment.

[Villa Lew]

Across this weekend refs have bottled second yellows.

Yeah, it's definitely feeling like this at the moment.

Yeah but in our case the ref bottled it twice!

[PaulWinch again]

I don’t normally comment much on ref’s, but his failure to send their captain off was something else.

[edgysatsuma89]

I don’t normally comment much on ref’s, but his failure to send their captain off was something else.

Yeah, I'm one of the more lenient ones on here in regards to refs, but it was simply utter horseshit.