Good goal, ignored a blatant penalty and we missed chances we really should have taken. Could be a report of nearly every bloody Fowls match I’ve seen!
Tbf this is days after getting an incredibly soft pen and a straight red overturned. Swings and roundabouts.
Hmmm sorry I disagree. The ref was appalling yesterday, one of the worst performances I have seen in a long long time. three major decisions that he inexplicably got wrong. there was also a fourth late on when Paterson (I think) stopped and very deliberately blocked Dike. It was dangerous and serious foul play. A red card all day long.
My point is some decisions go for you, some don't. It's football. Twas ever thus. Fans tend to focus on individual refereeing decisions that go against us, and gloss over the ones that go in our favour...actually even that's probably not true; they tend to try and totally justify the ones that go in our favour. I'm suggesting if we want to get forensic about the impacts of ref decisions, we need to look at both. All refs make $hit decisions, but I never think it's malicious or intentional. That would be cheating. I genuinely believe if we don't win a game of football, it's because we didn't do enough to win. For me, we didn't get a result yesterday because we weren't good enough.
Ironically it was the same lovely person that sent off Helik away at Reading for daring to go near their player, but the assaults yesterday were fine. Completely incompetent referred which is why he keeps yoyoing from championship to league 2. Because he's *****
He spotted the handball by Brittain at Watford. He saw red card fouls by Helik and Andersen at Reading. And he saw both assaults on Dike yesterday (just didn't see them as fouls). As well as a 'foul' by Dike that saw a perfectly good goal disallowed. We all assumed he'd blown up for a foul by Andersen, which was actually the defender pulling Mads down. But no, by all accounts, it was a foul by Daryl on the goalkeeper. I think his eyes are fine. But he's certainly made huge decisions against us in all three games he's reffed of ours this season. Again, I'd like to point out that besides the official's mistakes yesterday, Wednesday were the better side on the day. Nothing to grumble about there.
Barry Bannan should have been booked three or four times in the game and got nothing, on top of the goal and the penalties, not a good day for us from the ref. But I’m not inclined to blame the ref for the result tbh
Totally different scenario if we had gone 1-0 up with the disallowed goal or penalty. I genuinely don’t think they would have had stomach for the comeback. That said, we didn’t play well. Que sera.
Exactly - no attempt made to play the ball whatsoever, pure cynical cheating. Fairly sure that should be a red.
Surely this is a clear candidate for the McGeehan treatment? Not seen by the ref, no action at the time and clear and conclusive (unlike McGeehan) evidence of premeditated serious and dangerous foul play. If McGeehan's was worth a three game ban this should be 6.