Not seen any of the game - followed the BBS meltdown from my afternoon walk. MK fan I know suggesting ref was our 12th man ??
Based on what? How was he our 12th man? Haven't watched the goals back but all should have stood? Can't remember any contentious decisions of the top of my head? And he certainly didn't give us all the 50/50s. Thought the officials did alright. According to our lot (i missed it), it should hardly have been a penalty either?
The ref that gave them the softest of penalties to kick start their 4 goal spurt at the start of the 2nd half. That ref? That said I thought he was generally Ok seemed pretty fair to me so maybe he did favour us slightly but I didn’t see many decisions that favoured us that looked suspect Same can be said the other way penalty excepted
Penalty aside. Which again was one we would never get awarded he did ok. Should have been a bit stronger when they had started to blatantly try to feign injuries especially when one of them was getting hammered by his teammate and was made to stand up and then got the face on cos the ref made him go off the pitch.
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Yeah it looks from the highlights that their player left his leg behind him waiting for a touch then went down. Harsh but debatable, not a penalty we would have got for sure.
It looked a really soft pen from the away end but I’ve not seen any replays. That’s two in successive games, hope we’re not on a similar run to that back in January.
Last 20 minutes we appeared to be getting every decision. Most of those were correct but some definitely weren't. Many contributors went apoplectic the other day when the game was stopped for a head injury while we were attacking. We had a whole thread on it. Yesterday the game was stopped while MK had possession because Kane pretended he'd hurt his leg.
Ref gave them a free penalty and at 4 1 they were doing the same rhubarb that kane was up to rolling around and killing time. Their arses fell out as we got back into the game and they started fouling. In my opinion the refs need to just give actual fouls until these soft gets stop bairning and get on with the game(football in general)
It was Thomas I think and he was genuinely hurt. I agree there was no real need to stop the game. The sooner Football follows Rugby and allows the trainer on whilst the game continues the better from my point of view Mk had the ball around the half way line though not in mid break up field when the ref stopped the game so a bit different to the one where we were heading to the edge of the box against a stretched defence
