Match officials…

After a decentish first half,ref fell more and more for the Bolton play-acting. No hesitation in carding reds players but Bolton got more leniency. The linesman on the West Stand side was a complete joke in that second half. Flagged for offsides that weren’t even close, we were well on. Didzy just before he scored, made a run, then doubled back, when ball was actually played he was well on-side. It happened a couple of times after that. Looks like we’re in for another season of poor officiating

 

Got our sending off right and added on plenty of injury time mainly from Murphy wasting time.

His big mistake was not giving us a penalty when Dunn had his shirt blatantly pulled in the box. That could have been 2-0 and game won.

 

The shirt pulling started outside the box it was a foul but a free kick.

 

It did, but it could quite easily have been a penalty by the time (if) he had blown. It’s not always the ‘big’ incidents that annoy me it’s the all-round inconsistency that gets my goat.

 

That’s not how the law works

 

It was a free kick mate the majority of the shirt pulling started and took place outside the area.

 

The law states if a foul starts outside but carries on into the box it’s a penalty kick

 

Fair enough I'll have to watch it back but at the time he seemed to stop the pulling as they went into the area.

 

I may be wrong but looked to carry on inside from my viewpoint

 

I thought that but looking at the ref he thought it was 6 of one n afe a dozen of the other, not that I agree minst.

 

At first look, I think the defender was a lucky boy.....I'd like to look at that again...seen lots of pens given for that.

 

Is there a rule where if a players gets treatment after a red card they don’t have to go off the pitch? The player that Yoganathan caught received treatment but never went off.

 

Said to my mate that the lino didnt understand the coming back on side rule. I agree with you that Didzy had come back from an offside position but was wel l onside before the ball was passed to him.

 

Yes. Yellow or red

 

Really? I can’t recall ever noticing this before. I assume I have though plenty of times.

 

Well I've just seen the Vimal red card "offence", that was an atrocious decision. It wasn't Yoga who gave that ref a "decision to make", it was the pillock in Bolton colours rolling round as if he'd been having AmDram lessons all week.

 

I know we are all colour blind when it comes to our team and referees. Every fan of every club is the same. But I don't understand how it can be called an atrocious decision. He followed through and got the Bolton player square on the shin. We can moan all we like about the Bolton player rolling around but any other player would do the same including ours, and it was 100% a yellow card. It wasn't an atrocious decision. The regrettable decision in this instance was Hourihane's for not taking him off at half time. It was a fair bet he would get a second card.

 

Is there another angle on a replay? Because the one on the main angle doesn't show any foot left in or any contact with a shin from what I can see

 

The only replay I saw was stood on the ESL concourse, watching the highlights on our tellies on the way out before going for a pee and leaving. It looked clear to me and there were several others watching who all agreed he got him on the shin. Not seen anything since.

 

I've just googled the Sky highlights of the game. Totally different angle from miles away up on the gantry. You can see from that he got his ankle but it is nowhere near as close up as the footage I saw leaving the ground.