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Originally Posted by accybeme
it's not often when your team wins 3-0 you say the ref was useless, he let the wrestling tactics of port vale players go unpunished and lost control of the match, the ref should pay the enevitability of another fine imposed upon us, but the name of andy woolmer goes down in the notebook alongside trevor kettle
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Largely agree with you accybeme. Yet another referee who seemed to have two objectives: a) Not to use his yellow card at all throughout the whole match. b) To ‘play on’ after many infringements, which is ok when the fouled team have a really clear advantage.
After ‘playing on’ and a break down in play, why did he he not then go back to admonish the player committing the foul?
Once again the referee’s action let the match bubble over in the later stages.
This refereeing edict over the last couple of seasons that the game is a ‘physical sport’ so play on, is not working.
The situation in every goal mouth at a set piece is just ridiculous with defenders and attackers of both teams ‘wrestling’ and shirt pulling constantly. At every one of these set pieces half a dozen penalties or free kicks to the either team should be awarded!
The worst trick that I have ever seen was Taylor, number 20, on the near post just five yards from where I stand. He was being ‘marked’ by Coyle who was ‘restricting’ Taylor’s attempts to stand on the feet of Jensen. Taylor grabbed his own shirt at the top of his shoulders and was pulling it up over his head in the hope of fooling the referee.
I would ban Taylor for a whole season for this as that was the most blatant and unprofessional attempt at cheating that I have ever witnessed!
The refereeing committee need to look again at ‘The foul’ and make the referee’s apply the laws of the game.