I thought exactly the same regrading the Man C / Spurs game. Tackles were flying in and if the ref had sent off one of the centre halves for two similar challenges in the 1st half I think Sky would have accused the ref of ruining the game with a soft dismissal. I can accept that they were 2 yellow cards individually but I think they added up to less than the sum of their parts.Different Premier League referee with most probably a different outlook altogether. However I have been at Man City Spurs today and Aguero, Sterling and Fenandinho all got away Scot free with challenges that were far worse than either of Shackells. There could be several explanations for that other than it being a more lenient referee, who knows. What I do know is that the ref kept calm and unflustered even at the end when the home crowd were giving him grief for a few decisions they didn't get. He certainly didn't strut around like a self important traffic warden with a clothes prop fully inserted into one of his cavities.
I missed that but I do sit at the back of the third tier.Also was I seeing things, but did the assistant flag for a throw when the ball didn't go out 2nd half?
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Also was I seeing things, but did the assistant flag for a throw when the ball didn't go out 2nd half?
Reckon this must be the longest rate the ref thread this season!
Certainly provoked plenty of debate if nothing else and funds for the club, thank you Mr Mason
To be fair the officials are always better placed and better trained so why have the thread?No you like many others think you can see better down the line when sat 30 yards back than someone stood on the line at a right angle looking directly down it, even though the Lino's had the appropriate training as well ??
Because we’d comment elsewhere so makes sense to have the ref comments mostly in one place. People can choose whether or not they view or comment. You might be surprised how many people with referee ‘training’ write on here!To be fair the officials are always better placed and better trained so why have the thread?
Also was I seeing things, but did the assistant flag for a throw when the ball didn't go out 2nd half?
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The ball curled out of play and back in again, bouncing on the pitch. To be fair to him, he was leaning forward and looking directly down the line to see if the whole of the ball went out and he may have been the only person in the ground to be able to see for sure.
Because we’d comment elsewhere so makes sense to have the ref comments mostly in one place. People can choose whether or not they view or comment. You might be surprised how many people with referee ‘training’ write on here!
To be fair the officials are always better placed and better trained so why have the thread?
So the card was interpretative of that law, given the ball was not in play and entry did not affect the game.
At best a questionable application of the law, at worst the ref was acting like a mofo.
Because we’d comment elsewhere so makes sense to have the ref comments mostly in one place. People can choose whether or not they view or comment. You might be surprised how many people with referee ‘training’ write on here!
Isn't it about time they stopped naming referees at all? They removed the home location of the referee a long time ago in order to preclude accusations of bias, but surely they have to take the egotistical temptation away from these self-important clowns? Mason strutted around the pitch as if he thought 6,819 people had paid to see him. I think he came into this game determined to show these lower league cloggers how they do it properly in the Premier League; perhaps he even felt insulted by being given a League Two match and was determined to ruin it? Who knows? I may be clutching at straws, but there has to be a reason why his behaviour was so erratic.
He has actually had a spell suspended from Premier League refs this season for being error strewn.
Keith Hackett rated him as one of the worst refs he'd seen.
You realise mistimed tackles are often yellow cards?I've watched it over and over again and my view hasn't changed from when I saw it live. The first was a mistimed challenge and in my opinion, a warning at most.
Then following a warning the first, the second should, in my opinion, be the first booking.