Referees v Everton

[Zatara]

I wouldnt be shocked if the ref was bribed today.

 

[bluetack]

Vinnie, the kopite knob on Merseyside phone in, Richarlision and Gordon should have been sent off for simulation. Utter obnoxious victims all the time.

 

[Voodoo Billy]

This isn't really true though, it is possible on jostling like that to say it isn't enough to be a foul but it isn't simulation really either.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree, but I didn't think it was jostling, it was a push in the back, wasn't really a 50/50 for me.

 

[Chill125]

That 12 bookings for diving with Everton getting 6 should highlight the bias against us.
Every Premiership game has a dive yet we have been punished for 50% of them.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Sure.... always the ref's fault.
Seriously, what goal threat did we actually create today?

It is decent bait like.

 

[Inchy226]

Why even pretend ffs

Pretend about what? I'm not blaming the ref for our sh.it.ness.
The foul on Gordon in the first 5 mins was the wrong decision by Atwell but he got most everything else correct. I know that's not a popular opinion. So be it.

 

[Zatara]

Pretend about what? I'm not blaming the ref for our sh.it.ness.
The foul on Gordon in the first 5 mins was the wrong decision by Atwell but he got most everything else correct. I know that's not a popular opinion. So be it.

We know what you are

 

[TheBigIguana]

I think we'll have to agree to disagree, but I didn't think it was jostling, it was a push in the back, wasn't really a 50/50 for me.

Ok call it what you want, there is a way for that to be not a foul and not a dive.

 

[ArtetaMoney]

I honestly think the referees would give us a good game. Can see Mike Dean doing Keane for pace.

 

[DanEFC92]

We are very very bad.

But it's almost weekly this.

 

[PhilM]

Pretend about what? I'm not blaming the ref for our sh.it.ness.
The foul on Gordon in the first 5 mins was the wrong decision by Atwell but he got most everything else correct. I know that's not a popular opinion. So be it.

5Live disagreed. Most others fans disagree. Most Evertonoans disaster. One set of fans agrees. I think that’s the problem here.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

The PL is like WWE now its completely scripted at the top.

Hence why I couldn't give a toss if we are part of it or not next season tbh.

I just want old school honest football with players fighting for the shirt not overpaid primadonnas like Andre Gomes.

 

[TheBigIguana]

The PL is like WWE now its completely scripted at the top.

Hence why I couldn't give a toss if we are part of it or not next season tbh.

I just want old school honest football with players fighting for the shirt not overpaid primadonnas like Andre Gomes.

You'll get a good bit of that in the championship tbf.

What you won't get is good refereeing.

 

[KaiserEFC]

I understand both sides of the argument and I don’t think anybody is blaming referees for where Everton are today, that’s wholeheartedly on the club.

I do however, think that the favourable officiating the big teams get needs to constantly be put out there because we’re at this weird point of shift in the sport where diving has been accepted as part of the game in the mainstream, things like “Fergie time” was turned into accepted behaviour and a bit of a joke rather than what it actually was and a team spending hundreds of millions of pounds a season and placing a monopoly on academy talents is no longer “buying/manipulating the league”. (I understand that isn’t all officiating, I’m basically ranting about why I hate the sport).

All of this has made the sport a bit rubbish really and I think the points need constant raising.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Its not a 50 50 call either. Its just a penalty. We need all those calls because we are so crap.

Everyone knows its a pen up other end.