Referees v Everton

[ToffeeTim]

Pretty bad precedent to not send Ayew off for that tackle. Basically you can do a scissor tackle from behind and stay on the pitch

 

[woomy]

Pretty bad precedent to not send Ayew off for that tackle. Basically you can do a scissor tackle from behind and stay on the pitch

Well you can, if your instructions are to get the opposing team relegated.

 

[leslad]

How is that not a red card? The ball is on the floor and he's gone directly for Gord

 

[Groucho]

So are we all now happy with the Man City/hand ball decision? lol

 

[Oddball]

will this thread/topic slowly slip down the message board? we`ve been seriously stitched up by the officials on and off the pitch to the point of almost being relegated. we c`ant let this go. its been going on for decades. when Moyes was here, he sent evidence of ten penalty calls that were denied us in only the first 5months of the season. the FA acknowledged 8 of them as being valid. this situation will carry on and on unless somehow something changes

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Oddball]

Ayew and (possibly) Zaha shouldve been sent off and thats only this week!!! also we get sent off for virtually nothing. the end result of this is obvious, but it gets brushed under the carpet. loads of points dropped, we get on the players backs and the situation goes from bad to worse

 

[summerisle]

Compare and contrast :

 

[Oddball]

no penalties awarded against LFC and no opposition players sent off against us!!! they almost won the league and we nearly got relegated and still some fans will say you cant blame the officials for your teams results or you end up in the position you deserve

 

[Zatara]

We need to have a meeting with the referees during preseason and ask them to explain the rules to us and why all those decisions went against us.

 

[Oddball]

how many points have we been conned out of this season? if Mbappe et al played for us it still wouldnt matter when referees use different rules for us. they can all eff-off because without the crap officiating we would have been comfortably mid table.

 

[Zatara]

EXC: Probe into Xhaka booking over suspicions of major betting scandal

EXCLUSIVE: Granit Xhaka's mysterious booking in Arsenal's win at Leeds last season is being investigated by the National Crime Agency amid suspicions of a major betting scandal.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Its not us but im almost certain refs are corrupt.

 

[deipnosophist]

Its not us but im almost certain refs are corrupt.

With the amount of money riding on results, it is beyond any rational doubt that some refs/adjudicators are bent.

 

[NathDogg]

Andre Marriner under investigation as part of the match fixing - not shocked are we!

 

[Seamus Colemole]

I don't really see what's mysterious about that booking. Arsenal get a free kick, last 10 mins of a game they're winning, Xhaka does that "goes to take it, hesitates, goes to take it again, gesticulates at his teammates" thing that most players do in that position, trying to waste time and get away with it but he takes about 20 seconds and isn't quite cute enough about it so Marriner rightly books him.

It's not an odd booking at all.

Surely if anyone should be investigated for match fixing it would be Xhaka. Easy for him to say "yeah, we're bound to get a free kick of throw in in the last 10 mins so i'll waste time till i get a booking, stick your money on it" thats pretty likely. But the ref booking a player in the last 10 mins? Xhaka's always a good candidate but he still has to do something to get the booking that is out of the refs hands.

Unless it's a blatant booking for nothing, which in this case it wasn't.

Unless there's more to it.