Angell Delight
Life President
Sorry to bring it up again chaps but have been too angry to come on the Zone since yesterday's game - now I need to get this off my chest as some sort of "therapy."
Have to say I am also a referee like "Lord Football" and therefore try to avoid slating officials but he was literally the worst I've seen in TWENTY YEARS as a fan of this football club. What a contrast to Lee Probert from last Tuesday. The tackles on Revell and Gower were disgraceful and worthy of reds, how Terry got away with the one on Revell is completely beyond my comprehension!! Barnard (in particular) and MacDonald were manhandled time and time again but awarded nothing at ANY point, in fact Barnard was more often than not penalised for being wrestled to the floor!! The penalty was a joke decision at the time and having seen it on the Championship it look even less of a pen. And just to sum up how bad the referee was he failed to at the very least caution Mulgrew (I think it was) if not red card him for pulling back Gray in stoppage time when he was "arguably" through on goal!! Open to interpretation but a yellow was the bare minimum any halfway-competent referee would have produced. Obviously that one worked to our advantage but it just goes to show how bad the referee was on the day, mostly against us but on that one occasion against them. Most of the time we were up against 12 men so a point is a creditable result and the least we deserved from the game.
Was great to see Tilly so livid with the ref in the centre circle at the end, I think most Blues fans were hoping he'd hit him!! Dreadful display and while I hate Dennis Wise with a passion I'd be tempted to have some sympathy with him if that really was the same referee he had the ruck with at Gillingham.
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P.S. Anyone know why Barny had to go off? No mention of the injury on the OS. If he'd come out for the 2nd half I've no doubt we'd have won the game regardless of that clown in yellow.
Have to say I am also a referee like "Lord Football" and therefore try to avoid slating officials but he was literally the worst I've seen in TWENTY YEARS as a fan of this football club. What a contrast to Lee Probert from last Tuesday. The tackles on Revell and Gower were disgraceful and worthy of reds, how Terry got away with the one on Revell is completely beyond my comprehension!! Barnard (in particular) and MacDonald were manhandled time and time again but awarded nothing at ANY point, in fact Barnard was more often than not penalised for being wrestled to the floor!! The penalty was a joke decision at the time and having seen it on the Championship it look even less of a pen. And just to sum up how bad the referee was he failed to at the very least caution Mulgrew (I think it was) if not red card him for pulling back Gray in stoppage time when he was "arguably" through on goal!! Open to interpretation but a yellow was the bare minimum any halfway-competent referee would have produced. Obviously that one worked to our advantage but it just goes to show how bad the referee was on the day, mostly against us but on that one occasion against them. Most of the time we were up against 12 men so a point is a creditable result and the least we deserved from the game.
Was great to see Tilly so livid with the ref in the centre circle at the end, I think most Blues fans were hoping he'd hit him!! Dreadful display and while I hate Dennis Wise with a passion I'd be tempted to have some sympathy with him if that really was the same referee he had the ruck with at Gillingham.
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P.S. Anyone know why Barny had to go off? No mention of the injury on the OS. If he'd come out for the 2nd half I've no doubt we'd have won the game regardless of that clown in yellow.
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