Yellow cards..

8 yellow cards.. Have we come out kicking..

 

No, the ref is just $hite

 

Well I’ve always had a lot of time for Mark Robbins but he definitely off my Christmas card list after that performance.

 

Can we appeal for 8 yellow cards and a biased ref?

 

But if you're from Coventry we're the dirtiest team they'll play all season!

 

The referee completely lost the plot - the best one was he blew for a foul and their player instantly put the ball down and booted against Benson - yellow

In the first half they constantly kicked the ball away - nothing

very nasty tackle in the first half on one of our lads (probably Palmer) with the boot left in ……nothing

 

The referee set a precedent with a soft yellow card, then followed up every challenge or slight bit of a dissent with a booking. Absolute helmet. Could well be a relative of Trevor Kettle.

 

To be fair on the Benson one, it was him who stuck his foot out and kicked it away.

 

Presume we’ll be fined for that many

 

Callum O'Hare putting the 'diver' in Lady Godiva for Woodrow's yellow card

Doesn't quite work when written down that pun. Also a bit of a stretch but IDC.

 

I still have no idea how we ended up with that many. When I looked on my phone after the game and saw we had 8 I was stunned. I honestly didn't notice the ref hand out 8, not sure if I wasn't paying enough attention or he was sly with it. I am also a bit confused about this 'dirty Barnsley' narrative that is making the rounds from Cov fans and from the Quest highlight show. We made 16 fouls which I don't think is a majorly excessive number for a match that was almost 100 mins with added time etc. and we got booked for half of those which to me is overly harsh. Cov themselves made 14 fouls and only got two bookings.

Some were clear bookings that we got, Woodrows especially was an obvious yellow but watching the highlights back on Quest, most were just typical soft fouls in the middle of the pitch that happen all the time in football yet we got booked for this instantly. Yet Cov did the same and nothing? Honestly one of the worst refs I have seen in so long.

 

Some of them were deserved for blatant shirt pulling, but he absolutely lost the plot and will deserve in the years to come to be remembered in the same breath as Cain, Willard, Kettle and Singh.

 

I watched the Sky 15 mins highlights of our game and early on in his interview Robins praised us for being a good team (“these are a really good side”) but at the end went over the top. He accused us of a lot of cynical fouls, that number three was lucky to stay in the pitch (he took Dabo out 3 of 4 times in the first 20 mins), they kept leaving the foot in, pulled shirts etc and that’s where we need to get a bit better.

Errr, hold on Mark. Your team is already VERY good at that! It was an incredible performance by the “referee” (he can’t be qualified, surely) to allow them to get away with so much while pouncing on us in the second half for minor things.

 

He issued that many yellows, I asked my next door neighbour if he received one!

 

If bookies offered yes/no odds on that then knowing this ref I would have put money on yes even though your neighbour wasn't on the pitch.

 

To be fair, he was specifically asked about our 8 yellow cards. He was hardly going to highlight his own team's faults, and we were quite niggly even if a few of the yellows were uncalled for.

The booking for Benson was purely the Coventry player trying to get him booked, he wasn't trying to pass to a team mate, he just hit it straight at an opponent to get him booked. The ref should've seen through that.

 

already is on that list....John Busby- remember the name. Looked at his stats prior to Saturday only had refereed 1 Championship game. Last season 35 games. 90 Yellows 6 Red. In 2019/20 123 yellows in 33 games he didn't manage a game without showing a card in that season !
here's a link (if it works) Games refereed by John Busby in 2021/2022 | Soccer Base
not sure what the average is - maybe he got a bet on himself to be top of the league this season !! Noticed in one season he showed 8 yellows 3 times, seems to like cards does John.

 

Who is Cain? And what was wrong with Singh? I quite liked him as a ref

 

He gave out so many cards I've heard he's been offered a job at Clinton's