Incredibly frustrating. There can be no doubt we should have seen a red card for that early challenge and Bristol City would have had to play almost a full match a man short and would have tired significantly. I'm convinced we'd have won had he not bottled it. A blatantly wrong decision like that could be the difference and send us down. Oh, and we should have had 3 penalties.
I’m afraid I must not understand the latest rules regarding being the last man etc. Can anyone enlighten me?
Another game where the incompetence of the referee contributed to the outcome. They should have been down to ten men and it looked a nailed on penalty for McBurnie. The performance of the ref is really putting me off football, I'm sick to death of seeing **** officials.
Agreed, and there was the full-back elbowing Oli in the head right in front of him, umpteen 50:50s that Moore got penalised for, the blatant yellows that Diedhou should have had in both halves not to mention his persistent fouling and he didn't even get spoken to. Had we been them we would have finished with eight and have had three pens awarded against us.
They did change it to bring in the 'double jeopardy' rule not to give a red if a team is awarded a pen. But ours was a free kick, last man and denied a clear goalscoring opportunity. Letter of the law is a red.
3 penalties. There was a stone wall one on Moore and a probable on on McBurnie but I couldn’t tell for sure from my viewpoint what was the 3rd. The Red card was so blatant it was untrue.
Shocking ref for the sending off that never happened. But missing an hat full of brilliant chances cost us more.
One on Isgrove first half as well. Would've have been soft but nowhere near as soft as that one Wednesday were awarded down at Oakwell.
Made his own rules up and refereed accordingly. I don't normally get too involved with refs, but this guy was a total ****** today - let so much go unpunished and then stuck Potts in the book for taking off his shirt.
As a club we really should be reporting this to the FA and getting them to explain why a guy with a conflict of interest as shown in his display, was allowed to ref the game of a relegation candidate of his own team.
Gets weirder still... He's only refereed 3 championship games this season, all 3 involving relegation rivals of Sunderland. Hull vs Fulham in December Ipswich vs Burton in Feb Us vs Bristol yesterday. All 3 draws in the end.
I really don’t understand how this can be allowed to happen? It’s a conflict of interest and brings the integrity of the game into question I would have thought