From my angle (west side of the Ponty) the penalty looked like a dive to me. He waited for the tackle to come in then threw himself on the ground. I'll be interested to see what it looked like on the telly.
Looked like one to me. https://x.com/the_mannster/status/1708126325364670644?s=46&t=trUrLWLsldTn2T7z_vrQBw
But then someone tell me how this isn’t a one either. https://x.com/the_mannster/status/1708141224614559990?s=46&t=trUrLWLsldTn2T7z_vrQBw
0 out of 10 for me. Of 4 major decisions he got 2 wrong. That’s not good enough. Generally he reffed the game well but you can’t get that many big calls wrong.
No, that isn't one. Too close, no chance of avoiding, arm not in an unnatural position. In my opinion. The two handed shove on the other hand - our whole row stood in unison and shouted penalty.
The ball it his arm at pace, from extremely close range and it was at a natural angle. No way that's a penalty and we'd have had to be very fortunate to get it.
Note to self check your facts I nearly did but I thought Archey wouldn't do that to me as young uns say my bad.
Awful referee only thing he got right was their penalty, not convinced all four of ours were definite pens but some were
Well i saw 2 deliberate hand balls plus at least one foul in the area plus near the end when he did give us a free kick just outside the area on west stand side, he paced 10 yards out and then sprayed his shaving cream 2 yards in front of where he stopped and then when he stopped Blackpool taking a throw in and just stood for 2 minutes staring into space, he wasn't talking to anyone there was no substitutions happening, nobody was injured i thought it was Willard reincarnated
I didn't want to believe it but i think the same might be happening here , that happened in Italy i honestly think referees plus the VAR teams should be investigated. Plus i know the PGMOL is supposed to look after the referees but surely the FA and the EFL must realise that everything is not right in their completioms so why dont they do anything or are they as bad