Referee was shocking both ways. I was told by another City fan that in one of the touchline incidents he'd seen Brady stamp on one of their players so the fact he lasted to be subbed was fortunate. McLean I would have sent off for the incident where he got booked. The initial tackle was fine, right foot took the ball. Left leg was above it but held back, still not a booking even if it made contact. What McLean seemed to do though was drive that left foot at the Watford player's knee after the tackle had been made, and it didn't look friendly or accidental. Had he made the contact it looked like he wanted to it could easily have seriously injured their player. Now onto their players, I forget the exact timing of each but Yeates had two late challenges in the first half and only got told to calm down once when either could have been a booking. I don't know who it was on Rosenior in front of West Stand but a shout of "any later and it'd have been next game" sounded about right. The incident with Fryatt and two of their defenders chasing the ball was ablatant obstruction and we had the free kick given against us. Their soft lad at left back who'd been booked in the incident when Brady got booked got told with 25 minutes left to stop timewasting with the ref gesturing to his pocket. He then got told at least 5 more times to hurry up. The referee had lost all control and Dickinson knew it, if you're on a booking and you think the referee has got any bottle you don't repeat the same offence 5 times after you've been warned about a 2nd card. The goalkeeper outside of the area thing, his right foot was inside the area, the ball and the left foot were both outside the area, and at one point he had the right foot off the ground. If the player's only contact with the pitch is outside the area, and the ball is outside the area does it matter that his other foot is hovering over the pitch inside the area? If anyone who wasn't there doubts that the timewasting by them was imaginary, have you ever seen a team score a late winner and then directly copy the goal celebration the opposition have used in order to take the piss out of them when all the celebration consisted of was the entire team going and standing in the corner? And there's another one for the ref, Cairney got booked for the celebration, but only after he'd rushed over to book someone else and been told by the linesman to do one and he'd walked back to the halfway line looking for someone else to book.
Yes and picked up Yellow Cards for it. If my memory serves me Barmby and Myhill. Loach should of had at least one and every throw in took ages. Hats off to the boys for giving Watford a taste of their own medicine after the third goal. Surprised the ref didn't card one of them for timewasting
agreed. this ^^^^^^^^^^ just goes to show that bully boy tactics can be beaten by footballers. shame deano was not playing he would have loved to get stuck into some of watfords players. had a word with eustace after the game and passed on ian ashbees regards (well something along those lines anyway-remember play-off game @ watford lol). this game proved that city can win in any type of game,. imo,.
the best revenge was the winner from koren. scored in time added on for TIME WASTING. JUSTICE INDEED.
Interesting. But what I couldn't understand yesterday was why none of the players complained about Burnley's second half spoiling tactics. Did anyone else notice in that second half that Wallace took all the corners and mysteriously he was always on the opposite side of the pitch to where the corner was to be taken? I think this is all down to the fact we STILL.have no natural leader in the squad. We are also far too NICE. People seem proud of the fact we are top of the fair play table. I for one am very disappointed by it. We need more aggression in that squad.
Their goalkeeper was seriously taking the piss. Nothing wrong with a little gamesmanship, but he was delaying from the first goal kick. The one late on in the game where he placed the ball, went back and had a drink, then thought about taking the kick was unbelievable. To be honest, it's not that Burnley did it that riles me - it's that at no point did the ref even tap his arm or give them a hint he was watching them for timewasting.
The whole crowd were making it clear what was going on but he chose to ignore it until the 94th minute, like they always do. Yet when we were winning late on at Elland Road this season, Amos got booked literally for taking the kick from where he wanted rather than where Diouf placed it down, which every single keeper does for every goal kick. Even if he was in a hurry for us to score he'd have placed it where he wanted it taking from, and it's his right. Increidble that he got booked for that when so many keepers at the KC get away with far worse. Very interesting that it was the same ref again Ricardo!
How many goal kicks did he take second half anyway?? Just shows how ****e our shooting was. Mind you how long do we take over throw ins?
Very true. Our shooting was ****e yesterday, we didn't really have any massive chances but the decent chances we did make we ****ed them right up, and Simpson was so fed up he just started shooting from ridiculous places. And we do take far too long on throw-ins indeed.
