I love our managers new style of play and can only thank the fact that matches are not that important for us after this referee let himself be swayed constantly at Sunderlands ground. Their 1st goal, Seri gets fouled and referee waves play-on for Sunderlands 1st goal *incidently the published SKY highlights of the game do not show this controversial incident leading to the goal being scored, only the breakaway afterwards 2nd goal, official highlights show a breakaway but appears to be cut short with two plays on the floor but not the collision 3rd goal, their striker simply doesn't use his right foot, keeping it up and not putting it down onto the ground as you would naturally walk/run, turning his body and going down. This referee gives a penalty to an obvious bookable dive. 4th goal after the referee had brought Sunderland back into the game numerous times was fine. With the exception of compounded negative events brought on by the referee the players were amazingly resilient to his performance. Hull City highlights here :
Agreed, but I think Traore was body checked for the second after he lost the ballk and chased to get it back.
The commentator said he slipped, watch Seri's footing, he did not slip. I should point out that in the picture Seri had control of the ball and the opposition's leg blocking Seri had not made any contact with the ball as he went into Seri
Live I thought Seri slipped, but it's clear from the picture and the replay that it's their players right knee that brings him down. At the time I thought Clark stumbled. The highlights show clearly that TerryDDolan is correct. Clark cheated. Should not have been a penalty but a booking. Their 2nd goal, when Traore loses the ball, he tries to get back to tackle their man but is deliberately taken out. We were very badly done to.
I thought he was fouled while watching it live, but having watched the replay he wasn’t touched, he just slipped.
We’ve been robbed all season, we shouldn’t have conceded a single goal at all if the officials could do their jobs properly.
Clark clearly dived. Stroud was about 20 yards behind the play and looking through a sea of legs. How he saw it... God, only knows. Clark's a good player though. I see transfer rumours suggest he's been touted by Palace as a replacement for Zaha.
