Just catching up on yesterday's games. How the **** did Chelsea's equaliser happen? The lino gave Southampton a free kick and the ref played the advantage for Chelsea. What the ****? He must have not realised which way the lino had actually given it, but why did the lino just accept that? Surely he could have brought the ref's attention back.
Solved in instant if all clubs stopped this pathetic kicking the ball into touch because a player has fell on the floor usually faking an injury. The referee should be the only man on the pitch who can stop play.
^^^^this^^^^ If you kick the ball out the oppos get the throw in. WTF do they give it back? If the Ref thinks the game should be stopped he can blow his whistle at any point. Then restart play with a drop ball. A proper drop ball, where two players compete for possession. That was a good goal. What's the problem?
If it happens then usually the opposition team allow the ball to be walked into the net, sportsmanship! I've only ever seen it once where the opposition team were wasting time against Hull & kicked it out for one of their own injuries, when we took the throw in, it was Deano who hit it to score because he was pissed off with them. I have a feeling it was v Bradford, but can't be sure.
That ref must have been persuasive. Whatever he said to the Braintree lot took them from pulling the team off the pitch to totally accepting the decision and carrying on as normal. I agree the convention is daft and refs should take charge of whether the game is stopped, which they usually do anyway if the players haven't already. But as the convention currently is to give the ball back they were right to be annoyed. The commentators seemed biased when they said it was an innocent pass and the keeper left it. Yeah he did because it was 10 feet over his head! Anyway this happened a couple of years ago with Leroy Fer for Norwich against Cardiff but the ref over-ruled it somehow.
